Oh lordy! They must be running out of original ideas - Board Games to be made into movies

[LynneSin]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080220/en_nm/hasbro_universal_dc_1;_ylt=Ajhvfivw6TpjhbK.ojhcrAQE1vAI

Hasbro, Universal pact may produce Monopoly movie


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hasbro Inc on Wednesday said it signed a six-year deal with Universal Pictures for the film company to make at least four movies based on well-known games like Monopoly, Battleship, Candy Land and Ouija.

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The first movie from the deal is to be released in either 2010 or 2011, with Universal releasing at least one film per year thereafter, the companies said.

Universal pictures is part of NBC Universal, which is 80 percent owned by General Electric Co and 20 percent by France's Vivendi.

[terrya]

1. Hey, they already did a movie version of "Clue"

Might as well. There are only so many crappy old television shows to do movie versions.

[krispos42]

2. Well, "Clue" was a decent movie, I thought.

But "Battleship"?

[petronius]

10. Battleship would make a great movie: "B . . . . . 9?"

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"miss."

Imagine how the suspense would build after 2 hours of that...

[krispos42]

20. We'll get John Williams to do the score.

It'll be awesome!

:crazy:

[philosophie_en_rose]

3. Monopoly?

Is this a saga of family violence, created when cheating siblings hide your houses and sneak bills from the banker?

[LostinVA]

8. My wife was once almost knocked out by her sister over the bank in Monopoly

It's a dangerous game.

[LynneSin]

11. Risk was the gamed banned from our family

We take World DOmination very seriously in our household

[LostinVA]

14. I'm not surprised

Freeper.

[Connonym]

17. My family too.

mwahahahaha

[Orsino]

4. Scrabble: The Adventure Beginz

<triple letter score>

[SacredCow]

5. Meh

Monopoly would be pretty predictable as a movie. But Parcheesi- now THERE's a nail-biter!

[Ano Genitus]

6. They made a Ouija board movie. It was called Witchboard, starring Tawny Kitaen.

Also they made a movie called Go, but I do not know if it is based on the ancient Oriental borad game of the same name.

[petronius]

9. Go was unrelated to the board game - drug-fueled teenage

adventure-comedy, IIRC. I enjoyed it...

[AlCzervik]

7. oooohhhh Battleship, i love that game and that could make an interesting movie.

[LynneSin]

12. I can see Robert DeNiro as the head of the US Navy screaming

YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP!!!

[AlCzervik]

16. i can see 2 kids sitting at the kitchen table playing and in the distance the sounds

of expoldy things and then the sounds get louder and louder and closer. I think it could be a fun movie if they did it right.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Oh, good gravy!

[theredpen]

15. Check out "Board Game Reality II" on SomethingAwful's Photoship Phriday

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/board-game-reality2.php

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. I was sooo pissed that they cut the sex scene out of "Candyland".

I asked for my damn money back.

[KamaAina]

19. Bergman's "The Seventh Seal"

in which our hero plays chess with Death.

[no name no slogan]

21. When's the "Twister" movie coming out (not the tornado)

and will it feature Crisco?

[BreweryYardRat]

22. I've GOT to get into screenwriting. God DAMN, they'll fund ANYTHING these days.

Hell, I could repress my perfectionist tendencies, slap some hackwork shit together, and it'd still be better than this.