Here’s your top 10 games for the Apple iPhone, with none other than Monopoly making not just one but two appearances. Star Wars: Trench Run managed to crack the top 10, but coming in last is not what we expect from the Star Wars license.
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It’s bad enough Hollywood is embarking upon such cinematic crap-fests as a Battleship, Monopoly and Candyland, but now we can add the classic strategy game Risk to the list of bankrupt ideas.
We’ve got Sony to blame for this latest fiasco.
Property, which pits players against one another in a quest to annex all of the world’s territories, has become desirable thanks to the box office success of the Paramount adaptations of Hasbro’s Transformers and G.I. Joe.
“The strategic thinking and the tactical gambles that players must take in the game are what make Risk a classic, thoroughly engaging game,” said Columbia prexy Doug Belgrad. Those elements translated into an action-packed, thrilling story are what will make this a uniquely exciting movie.”
Yes, these execs actually believe their own bullshit. Can we just get around to announcing Pin-The-Tail-On-The-Donkey and Tic-Tac-Tough?
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Hasbro has licensed several of their board games to Hollywood in recent months, including Candy Land, Battleship, Monopoly and Stretch Armstrong. I guess the thinking is, people flocked to Transformers and that was based on a toy so how can we go wrong with board games? Of course, the fact that people were clamoring for a Transformers movie for years has a lot to do with its success, but is anyone really sitting around wishing for a Battleship or Monopoly movie? No.
Don’t let logic step in the way of licensing money, though. Brian Goldner, CEO of Hasbro, was at a screening of the G.I. Joe movie and was asked about the status of the various board game movies. In defense of Monopoly, Mr. Goldner offered up this executive gem:
“Monopoly” has this wonderful history. If you’ll remember, “Monopoly” was literally invented at The [Great] Depression, so that idea, this fiction that’s really there, this non-fiction fiction that’s really there in the game and in the fact that there’s such great roots to this brand and the history of the brand, we bring this to life with a story
about families.
Yes, non-fiction fiction. Brilliant.
In defense of Battleship, he said this:
Oh, I’m not going to tell you quite yet but I will say that it’s everything you could imagine in a “Battleship” movie. It’s really a phenomenal idea.
It’s everything you could imagine. Okay.
In defense of Stretch Armstrong, this pearl of wisdom:
Stretching as a superpower brings a lot of humor to the idea so imagine a big humorous super-powered, super-human kind of movie.
Check please!
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Just when I think Hollywood can’t sink any lower in developing brain-dead projects, they surprise me with an idea so bold in its lameness that I am forced to stand in awe at their sheer ridiculousness. Apparently, the suits in Hollywood are in the throes of board game mania as fodder for script ideas, evidenced by last years announcement that Ridley Scott was planning a movie based on Monopoly. Not to be outdone, Kevin Lima, who directed Enchanted, has signed on for a Candy Land movie, based on a script by Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder).
Can Tick-Tack-Toe be far behind?
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