Finally! Ouija, the game!

[D_Davis]

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

Universal Pictures, Hasbro In 6-Year Partnership

February 20, 2008

Hasbro Inc. (HAS) and Universal Pictures formed a six-year strategic
partnership to produce at least four motion pictures based on brands
such as Monopoly, Candy Land, Ouija, Battleship, Magic, the Gathering
and Stretch Armstrong.

Hasbro, a Pawtucket, R.I., producer of entertainment products, said the
first movie will be released in 2010 or 2011, and Universal Pictures, a
division of Universal Studios, will release at least one film a year
thereafter.

[Stay Puft]

What? That's...

Wait, Stretch Armstrong? NICE.

[megladon8]

Is Ridley Scott still doing Monopoly?

[D_Davis]

What? That's...

Wait, Stretch Armstrong? NICE.

Maybe we'll finally find out if every part of him stretches.

[Spinal]

I already saw this with Tawny Kitaen.

[number8]

Is Ridley Scott still doing Monopoly?

Yes.

[Ivan Drago]

Fuck all those games. I want a Risk movie.

[MadMan]

Yes.Seriously? What the hell?

A movie based on Risk would be pretty cool.

I can't believe movies are being made based on board games. Craziness. I have an interest in seeing all of them of course. And damnit they should make a serious version of Clue also.

[megladon8]

Screw that! The Clue movie we have is brilliant.

[Wryan]

Screw that! The Clue movie we have is brilliant.

YESSSUM!

Ouija, the Game: the Movie! coming to a theatre near you.

[Spinal]

They should make a serious Hungry Hungry Hippos movie. It would be intense.

[MadMan]

Screw that! The Clue movie we have is brilliant.I'll get back to you on that one. I haven't seen it yet. But I've heard good things.

[megladon8]

YESSSUM!

Ouija, the Game: the Movie! coming to a theatre near you.


I loved how many of the lines tied together later in the movie for clever running gags.

MR GREEN: I work for the state department...and I am a homosexual!

*later*

YVETTE: But it's dark upstairs and I'm frightened of the dark. Won't someone come with me?

PROF. PLUM: I will!

COL. MUSTARD: I will!

MR GREEN: No thanks.

[Wryan]

I'll get back to you on that one. I haven't seen it yet. But I've heard good things.

Lord! Go rent it tomorrow. Enough comedy geniuses in it to stock a warehouse.

Also, I recall them doing some quasi-serious versions of the Clue game that were sorta direct-to-video or even take-home vids as part of the game packaging (maybe? I'm not sure, been a long time). They were never that good.

[Wryan]

I loved how many of the lines tied together later in the movie for clever running gags.

MR GREEN: I work for the state department...and I am a homosexual!

*later*

YVETTE: But it's dark upstairs and I'm frightened of the dark. Won't someone come with me?

PROF. PLUM: I will!

COL. MUSTARD: I will!

MR GREEN: No thanks.

"THIS IS WAR PEACOCK! You cannot make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Any cook will tell you that!"

"But look what happened to the cook!"

I have heard it said that a double bill of Clue and Murder By Death would ensure an afternoon of delight and frivolity.

[megladon8]

"THIS IS WAR PEACOCK! You cannot make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Any cook will tell you that!"

"But look what happened to the cook!"


PROF PLUM: What did you do?

MISS SCARLETT: Well, to be perfectly frank, I run a specialized hotel and telephone service which provides the company of a young lady, for a short while.

PROF PLUM: Oh yeah?

[pulls out pen and a pad of paper]

PROF PLUM: What's the phone number?

[Spinal]

Clue is awfully, awfully silly, but the cast sorta kinda makes it work.

[Wryan]

PROF PLUM: What did you do?

MISS SCARLETT: Well, to be perfectly frank, I run a specialized hotel and telephone service which provides the company of a young lady, for a short while.

PROF PLUM: Oh yeah?

[pulls out pen and a pad of paper]

PROF PLUM: What's the phone number?

I heard that Kahn's famous confession scene was actually a botched line-reading that she just friggin went with and nailed something so indescribably funny that they had to keep it in. If you watch the scene, you can see Martin Mull in the background of the shot (that they used) almost beginning to crack.

[Wryan]

Clue is awfully, awfully silly, but the cast sorta kinda makes it work.

Sorta nuthin! :D

[megladon8]

I heard that Kahn's famous confession scene was actually a botched line-reading that she just friggin went with and nailed something so indescribably funny that they had to keep it in. If you watch the scene, you can see Martin Mull in the background of the shot (that they used) almost beginning to crack.


:)

Oh that's great...I love stories like that.

It must have been an absolute riot to make that movie.

[Kurosawa Fan]

They should make a serious Hungry Hungry Hippos movie. It would be intense.

In the ad campaign they could make it out to be a serial killer movie, only the serial killers are the hippos!

[Scar]

I wonder if the Oujia movie will have a guest appearance from Captain Howdy.And I've never seen Clue.

[D_Davis]

They should make a serious Hungry Hungry Hippos movie. It would be intense.

Al Gore could.

Maybe a documentary made by Gore and Herzog...

[Fezzik]

Ah, Clue....good times, good times.

"See? Just like the Mounties, we always get our man."
"Mrs. Peacock was a man?!"

And..my favorite line from Clue

WADSWORTH: Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.

PROFESSOR PLUM: Yes, but now I work for the United Nations.

WADSWORTH: So your work has not changed.

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My friend thinks Candy Land should definitely be porn :p

[Ivan Drago]

They should make a serious Hungry Hungry Hippos movie. It would be intense.

Here you go:

http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_872551_Robot_Chicke n_Hungry_Hungry_Hippos.htm

[ledfloyd]

Screw that! The Clue movie we have is brilliant.

rep.

[rocus]

I wonder if the Stretch Armstrong movie will end with a couple of kids cutting him open to see what's inside that makes him stretch. That's how mine died anyway.

[Fezzik]

I wonder if the Stretch Armstrong movie will end with a couple of kids cutting him open to see what's inside that makes him stretch. That's how mine died anyway.

Wow, i thought I was the only one who did that.

I'm totally repping you for this :)

[Ezee E]

2-7 odds that Burton is mentioned for Candyland?

[MadMan]

2-7 odds that Burton is mentioned for Candyland?Eh they need someone even crazier and trippier than Burton.

[Milky Joe]

yes, yes I did it. I killed Yvette. I... hated... her... SO... much... that, that, that... flames, FLAMES! On the side of my face! Breathing, breath... heaving breaths...

[Wryan]

Probably one of the few bits of comedy I could never get tired of watching. Ever. Ever.

[Fezzik]

Eh they need someone even crazier and trippier than Burton.

Guillermo Del Toro?

Pan's Labyrinth 2: The Maze of Candy

[MadMan]

Guillermo Del Toro?

Pan's Labyrinth 2: The Maze of Candy:lol: I'd be down with that.

[D_Davis]

Takashi Miike's, Candyland

He's the only director in the world who could play it straight, and make it work.

[Sycophant]

Takashi Miike's, Candyland

He's the only director in the world who could play it straight, and make it work.If that happened, fuck camping out, I would move to the theater playing that.

[megladon8]

More developments on Monopoly. (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ie9098baec9eb95cdc85766d63f6 8ce1b)

[Sven]

More developments on Monopoly. (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ie9098baec9eb95cdc85766d63f6 8ce1b)

What a surreal article.

[Grouchy]

This is either the ultimate lack of good ideas or Hollywood has just hit a fucking gold mine.

[Ezee E]

They're saying its because of the big hits Transformers and the upcoming G.I. Joe.

I certainly don't remember a Battleship tv show or action figures.

This is incredibly bizarre. I can't wait to see what it is they come up with, good or bad. It's just too bizarro.

[number8]

Not that strange when you think about it, really. It's just borrowing a title so they can market it with a brand name. Scott has already said that the movie will just be a dark comedy about the cutthroat real estate business. I bet without the title no one would even know it was based on a board game.

[Ezee E]

Not that strange when you think about it, really. It's just borrowing a title so they can market it with a brand name. Scott has already said that the movie will just be a dark comedy about the cutthroat real estate business. I bet without the title no one would even know it was based on a board game.
Moneybags dude better be there. That mustache will give the movie $10 mill in sales.

[KK2.0]

The Clue movie is easy because the game already has all the elements of a classic murder mystery story, but how the Monopoly movie could bring something vaguely resembling the board game?

[megladon8]

The Clue movie is easy because the game already has all the elements of a classic murder mystery story, but how the Monopoly movie could bring something vaguely resembling the board game?


There's already Clue: The Movie from the '80s.

And it's delightful.

[D_Davis]

I'd like to see strip poker made into a movie.

[megladon8]

I'd like to see strip poker made into a movie.


Only starring women, of course.

[number8]

Only starring women, of course.

Boo.

[D_Davis]

Only starring women, of course.

And Asian guys.

[DavidSeven]

McG in final negotiations to direct Quija, the game! (http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/mcg-negotiating-ouija-directing-deal/)

Stretch Armstrong is being directed by Rob Letterman (Shark Tale, Jack Black's Gulliver's Travels) and will star Taylor Lautner.

Candyland is in the middle of rewrites.

Battleship opens May 18, 2012.

Thank you, Universal Studios.

[MadMan]

I forgot to report that during the course of this thread's existence, I did finally see Clue (1985) and yes its both silly, witty, and hilarious.

A Battleship movie? Ouija movie? WTF, Hollywood.

[Ivan Drago]

If Terry Gilliam were to direct Candyland, it'd be the greatest acid trip ever.

[lovejuice]

With his "Mafia" adaptation, the Incite Mill, they are already outgunned by Hideo Nakata.

[Morris Schæffer]

A Battleship movie? Ouija movie? WTF, Hollywood.

Don't forget Sir Ridley Scott + Monopoly!

[MadMan]

Don't forget Sir Ridley Scott + Monopoly!I will go see it, of course. Apparently since according to the consensus I'm a huge fan of his work, I must see every movie he's ever made. I'm continuing this quest. ;)

[Dead & Messed Up]

We all laughed, and this fucking movie made $70 mil worldwide on a $5 mil budget.

And I just saw it second-run, and it's easily the worst horror film I've seen in years, at least the worst movie I've seen this year, and almost certainly in the running for least interesting horror film of all time. This is a film that would lose nothing were it performed by Popsicle sticks in a shoebox.

It is the absence of story, the absence of character. An insult. Its utter apathy as morally reprehensible as the most barren of torture films.

The team behind this movie is now remaking The Birds.