Kevin Lima to take on Candy Land

[Pyrox]

if done right, this could be great....heck, even if it's dumb I'd probably rent it

 

[zeptron]

Oh my God. I was I just thinking about them making a Candyland movie the other day. Except I thought it should be directed by Tim Burton.

 

[terry78]

It's not really all that complex....it's a land, made out of ****ing candy. The inhabitants are somewhat candy-like, others are more human. I know the candy manufacturers can not wait for this **** to be released so they can get merchandising rights.

 

[That-Guy]

I can't believe that Hollywood has turned to board games as it's new looting ground.

A few adaptations I'd like to see:

Hungry Hungry Hippos
Mouse Trap
Uno
Paper Football
Tic Tac Toe
Checkers

 

[Timstuff]

I'm still holding out for Hi-Ho Cherry-O or Pictionary.

 

[GhostPoet]

MONOPOLY THE MOVIE

Starring Charlie Sheen as...THE BOOT.

 

[Majik1387]

Actually last I heard, Scarlett Johanssan is set to star in the Monopoly movie.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I would love to see a live action version of "Madden NFL Football"

 

[WolfCypher]

I have seriously suggested the Superbowl showing at theatres. How this is possible? Not my problem.

 

[terry78]

I would love to see a live action version of "Madden NFL Football"

The trailer for that would just be two minutes of Madden screaming.

"BOOM! I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS THINKIN' TRYING THAT PASS!

"I GOTTA SAY, THE FOX GOT INTO THE HENHOUSE DURING THAT LAST DOWN!"

" KA-BLAM!!! HE WENT DOWN LIKE A SACK OF POTATOES!"

 

[Timstuff]

I bet the trailer will look something like this.

 

[tyler-durden]

This could probably be kind of good or total crap, but it should be in CGI, I see it as being a childrens adventure, like the spiderwick chronicles or bridge to terabithia.

 

[Watson]

EXCLUSIVE: First Tasty Details On Hasbro’s Big Screen ‘Candy Land’


Published by Eric Ditzian on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 11:41 am.

Adaptations, sequels, reboots — nary a day goes by without news of some newfangled iteration of entertainment properties big and small, beloved and forgotten. You can’t be blamed for yawning in the face of all this unoriginality. Yet the burgeoning big screen version of Hasbro’s “Candy Land” board game should be a lesson to every would-be producer: assemble enough top-tier talent and even the most jaded cinemagoer has got to get excited.


The “Candy Land” script is being penned by “Tropic Thunder” scribe Etan Cohen and directed by Kevin Lima, the helmer behind the surprisingly good “Enchanted.” After throwing together this stellar crew, the film’s exec producer and CEO of Hasbro Brian Goldner dished out an MTV News exclusive first look at the film’s development — details of which have not been publicly discussed before.


So, er, what the heck is this movie going to be about? “Imagine if you took that basic idea of going to a better place, and then allowed the audience to go to that same place together,” Goldner told us. “But then you come to find out, like every other place that’s promised to just be all better and all sweets and candy, you come to find out there’s actually some controversy there as well, that of course the stars of the movie have to solve for.”
Goldner calls the adventure story/mortality tale “very human and very natural,” although time will tell how natural a fantastical world of chocolate bonbons and rainbow jawbreakers can really be.


Still, he maintains Lima and Cohen “really understand this brand.” In the hands of Cohen, I’m willing to believe most anything is possible. At its core, “Tropic Thunder” contained a complex meta-narrative about Hollywood egos, movie-making machinations and the nature of storytelling itself — all gussied up in the slick veneer of a rollicking action flick. In the hands of a lesser talent, “Thunder” could have turned out incomprehensible, pretentious or, worst of all, boring.


But that sucker rocked, and if Cohen can pull off such a feat — and Lima can so successfully engage audiences in “Enchanted,” yet another tale about a musical princess — why can’t they enliven a board game invented by a nurse who worked in a 1940s polio ward?


“The idea was an escape,” said Goldner. “It was for kids who really couldn’t get up, [so] how could they sort of project to play in this beautiful world of sweets and colors, and take them to a better place.”


Does “Candy Land” give you a psyched-up sweet tooth or a give-me-a-break headache? Can über-talented Cohen and Lima give us a movie for which we’d pay good money?

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/03/03/exclusive-first-tasty-details-on-hasbros-big-screen-candy-land/

When I saw "Etan Cohen" I read Ethan, and spent a long time wondering why one of the Coen brothers would write this film.

True story.

 

[xwolverine2]

who better to direct

 

[Heretic]

I hope that they remain true to the source material and do this property justice, with the complexity and depth that this title deserves.

I hear that they are making a Checkers movie, but its just a cheap American rip-off of Chinese Checkers...and we know that the Asian movies are always better than the American versions.

 

[Watson]

^hehehehe

 

[terry78]

Fanboys are gonna see the teaser trailer and be on the message board like, "OMG why does the gingerbread man only have three gumdrop buttons when he should have four? ****, Lima is going to **** up this franchise, and they are not getting one cent of my money!"

 

[That-Guy]

Fanboys are gonna see the teaser trailer and be on the message board like, "OMG why does the gingerbread man only have three gumdrop buttons when he should have four? ****, Lima is going to **** up this franchise, and they are not getting one cent of my money!"

...and the candy cane man had better be perma-swirl...

 

[:eek:]

Kung Fu Panda Writers Visit Candy Land

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
March 28, 2011

Universal's Candy Land film is moving forward with writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berg (Kung Fu Panda and the upcoming Kung Fu Panda 2) coming aboard to tackle the latest draft of the script, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter.

Kevin Lima, who was first attached to the project back in 2009, is still set to direct the film, based on the Hasbro board game about a fantasy world made of sugary treats.

Previously, Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder) and Chris Morgan (Wanted) worked on the script for the project, which still has no official start date. The film is one of many planned board game adaptations, the others which include Ouija, Monopoly, and Battleship.



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[:eek:]

An Ambitious "Candy Land" Movie?

By Garth Franklin Tuesday May 24th 2011 07:27AM
The upcoming film adaptation of the board game "Candy Land" will be less like "My Little Pony" and more along the lines of a major fantasy epic - at least that's the promise of screenwriting partners Glenn Berger and Jonathan Aibel.
Berger, who also penned the upcoming "Kung Fu Panda" sequel, tells Entertainment Weekly that "We envision it as The Lord of the Rings, but set in a world of candy. We don't see it as a movie based on a board game, although it has characters from that world and takes the idea of people finding themselves in a world that happens to be made entirely of candy where there are huge battles going on. We are going for real comedy, real action, and real emotions at stake."
The game itself doesn't have any particular backstory or rules of play, leaving it ripe for all kinds of interpretations.

 

[SoulManX]

An Ambitious "Candy Land" Movie?

By Garth Franklin Tuesday May 24th 2011 07:27AM
The upcoming film adaptation of the board game "Candy Land" will be less like "My Little Pony" and more along the lines of a major fantasy epic - at least that's the promise of screenwriting partners Glenn Berger and Jonathan Aibel.
Berger, who also penned the upcoming "Kung Fu Panda" sequel, tells Entertainment Weekly that "We envision it as The Lord of the Rings, but set in a world of candy. We don't see it as a movie based on a board game, although it has characters from that world and takes the idea of people finding themselves in a world that happens to be made entirely of candy where there are huge battles going on. We are going for real comedy, real action, and real emotions at stake."
The game itself doesn't have any particular backstory or rules of play, leaving it ripe for all kinds of interpretations.

Lords of the Candy Land

 

[Rowsdower!]

They need to make it like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus

Now THAT I would go to see.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

Johnny Depp could be in the movie as The Candy King.

 

[zeptron]

Johnny Depp could be in the movie as The Candy King.

That would most likely happen if Tim Burton were directing. Or he'd probably be Mr Mint.

Burton would also probably cast his wife as Queen Frostine.

 

[KenK]

I can't believe that Hollywood has turned to board games as it's new looting ground.

Please watch Clue, then kindly shut your ****e mouth, m'kay?!