New Line says THE KING OF KONG is ready to scale the tall buildings of Hollywood!!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. THE KING OF KONG is one of the best movies of the year. The drama is cinematic, the classic pairing of villain and hero. It doesn't matter that it's a documentary, it's so theatrical, the protagonist so likable and the antagonist so slimy, that you invest yourself into the story just like you would something like STAR WARS. Illuminating the seedy underbelly of classic arcade game competition, the documentary focuses on an incredibly likable guy by the name of Steve Wiebe. He's a school teacher, humble and kind. He has a dream. His dream is to get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the top scorer on the classic DONKEY KONG. He has the talent and he ends up taking the top place after much practice. Enter Billy Mitchell, the best douche-bag the screen has seen since the likes of Burke in ALIENS. He holds the top score and has based his life around it. He's famous within the competitive gaming community, he's well known in his home town and has his fingers dipped into all aspects of politics (of the official arcade game world, of course). His ego's as big as his mullet and he tries everything he can to keep this school teacher from taking his score, going to some amazingly shitty and questionable lengths. CLICK HERE TO READ MY REVIEW!!! The documentary was a hit at Slamdance, got picked up by Picturehouse for distribution and New Line, Picturhouse's sister company, has the rights to remake it. And remaking it they are. Fast tracking it, even. Michael Bacall has been brought in to write the script. Bacall is an actor as well as a writer/director, but he's attached to some great properties, including Edgar Wright's SCOTT PILGRIM movie. Seth Gordon, who directed the documentary, is directing the feature film version. I'm saying this right now. I am no Joss Whedon fanboy, either, but Nathan Fillion was born to play Steve Wiebe. The resemblance is uncanny and Fillion has the same automatic likability Wiebe has. And I'm sure he'd jump at the chance to play someone down to Earth and egoless. This character doesn't have a sharp tongue. I'm just sayin'. Free advice is all.