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Hanks To Play A Toy And An Astronaut As Mattel’s MAJOR MATT MASON!!
I am – Hercules!!
Tom Hanks needs to get back in space!
The actor is developing a movie based on Mattel’s satellite-dwelling astronaut action figure Major Matt Mason. It’s with Universal, the same studio that launched the “Toy Story” star into “Apollo 13.”
“Mission To Mars” screenwriter Graham Yost, who collaborated with Hanks on “From The Earth To The Moon,” kicks in the screenplay.
If the Lightyear-esque doll doesn’t ring a bell, it’s because Mattel stopped manufacturing Matt in the 1970s.
Sounds more fun than another sequel to “The DaVinci Code,” am I right?
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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FIRST! EAT IT ...
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Polar Express doesn't count.
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that wasn't as satisfying as I thought it would be... DAMN YOU MICHAEL BAY!!!!
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Damm, why didn't Schwarzenegger ever buy the rights to DOC SAVAGE so he and James Cameron could make it. Savage looks as old as Arnie so it would still be perfect!
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MMM prices will skyrocket.
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The movie that ripped off every sci-fi movie from 2001 to Star Trek IV and capped it all with an alien that sheds a tear for mankind just like that Native American from the anti-littering PSA.
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i used to love a buzz and play with woody
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http://tinyurl.com/cgqu2x
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Mar 24, 2009 11:17:30 PM CDT
George Clooney for Captain Lazer, Major Matt Mason's friend
by chuck_chuckwalla
Captain Lazer was my Buzz Lightyear when I was a kid. George Clooney looks just like him.
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I would love to see him do a balls out, broad comedy.
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I still have one of those toys. It used to be my Aunts and she gave it to me when I was a wee tyke. This movie would be kind of surreal.
p.s. In risking the wrath of the great Hercules, Angels & Demons is NOT a sequel. People who don't know any better could take that statement the wrong way.
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I got damn near the entire collection one Christmas. It was my favorite thing to play with for years.
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...comes chronologically before the DaVinci book. However, A&D has been rewritten for the screen to serve as sequel.
Loved Major Matt when I was a kid, had Sgt. Storm too. But the damn wire armatures would break so easily. Doesn't mean I wouldn't want a reissue... -
...until the line got tangled and jammed in the pack, anyway.
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Mar 24, 2009 11:45:07 PM CDT
I loved Watchmen but damnit Hanks should have been The Comedian.
by thecomedian
Supposedly he wanted the part at one point and was even going to produce it. That would have really given the "Forrest Gump with Superheroes" vibe Snyder was going for a whole other level of meta.
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Tom Hanks seems a bit old for this kind of stuff, but we'll see.
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Tom Hanks was Woody.
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Old man Hanks beat him to the table
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I see this as a retro styled space adventure, could be interesting I guess...
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I wanna see Hanks riding one of those.
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Thought there would be more Buzz and Woody references here. This character looks like the Love Child of said pairing.
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Looking at those toys took me right back in time, I'm playing with my friends, those toys, 40 years ago....
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Mar 25, 2009 1:13:23 AM CDT
Wow! And that motherfucker actually looks like MASON!
by bob cryptonight
I hope they keep all the gear looking the same as the toys! That was cool shit!
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Frank Darabont was teamed up with Schwartzenegger to do DOC SAVAGE and Frank wrote the script but, at the time, it was deemed too expensive. Eventually the option ran out. I'd love to read that script!!!
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crossover?
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Mar 25, 2009 3:13:06 AM CDT
Is richpassion.com the best site to look for quality single?
by iamalice1
Who knows?
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(was born in '73), but I'm glad these boomer and tweener producers, directors, and actors are, in this instance, going back to what they are familiar with, instead of royally screwing a beloved gen-x property, of which they have no understanding of, or feelings of nostalgia toward.
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shake your hand. Well said. My comment following this sentence will
be a cliff notes to your post. Who gives a fuck. The oldies are being threatened by the Gen-Xers kingdom come and want to squeeze in their last milking of their childhood adaptations. -
Wish I could get my hands on it. That film will most likely get made and become a small film with an unknown star. You need a Schwarzenegger or Spielberg to make it a huge event film. I wish they would greenlight it with a simple 80 million budget and push it to almost an R rating making the film "Savage" in nature. Rambo meets Indy.
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I remember that thing. I really wanted that when I was a kid. I ended up with Johnny West...which was still cool...
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Starring Sam Elliot and Gene Hackman.
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...to hopefully rid the rest of the general public of the memory of that "Slutz" movie. And also a "Robosapien" one that is like "E.T.", but with a robot. But this still sounds good.
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Mar 25, 2009 9:46:44 AM CDT
Insane marketing needed. He is unknown in 99% of the world.
by damien chowder
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Of course DC and Marvel would never let CA turn into their big heroes.
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One of the worst, hackey, most derivative movies I've ever seen.
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He's fat enough. Or, at least, he was.
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Fuck this shit give me the burbs part 2: the revenge of the red haired fucked up klopek guy.
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BEST XMAS EVER! Until I got the Atari 2600, that is. So, will one of his arms dangle at an odd angle (like when the interior wire snapped inside)?Misson To Mars question: who wears the most annoying eyeliner? Gary Sinise in that or Nestor Carbonell in anything? I vote Sinise. Looks like he was heading out for a night of disco, instead of Mars.
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. . . Tom Hanks plays a Mason!
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You KNOW you WANT it!!!
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Mar 26, 2009 3:49:12 AM CDT
Aw Man...you got to be kidding! Hollywood has dropped to new low
by ultra menace
Tim ALLEN as Sgt. Storm.
Seth Rogen as Doug Davis
Chris Tucker as Lt. Jeff Long and don't forget Scorpio and Calisto. Plus while they are at it add the complete line up of the Colorforms Outer Spacemen. There are no real new ideas anymore in Hollywood. I can see why Alan Moore hates that place. -
if the stuff isn't so reimagined as to be unrecognizable. Get ready for more retro-classic toys that will make collecting the originals harder -- longer ebay searches. Will they have the Firebolt cannon?
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You know that'll be in the movie. Major Matt Mason was one of the three top space-toy lines of my youth, the other two being Zeroids robots and Mattel Space Men. Those were good days.
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Guess we're about the same age. All three of those toys were favorites. And no one I know remember the space men. I had The Man from Saturn and Man from Jupiter. Yeah, they had better have the crawler!
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HOLLYWOOD REALLY IS OUT OF IDEAS.
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Mar 26, 2009 8:55:20 PM CDT
A high colonic sounds more fun than a sequel to Da Vinci Code
by curious jorge
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They don't make toys like this anymore. Space Station, XRG1 Space Glider (worked ONLY with a MM figure;) how great. Just do NOT SCREW WITH IT LIKE 'Thunderbirds.' GACK.
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Major Matt Mason was the greatest toy line ever made! I had a huge collection when I was 5 and I wish I still had them.
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He walks downstairs, alone or in pairs...
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