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Platinum Dunes' OUIJA Movie Has Writers!!
Merrick here...
Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, who wrote TRON LEGACY, have been summoned to script the Michael Bay produced movie based on Hasbro's OUIJA boards. David Berenbaum (THE HAUNTED MANSION, ELF) was previously writing this - guess that didn't work out.
The studio is looking at the project as a supernatural action-adventure movie. It is possible that certain rules of the game — never use it alone, never use it in a graveyard, always say good-bye — figure into the plot.
...says THR HERE.
Besides writing TRON LEGACY, Kitsis and Horowitz were also Co-Executive Producers/Writers on the ABC series LOST.
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This movie will suck. FACT.
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I'll refrain from making any Beastie Boys jokes...
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And I am not ashamed.
Seriously though, after THE EXORCIST and WITCHBOARD - why bother?? -
And you know this!
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And you know this, MAAAAAAN!!!
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(1) Never get it wet,
(2) Never expose it to sunlight,
(3) Never feed it after midnight.
Hang on, I might have got a bit confused there... -
All signs point to yes!
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someone to make a feature length version of Ren & Stimpy's "Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence".
...I mean as long as Hollywood is adapting every bullshit board game that ever went on toy store shelves... -
Fuck that. If The Script Doctor doesn't have his hand in this, I'm not seeing it.
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Nov 02, 2009 12:13:14 PM CST
Re: Does the feeding after mid night rule apply to eastern or pa
by ganymede3010
I must know this forbidden knowledge?
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Ah, wait. They did. And it fucking RULED!!!
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...And don't call it NEW JACK CITY next time.
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Tony Jaa kicks your head off if you get five 6s...
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In two parts?
Part 1:
http://tinyurl.com/y9mglfg
Part 2:
http://tinyurl.com/ydg29m5
Crappy, but I wonder if this new Ouija movie will be even this good? Hahahaha. -
This will be an jap-horror version of JUMANJI.
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That's lame! I assumed they were public domain.
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He said his earlier protests about this movie were all due to a clerical error.
He thought you said Weezie Boards.
Cue: Kurt Russel, laughing. -
...another victim of plastic surgery as I recall, but I'm grateful to her for the legacy she left us in the 80's.
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Nov 02, 2009 12:46:14 PM CST
How much is Platnium Dunes paying AICN to drop their name?
by glory_fades_immaxfischer
Funny...this is the only site that does that..anywhere. Nor do you see "Dreamworks, Paramount or Fox" before other headlines..hmmmmm
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...it had a Ouija board and everything!
http://tinyurl.com/yl4hbdy
http://tinyurl.com/ygjk94v
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That Tawny Kitaen!
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Please.
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Chutes and Ladders. makes die hard look like candyland...wait, they are doing that movie too aren't thay?
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..your turn..
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I would support this movie if all the supernatural stuff was shown to have mundane reasons (bad guys tricking people), the hero of the story explained ouija boards as using the ideomotor effect and while board users were blind-folded, their ouija board was rotated and the session produced gibberish.
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Who knew?
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...Do you also only support Christmas movies where Santa trips over the sofa, his beard falls off and it's just dad, and he's drunk, and he pees himself while he's on the floor? Just asking. Oh about this movie? Yeah, this is going to blow so hard theaters will have to install seatbelts.
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Or was it "Ants in the Pants?"
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It's one of those stories that get passed around but not nearly enough to be considered an urban legend.Anyways it revovles around a kid ,in the version I heard, teenage guy, who had borrowed a ouija board from his buddy and they began "contacting" spirits. After a while the kid moves on to something else but develops horrible nightmares involving demons trying to kill him in his sleep. Fast forward a little bit further ( i forget if it's weeks or months)and he decides to tell his buddy about the dreams and shit. His buddy claims that it's bull so they start using the board again. This time the board spells out that it is in fact a demon and that he will not hurt the young man if he'll only let him take over his body to get a few things done. The kids experiance some kind of activity, i think it's books falling off a shelf or glasses breaking or something, so the kid goes to his mom. The kid's mom has just started going to church and calls the youth pastor who tells her they need to burn the board and get rid of it. This point in the story my memory kids kind of fuzzy,but I remember that someone in the story burns the ouija board and the damn thing starts screaming and moaning like it's in pain. There's supposed to be audio of it floating around some where.Even though it might be total crap,it sounds like a better idea to me that what ever Platinum Dunes will come up with.
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I don't find supernatural stuff... ghosts, demons, angels, gods... in movies a big turn off, even though none if it is real. Movies are ALL fake, so it's just a question of what's being faked.
The only time I get really annoyed is when a movie has demons, God, magic, ESP, etc., and yet STILL claims to be "based on a true story". -
Thats it. The studio scratched their heads, asked themselves if there were any successful movies based around a game, thought of JUMAJI, and then will apply that formula scene foir scene to OUIJA: THE MOVIE! Your worth every penny, studio-guy!
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"...Even though it (the story)might be total crap..." Ya Think?
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I just have a concern about "You see, Ouija boards put you into contact with demonic forces!" fringe groups.
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Follow the Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity strategy. I want to see a hi def camera recording the Ouiji board at all times... maybe even in a split screen portion with the Ouija board on one side and the sleeping characters on the other characters. And while they're tossing and turning, SUDDENLY, the word thing starts to move ALL ON ITS OWN! It write's out "YOU'RE ALL DEAD" then proceeds to move off the board and falls onto the floor. Meanwhile on the other side of the screen one of the couple starts hogging the blanket, making the other one feel colder (FORESHADOWING). Back on the other side, the magnifying glass ouija board reader thing begins moving again all on it's own, across the room, the goes up along the side of the wall! LIKE SPIDER-MAN!!! And the UP the STAIRS! Then before you know it, it's ABOVE the couple ON THE CEILING! And we stare down at them from both sides of the screen angle of them form teh side and facing the ouija board reader on the ceiling, the other side throgh the looking glass of the ouija board reader thing gazing down focusing on them with it's convex lens! What Juxtaposition!!! Then SUDDENLY.... And now I know what you're thinking... who the hell is moving the cameras to follow this thing around? I'll tell you... SPOILER>>>>>>>>>> ANOTHER GHOST!!! <<<<<<<<<<<d I do Hollywood?!!
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Oh I'm sorry, did I make that joke on another thread already?
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Har dee har har.
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Actual board game.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Wiggily_%28game%29
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http://tinyurl.com/unclewiggly
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Supernatural possibilities or not aside, the Ouija board is a device that can easily lead to psychological illness, especially schizophrenia and depression. I messed around with it when I was a teen in the 80's and ended up really fucked up. Took me years to get over the bullshit I caused in my own self. I'm sure plenty of people have no problems like that, but for a device sold in a game store largely selling kids toys, you would at the least think someone should put some sort of warning in the box about the possible psychological problems that can come from messing with the stupid thing. Its also a big fucking waste of time, mental masturbation. I hope this movie does terrible.
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religious convictions that make me not want to see this movie...
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Doesn't anyone remember this movie? ;)
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..adapting cereals.
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Back in high school, a bunch of people waiting for their physics class to start would try to solve the cube while someone else counted seconds on his wrist-watch.
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that EVP was lame.
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Let's make all random toys into movies. Ohh, maybe BIG WHEELS: RACE TO THE END OF THE DRIVEWAY
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And he just points to things and decides to green light a movie about them, before they even know if someone will write it.
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that headline should have had the word "think" but now that I left it out while calling someone dumb I feel sad.
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Classic and definitive Ouija board movie. Scared the hell out of me back then. Still holds up.
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Sure we don't have a displacement of blame there? On another topic, anybody remember the Jaws game? You had to take pieces of junk out of a great white shark's mouth with a stick, and when enough was removed, the shark's mouth would slam shut. Now there's a game that would make a great movie: Jaws.
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Three girls sitting around the Ouija board, giggling."Oh look, it's moving!""What's it saying?""B. It's a letter B!""Ooh, this is spooky! What's next?""O""Come on you guys, you're moving it, aren't you?""No, I'm not, I swear!""O""Boo? Come on, this is a joke, right?""M""Is that it?""It's not moving anymore.""B O O M ? What the hell is that supposed to--"Suddenly, the Ouija board EXPLODES!
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of that game. Not sure if it was based on the John Sayles scripted "Alligator," but it was a fun time.
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The Ouija board doesn't do shit to anyone. I'm sorry about what happened to you. But it's like you said...you did it to yourself. If that's a reason for people to start putting warning labels on Ouija boards, then they'd might as well start putting warning labels on videogames and water pistols.
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the movie is just a trick to move more board games!
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Shit like this makes you long for yet another remake of an 80's franchise
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Who cares!!!!!!!!! Who cares!!!!!!!!
This movie will suck a big fat dick!!! No doubt in my mind. It's completely based on taking as much money from complete fucking retards pockets are possible. Nothing spacial here. Nope, nothing. Terrible, completely unoriginal idea with no hope of being good. Why not remake Exorcist 3?! I know that makes no sense and neither does this. Bay can go fuck himself. His a piece of garage and has zero talent as a filmmaker. Yeah, anyone with a half way decent knowledge of film could do what he does because it only takes a ton of money to have great special fxs and pretty images. To make a great film you need nothing but talent. He doesn't have talent that's why he needs 100 million dollar budgets to hide the fact that he doesn't have any talent. I'd love for him to come up with an idea and shoot it himself on HD with a group of actors. I know he couldn't do it. I know it. A talentless hack fagot. Hollywood needs to crumble. Over and out. -
Berg might have some competition here.
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these doofuses, well, we'll see...
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big question
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Print Adaptations And Now Fucking Board Games. Cinema Is Fucking Dead To Me, Long Live Books.
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I don't think one can draw a example from putting waring labels on Ouija boards then they may as well do the same with water pistols or video games. I mean, I don't give a shit about religion, I despise organized religion actually. But if you make a game that claims to be a way to talk to spirits (and I don't believe that is what goes on at all with it), then a waring about the possible mindfucking consequences would be nice. It's easy for you and I'm sure others who've not lived through that kind of fucking hell to sit back and say "ahhh, lets just put warning stickers on water pistols and everything then". But I think that is a real cop out. There are plenty of things in the world that warrant a safety sticker/warning, and plenty of things that don't. If something is potentially psychologically dangerous then a warning isn't too big a deal to ask. I don't care if a bottle of alcohol has a waring label on it, or a bottle of medicine, or if they started selling LSD. It doesn't affect my manhood any like it seems to others. But for children, a game that is sold in a store that caters to children, yeah, I think a fucking little warning about the kind of shit that can come from the damn thing would be nice. Certainly, I'm responsible enough to blame myself and not some spirits for what I lived through. But I had a little fucking help by the people who made the damn thing and advertised it. And if you don't think that people getting mindfucked by it ain't all that common, that is because you have not had to look into it and research it like I once did 20 years ago to help myself out of the shit that it caused. It's more common than you think. All that it is, is a mind trick. Which is what religion is as well.
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When I was a kid my Mom bought a Ouija board at a garage sale. That Saturday night me and my sisters played with it in our living room. We all ended up sleeping in the living room watching movies. There was a big storm that night and our roof leaked and the ceiling collapsed in my bedroom where I would´ve been sleeping if I hadn´t fallen asleep in the living room. My Mom got rid of the Ouija board the next day. True story.
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kudos to recognizing a new AICN meme when you see one. lol.
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Nov 03, 2009 5:55:51 AM CST
That's gonna be the new phrase in every news thread, mark my wor
by mike_d
might as well mark it in the books
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CROSS FIYAAAAAHHH.. CROSS FIYAAAAHH... CRRRROOOSSSSSS FIIIIIIIYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! *YEAH!*
Just think... an extended version of that commercial from the 80's! -
It would be like that "The Startling" episode of Southpark with the Guinea Pigs (and guinea bees, etc). The porn spinoff will have the same name and feature cock gobbling BBW's.
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Ouija boards don't do anything, they are a novelty item made up in the early 1900s to cash in on "spiritualism" that was popular at that time. They are about as real as ectoplasm.
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I'm pretty sure it will suck ass. And my thoughts on a the game itself, fucking waste of time.
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i can never watch that sex scene in ghostbusters without getting a boner since then. yes, i said boner.
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