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There's Gonna Be A MAGIC 8 BALL Movie!!
Merrick here...
Mike Fleming over at Deadline says Paramount is developing a film based around Mattel's Magic 8 Ball toy/game/thing.
Paramount has extended its business with Mattel, optioning the venerable Magic 8 Ball to use as the basis for a live action adventure film.
...says Deadline HERE.
I've already made my disdain for these kind of product-to-film adaptations quite evident. But, to play The Devil's Advocate here for one moment, I can kinda/sorta imagine how a Magic 8 Ball film might possibly work. At least the Magic 8 Ball is a device, a tool if you will, around which a reasonably amusing story might be developed. It's still a crass gimmick, but it's a less esoteric gimmick than some of the other "game movie" concepts we've recently heard about.
The picture will be scripted by Jon Gunn and John Mann.
While the Magic 8 Ball conceit has been adapted into many different iterations (i.e. fortune telling devices featuring characters from various franchises & whatnot), the original "classic" version is still available HERE
. Every time I use one of these things the little floaty/flippy word cube gets stuck on its edge so I can never see the answer to my question. Symbolic.
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enuff said
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Why WOULDN'T they make a magic 8 Ball movie?
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I´m actually even more retarded for taking the time to click on the article and read it.
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I've been waiting forever for Hollywood to get a clue and get this film made.
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Yet another reason to hate, hate, HATE Hollywood.
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Dammit.
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In production:
Speak 'N Hell: 3-D
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I'm still shocked that anyone paid money for the rights to "Battleship". It's not even a title that couldn't be used without paying for it, and plenty of other movies have used the line "you sank my battleship" as a joke, so what's left to mine from that premise? I kind of get the idea of doing Monopoly or Life as a Jumanji kind of flick, but Battleship just throws me.
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Well, that's better.
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All Right!
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How much later? Damn you, eight ball!
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Apr 29, 2010 10:11:32 AM CDT
So, it's going to take TWO Jo(h)ns to write this movie???
by mr. nice gaius
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I don't want to live in this world. Dead serious.
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aicn should post it in the news.
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Anyone who watches this may as well be sucking a producer's cock
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This takes the cake. With bag of cocks flavored frosting.
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Mark my fucking words. And it will be 3D. And you will enjoy it, because it's the natural progression of filmmaking technology.
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I can see it now, it's a rom-com that has a guy (or girl) allowing all the decisions they make for a month be made by the sphere. At the end the hero (or heroine) is all empowered and discards the sphere or after said sphere breaks they realize they don't need it and go for the girl (or guy) they wanted but the sphere said one of the negative responses to.
give me my million dollars. -
Starring Jackie Earle Haley Joel Osment!Directed by James Cameron, following up his smash success 'Flipping a Coin - The Movie!'
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IN 3-D
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DIRECTED BY MCG
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...but considering how badly The Hudsucker Proxy failed, nobody would have watched it.
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A movie based on a cartoon designed to sell action figures?
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People stage a multi-million dollar benefit to save the Hollywood sign while Hollywood itself goes belly-up. Well, at least we can still read the name on the tombstone...
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Think of the obsessive compulsiveness of not being able to make any decisions in life without. Or a gypsy curses a champion billiards player. Jim Carey stars in a movie just like 4 other movies of his.
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In full Dolby 7.1 whooshing stereo, with contrasty, ultracrisp and hypersaturated mocapped 3D CGI Ominmax Xs and Os, and a soundtrack by Avril Lavigne. Sequel the following year, reboot the year after that.
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Throughout history, a clandestine cabal has influenced every happening in the world based upon the mystical powers of the "Infinity Ball" (think about it). IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM
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...wait nevermind.
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Just want to make a joke about Magic Johnson eating balls here
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Lock it up!
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FFNNNNNFFFFFFFFFF movie magic, 3.5 grams at a time!
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Lock up your camp supplies on THIS safari! The Hippos are coming!
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Jaden Smith as Lil' Mac and Hank Azaria as Glass Joe.
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On the 'Twilight Zone' with the little Devil 'Ask your Question' thing.
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That all these sarcastic quips about hungry hungry hippos and other games are more than likely going to get snapped up by the Hollywood elite trolling boards like this for ideas. You're hoisting yourself by your own petard.
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Next up, we'll get Ridley Scott adapting an old end table he found in his dead grandmother's attic; with Paul Giamatti as the end table, and Johnny Depp as the platypus he found living inside of it! And we'll get twelve sequels, a TV series, a comic series, action figures, theme park attractions, a stage show, and an online RPG set in the world of Ridley Scott's dead grandmother's end table. A year after the the twelfth sequel, we'll get a reboot from an MTV music video director, and then another twelve sequels based on the reboot, more action figures, theme park attractions, and yes, another stage show.
Goddamn fucking sad stupid psycho brain-dead corporate crap Hollywood BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
It's in 3D, and there's this frieldy, smiling middle aged man, looking a bit like Mr Rogers. He says "Are you ready? Good. One, two, three!", and shows his hand, either rock, paper or scissors. He smiles, and says "Did you win? Goooood. Let's play it again!", and it goes on and on like this for 90 minutes, until he says "Well, that's enough playing. Bye!", and leaves. The audience plays along, laughing when they lose and win, and saying stuff out loud like "I won 3 times in a row already!" or "Geez, I can't win!". FUN, FUN, FUN!
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Starring Renee Zeliwegger as the mouse.
Do any of these idiot Battleship, Magic 8 Ball ect. films kinda give you a Coupon: The Movie from Mr. Show kinda vibe. "I watched the shit out of it!" -
Rumors coming in that Dwayne Johnson just signed on to play The Rock opposite Jeff Goldblum as Scissors... Sean Penn said to be mulling the role of the loose cannon Paper. To be directed by Darren Aronofsky, based on Stanley Kubrik's extensive notes for his never realized dream project.
Everyone knows rock beats everything. It flies right through paper! -
in Magic 8 Ball: The Movie in 3-D!
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Starring Rosie O'Donnell!!
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man gun=COCK.
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"Outlook not so good."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYs_GCy9PRk
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Why stop at licensed toys and objects? How about generic items:
Footstool: The Movie
Or
The King's Toilet Paper...the tagline could be "Nothing beats a royal flush!"
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Apr 29, 2010 12:49:27 PM CDT
Is this going to be a dark, serious take on the Magic 8-ball?
by azultool
They should create a new, super-aggressive strain of AIDS that only effects studio execs.
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Lay-z-boy and his girl Loveseat are gonna take down the Ottoman empire.
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In 3D.
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a Robin Williams family vehicle.
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...the movie.
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and have Frank Langella's face dewd in it
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...watching this is if they make it an r rated horror flick like Witchboard.
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Where one man holds the key to destiny, there are many who would seek to take it from him. Will the forces of evil wrest this prophetic orb from the hands of the one man destined by the gods to wield it?
My sources say no... -
I also IM'd the Don, who's birthday was yesterday, and asked him about my theory regarding a certain character in TF3. Guess I was on the right track because it received a favorable response.
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and the little ghost hand that comes out and grabs your nickel.
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No, not the one with the giant gremlin on the wing, the other one, "Nick of Time", where Shatner's car breaks down in a little town, goes into a diner that has these satan novelty machines that for a penny tell you your future. Shatner gets enthralled with the machine after its vague response is correct once. After more specific responses, he is stuck believing that it truly is foretelling his future and that he must stay there and keep following its advice, while his wife rails against its hold over him. Eventually, the break free from its spell and leave to live their own lives, while another couple come into the diner already addicted to the machine's control. This could easily be path of an 8-Ball movie, and it wouldn't even necessarily be a bad one. But it would portray the product in a negative light, so I am picturing a positive spin on the concept, and mixing in some National Treasure-style adventuring with the 8-Ball making many right decisions, being coy with answers just when the script needs tension, and ultimately teaching the protagonist(s?) to trust their own instincts. Why? Because Hollywood and creativity are like oil and water these days.
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Battleship, Magic 8 Ball? Stretch Armstrong!!!!!!!! Someone's getting high!!!!!
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SOMEONE WILL PUT A PENCIL THROUGH YOUR EYEBALL!!!
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It was formed of primordial ooze.....Created by the druids......
covered up by the Vatican...........buried for centuries and forgotten ............unearthed in 1946 by Albert Carter.......sold to entrepreneurs Harold Matson and Elliot Handler........
Mankind's destiny lies in a black sphere and it's name is Magic 8 Ball -
Whatever happened to creativity?
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paper airplanes
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Magic 8 Ball forcibly inserted in their rectum without any lube.
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It's all about capitalism and greed. Basically you have a comedic version of Wall Street that has over the top satire and the occasional reference to winning second place in beauty pageants and silver top hats. I wouldn't say that CLUE is a great movie, but it was a silly little murder mystery with clever references to the game. MONOPOLY could be much more. I'll bet there's a brilliant script to be had there, if given to the right writer.
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...that would be more entertaining. Okay, so it was from "iCarly".
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How many review headlines you wanna bet there'll be like that? I'm guessing 80.
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Hire me wHollyweird, you brainless plackets.
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Check out the inner workings of a magic 8-ball right now on shirt.woot.com Pretty good... and most definitely better than a movie about it.
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Apr 30, 2010 6:43:15 AM CDT
If this isn't a joke, I will punch two babys on opening day.
by fireclown
Hollywood, you have been warned.
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Apr 30, 2010 11:59:09 AM CDT
Man uses 8 ball to make his decisions for a year - starring Jim
by joesixpack
Script written. You're welcome, Hollywood.
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and a mannequin. There's a twist at the end - the liquid filling the 8 ball is comprised of vaccines.
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Bet Harry'll love THAT one!
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That is all.
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At least it probably won't be a remake.
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May 01, 2010 9:09:45 AM CDT
Is this how films are greenlit nowadays? Signs point to yes.
by voldemortwearsprada
And after they've consulted the Magic Eight Ball they crack it open and drink the booze out of the centre.
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May 01, 2010 5:20:58 PM CDT
I will pay a gazillion bucks if a major movie studio makes a
by mrmysteryguest
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What the fuck a magic 8 ball movie who came up with that?
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Are you fuckin' serious?
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http://www.vimeo.com/8745418
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