Will Bruce Campbell be PITFALL HARRY' Probably not, But Click Anyway You Primate!

Which, of course, is nearly first. Bruce would rock in this film - here me now Holywood!

Bruce would be a great choice. He can very easily pull off a cocky yet clueless protagonist. If the flick caters to his strengths this could be a real break through for him.

Angelina was perfect for Ms. Croft. Although the movie kind of stunk, the Mario bros. actors were OK. Here are some characters I'd like to see in movie someday: Charlie Sheen as Gordon Freeman from Half-life. Dolph Lungren(not sure on the spelling) as Duke Nukem(probably might be a bad movie) Sam Jackson, Val Kilmer, and (your suggestion) as the Heroes from the first Diablo (although I know that they have Vin Diesel cast in this, not sure who, though) Any more characters you can think of would be cool.

heh..uhh no it couldnt.

Wait a minute! What about Rampage? The one with the massive fuck off Gorilla's and other monsters where you fought each other on buildings. That was cool. Or Frogger: The Movie, now that would kick ass. We can get Simon West to write and Paul Anderson to direct.

Tomb Raider, The Mummy, GET OFF THE KICK it's over. Pitfall sucked anyway - jumping over crocodiles- there was no real ending to the game, time had to run out. No levels. What bulsh. Pitfall II was at least interesting - for the Commodore. I bet Harry's dad invented the Commodore.

i was thinking seaman the movie, or possibly base a movie on one of those wierd japanese dateing sim games or one of those hamster sim games also popular in japan... but I think the winner is the guy who suggested pong the movie, now that would be ace! ohh oohh! what about pacman the movie??

I enjoyed playing Pitfall when I was a kid and yeah, OK- so I used to jump over sticks and cracks in the road on the walk home from school pretending I was Pitfall Harry. But I mean, I know Hollywood's ideas are getting to be stale and tritely rely on already existing ideas that have previously faded from public memory as a whole, but it seems like this whole "video game to major motion picture" fetish is getting out of control. Can anyone even list the myriad of projects like that on the slates of the studios? I mean I know the studios probably think that they already have a market for these films (i.e. all the people who play the games), but i'm pretty sure that any day we'll hear a scoop about "Pac-Man: the movie", only done in Shrek style animation or GOD FORBID they find some way to make Pong- like someone suggested- I wouldn't put it past SOMEONE to write a screenplay for it and then try to court major stars to be in it! Bruce Campbell probably would make a great Pitfall Harry, but (again, like someone pointed out already) Jolie made a pretty decent Laura Croft, but it certainly didn't help the rest of the film! Why Hollywood insists on bringing back things that have past their prime in the forefront of the public's mind, I'll never understand. I mean, remakes aside, the old television shows and video games, etc- like dinosaurs and countless others species of animals that have been on this earth in the last fewmillion years- they all had their time and it has PAST. Let these things live on in our minds UNTAINTED and with our fond memories attached to revel in when we talk about it. I just don't wanna have to say to someone in a couple of years from now, "Oh man, I LOVED playing Pitfall when I was a kid. Yeah, Harry rocked, etc- but what was up with that movie? It just BLEW!" Please, I don't want to have to start ending my sentences with phrases like that that stain such cool artifacts of mine, and others' memories past.:)

WOuld be to have JOEL SCHUMACHER direct! YEAH! .........christ, what is this world coming to?

*Sigh* As much as I like the arcade and early home hits of the 80's, they remain better off digitized, then murdered on celluloid. Whereas I'd like to see Campbell get work as much as the next guy, he could do better than this. I like many a fanboy before me, have been sucked haplessly into the Hollywood marketing scheme that is the video game translation, the examples of which are no doubt fresh in your minds like some nightmare ("Street Fighter" anyone?) There have already been some rather humourous suggestions (or at least I hope the suits wouldn't take us seriously...please god, don't take these seriously). Here's mine: "Joust", The Movie: Yes, "Joust", starring Heath Ledger(A Knight's Tale) and Richard Gere (First Knight), each reprising his mediocre medieval role from their respective mediocre medieval films, riding the backs of giantic CGI birds for two hours. Sure to lay the proverbial egg. I shall ponder the script potential while I watch some old animated "Pac-Man" episodes on BetaMax.

I take it this is some sort of Tomb Raider joke.

Wouldn't that be lame as hell. 2 and a half hours of SKATEBOARD JUMPS!!! Get Cameron to Direct it, and have Tony (played by Leo) screw some chick on skateboard! And, after nailing the chick, he is killed in a skateboarding accident... no, not as good as I thought. IT NEEDS ARNOLD. And, Michael Biehn. Hell yes, GIVE ME TONY HAWK: PRO SKATER, THE MOVIE!

I've heard he's got a real long schlong ...

Yeah and they can stuff his pants inconsistantly(sp?) so that every scene his dick is a different size!!!

Strangely, I had read of a conceptualization (script?) made several years ago of Joust as a movie, but the budget required reportedly killed it. A ha, I found a reference to it at http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/winter99/j.html

It was PitFall 3D: http://www.activision.com/games/pitfall3d/ (Mind you, I prefered Pitfall - The Mayan Adventure on the SNES :) )

I'd like to see him in a jungle movie... Swallowing bugs because he's apparently unaware that his mouth hangs open 80% of the time.

Yeah! You could get Barry Sonnenfeld to direct, have Bob Hoskins play the chef and have him running up and down ladders, escaping giant frankfurters, pickles and fried eggs, while trying to create giant burgers. Sweet! OK, that would suck, BIG TIME! But seriously, Pitfall is one of my favorite games from when I was a kid. Many a day, I stayed inside and tried to finish those games Pitfall 1 and 2. I even did the ultimate geek thing and took the photo of the screen after I beat the games and sent away for my official Pitfall Harry patch. I think I still have them around somewhere. And I love Bruce Campbell as well. I think he should play Duke Nukem. Didn't they cob all of his lines from Evil Dead anyway? But, I think that 2 hours of someone jumping on gator heads, ducking bats, swinging on vines and picking up bars of gold/silver/platinum would be lame, very lame. If they want to do a movie, they should think about doing Spy Hunter. Now, that's a decent enough plot. Cool cars, gangsters, speedboats, oil slicks, etc. Nobody's ever been able to compete with Bond. Execept Austin Powers that is. Later.

Yeah, this has nothing to do with Bruce, but what the hell happened to Cinescape? I didn't hear anything about it's demise, but for 2 weeks it's been offline. Any ideas?

type www.AssignmentX.Com to visit the NEW Cinescape Online. I think It you type WWW.Cinescape.Com it will also shoot you to the Assignment X site.

But on to Atari 2600 game-themed movies I guess...There is always Activision's "Kaboom" and "Megamania" (the best "Space Invaders" rip off ever), the omnipresent "Maze Craze", and then the ultimate: "Real Sports Volleyball" which, I'd imagine, would be classic on the scale of the C Thomas Howell/Peter Horton vehicle "Sideout".

But on to Atari 2600 game-themed movies I guess...There is always Activision's "Kaboom" and "Megamania" (the best "Space Invaders" rip off ever), the omnipresent "Maze Craze", and then the ultimate: "Real Sports Volleyball" which, I'd imagine, would be classic on the scale of the C Thomas Howell/Peter Horton vehicle "Sideout".

I like campbell, but if I were trying to pull a fast one on Harry & crew I'd make up a story like this and would include B.C. because I know that's where the achilles heel is. That said, it could be a cool movie. But i highly highly doubt that this memo ever existed.

SUCK! Pitfall was a fun game, but it's an Indy rip-off, more blatant than Tomb Raider - hell, at least Tomb Raider has a concept. I guess they could use it to make fun of the Indy films. That would be preferable to trying to mimic them outright. And NO BEN AFFLECK. I just saw Pearl Harbor this weekend (for free, not into lining Bay's pockets), and Affleck continues to demonstrate that he is no leading man. I like the kid, but Bruce Campbell is a better choice.

Sorry, but this doesn't sound legit in any way or form. I agree that this is a false rumor purposely created to make AICN look silly. Affleck as Pitfall Harry? Right. And hardly anyone knows are cares about the Pitfall! games. Pitfall! is still ancient video game history.

Uhhh....Last Crusade was ever bit as good as Raiders IF NOT better. Yeah, Temple of Doom was weak but your can't say Inadiquate Sequels (plural) because only one was weak. The other was outstanding. And he is certainly NOT too old to play the part again....

We can only hope Bruce would have Amy the gorilla as his sidekick... with all her fur she's better for cuddling than JarJar.

How about Monopoly: The Movie? or Risk 2002? The Film Of Life? Clue? Oh wait...

Just from a storytelling standpoint. There are other films I like equally, maybe even more, but Raiders is just as solid as you can get. I don't think Last Crusade even comes close, although it's a wonderful film.

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When I was a kid, my best friend's little brother gradually figured out that he was a homosexual -- not that there's anything wrong with that -- first by running around with a gold boat-rope and a blue handtowel belted to his head, dressed as Wonder Woman -- and ultimately by greasing up the old Atari joystick and sticking it up his ass. Eventually he found his mom's vibrator and the rest is history. Luckily he wrote about all this in his diary, and my buddy and I would laugh about it over at my house -- which is where we had to go to play an Atari that hadn't been jammed up anybody's ass.

Just for typing the above sentence, a person should be shot in the head. But anyway, the video game-movie I'm waiting for is "Kool Aid Man: The Movie!" Does anybody remember the "Kool Aid" Intellivision game, where you had to go all around the house trying to find the ingredients to everybody's favorite juicy drink? Man, that advertising scheme was about as subtle as being clocked in the face with a wooden board.

For those of you who don't know it's a action game where you go around Dracula's castle and cut shit up. There are tons of monsters and cool stuff, plus the bad guy is Dracula. So far there have been like 8 games in this videogame series. Christopher Walken could play a good Dracula. Other good ones that I would have in mind are Skies of Arcadia (a Sega RPG) Xenogears (a Square RPG) and Chrono Cross (a Square RPG). But anywho I really am not that big of fan of Pitfall except for Pitfall The Mayan Adventure...which was an excellent game:) But right now the only game movie I'm really looking foward to is Final Fantasy...

Pitfall is one of the only few pleasant memories from my childhood. Don't take that away.

Just buy up the unused and unloved footage from the old Saturday morning cartoon series based solely on video games! These tapes should be dirt cheap by now. Or, if you can't get the master copies, just raid your step-brother's dusty collection and to hell with copyright laws....only geeks are gonna see this anyways, and who the hell all we gonna tell, huh? Not the channels who killed these series in the first place! Not if you were ever a fan of, oh let's see here.....Qbert, Space Ace, Super Mario Bros. (sans the Milli Vanilli eps.)...cmon I know there's a bunch more out there but the names escape me. We must help these helpless studio heads...they need our help! If you think of more titles, either post them on this site. Saturday-morning-cartoon-geeks-of-the-world unite!

Gleaming the Cube 2 and would have Christian Slater's character grown up and workin' as a detective for a corrupt police department. He's frustrated about the PD's complacency with the Triad's illegal shipments so he gets his old buddy Tony Hawk (who's now a MANAGER at the Pizza Hut or Domino's or whatever it was he worked for in Gleaming 1) to help him investigate using his skateboarding ways. It'd be awesome. Especially with cheesy Jackie Chan-ish fight scenes using the skateboard tricks and shit. And the one sheet would have Slater and Hawk back to back on an LA street, Slater with a police pistol and Hawk with a skateboard... yeah... straight to video... I'd watch it... then again, I'm still hoping Van Damme's The Order gets picked up for distribution so I can laugh my ass off! Trash Cinema Forever...

I was too young to remember the "Donkey kong" cartoon -- I imagine in every episode Donkey Kong gets out and Mario chases him around. And wasn`t there a "Pitfall" cartoon?

Now THAT I would see! Just imagine, it would probably have some fat f*ck accidentally spill "magic dust" (or something) on his burger-ingredients. And then of course the magic of CGI would bring the giant pickles and fries and shit from the game to life on the big screen! As for casting, hmm I don`t know, I like the suggestion of Bob Hoskins. I swear I laughed out loud at the thought of Hoskins. Or hell, this is HOLLYWOOD we`re talking about here, folks! They can just get any superstar and use a "Nutty Professor"-like fat suit! Hell, they could get Ben Affleck.

This is the funniest talk back I've ever read on this site.

and vaseline, all in one talk back. Kinda makes ya wonder, huh? Like peas and carrots, I guess. I am waiting on Frogger, the movie, followed by F2:A Tadpole's Revenge. The lead role will be played by Ben Affleck with his customary flair. Director Sam Raimi later insists that no other actor could have possibly portrayed the open-mouthed bug-eyed hero as well as Ben. Critics will rave, "The level of control he maintained over his facial expressions was stupendous and he demonstrated an ability to remain completely emotionless. The epitome of a frog crossing the road. Not since Dogma have we see such a performance."

I think i remember there being a video game based on "Kramer vs. Kramer" for the Atari 2600 where the husband and wife character squared off against each other and tossed different types of food at each other like tomatoes and celery. And if you won you get to keep the kid. Now if only life was that simple....

Let me guess, Kirsten Dunst as Ms. Pac-Man.

You know, I love Quake III Arena. Really, I do. Online or single player, it's my absolute fave game, and it kicks all ass over all contenders including, in my opinion, Unreal. That said. . .I REEEEEALY *don't* want to open Harry's page one day and see a headline screaming "QUAKE III ARENA: THE MOVIE info!!! Click here!!!" That would be. . .bad.

i guess if your gonna get a golden shower, god probably does it best.....ew, smells like broccoli

Anyone remember this? I used to love that show. It had like cartoons of Q-Bert, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Frogger, and i think Space Ace and Dragon's Lair were on too. I loved Captain N too, up until they introduced Game Boy, and then towards the end of the series the animation went to shit for some reason. Best episode was when they had a crossover with Zelda. Anyways, Bruce Campbell kicks ass and should be in every movie in the world.

Oh come on, Dolph has at least the acting ability of Arnie or Stallone, and I Come in Peace and Showdown in Little Tokyo were both good fun. Dolph plays dead-pan great, and thats just what the role calls for. With a good script and a hard R - to avoid the mangling of another hardass (Judge Dred, Spawn, etc...) - the movie could really rock. Plus he should still be in great shape, he was captain of the U.S. pentathalon (or some other -athalon) team a while back.

Bruce campbell would be the greatest simon belmont ever concieved, plus C.V. is a classic, and could be made into a some what interesting plot, but who cares bruce campbell as simon. brilliant.

It played out like it was conceived by a bunch of former "Cracked" and "CarToon" magazine writers on an epic LSD binge. It was incoherent, had a bad guy that wore a face mask pretty similar to the one Hannibal Lector would sport in SOTL (predating it by something like 10 years), and had Pac-Man eating Blinky and the crew of 'ghosts' almost constantly. It was one of the great animated wonders of the early 80's along with the gonzo "The Littles".

Campbell needs to come back up the surface. There needs to be a 4th Evil Dead movie! I also want to see him in other projects. A sorely underused talent!

Horrifyingly enough, there WAS a Pong movie treatment floating around at one point in the late 80's. I still have an old issue of "Video Games & Computer Entertainment" magazine somewhere amongst boxes of Old-Shit-From-My-Youth, summarizing the (then-tentative) treatment as "Michael J. Fox stars as a rubber boy from outer space who must defend the Earth from Jack Palance and his paddle-warriors." Hopefully the thing will stay buried in whatever demonic ark it originated-from in the first place.

Campbell's name tossed around by a studio? Do you think we are THAT dumb? Campbell is a "B" movie actor, studios won't toss Bruce's name around unless they are making a "B" movie or they need someone to kiss Affleck's arse! If Bruce Campbell gets MAIN part in a big budget not directed by his bud SAM, then I'll believe that HELL HAS FROZEN OVER!!!

Yes that would kick ass. I do think he needs the chainsaw back, though, instead of that metal hand. Hail to the king, baby.

Many games could be turned into good movies. Examples: "Phantasy Star". "Journey to Silius". "Strider". "Shinobi". "Ninja Gaiden". "E-SWAT". "Castlevania". "Zelda". "Zero Tolerance". "Star Fox". ***** Why? Because these games have a good story, or at least have interesting characters and ideas with potential to be used in a good story. ***** Unlike "Quake", which is a pretty good game, but has no story. ***** Or "Tomb Raider", which is a mediocre game with a mediocre story, which could only turn into a mediocre movie. ***** Thus far (while "Final Fantasy" isn't done), there is only one really good movie based on a videogame: the 1st "Mortal Kombat" (the sequels sucked shit). ***** I kinda liked the animated versions of "Fatal Fury" and "Samurai Shodown", too.

How about the "Haunted House" Atari 2600 game with the eyes that moved all around in the dark- let's make that a movie! Lord knows it looked better than "The Haunting"...

A friend of mine sent me this site. Real or not I got a laugh. http://www.angelfire.com/movies/Manimal