Merrick here...

We shoulda said something about this one last week, but it slipped through the cracks.

Anyway...

Back in 1982, I used to play the video game Joust all the time. And, as often as I tried, I always sucked at it...but that never stopped me.

In case you don't remember the game, it's the one with the flying Ostrich thingie that you fly around on while try to knock other players off of flying their flying ostrich thingies.

It had floating sky islands you materialized from, could land on during combat, etc. These islands always reminded me a little bit of De Laurentiis' FLASH GORDON.

The game looked like this:

Anyways, there's a movie being mulled by a company called CP Productions.

Cerenzie calls the new script by Marc Gottlieb "Gladiator meets Mad Max." The film is set 25 years in the future and includes a Las Vegas suspended in mid-air.

says THIS ARTICLE at GameDaily, where the news initially emerged last week.

Variety also talks about the film this morning.

Not surprisingly, there's also talk to revamping the video game itself to bring it into sync with the film.

A floating Vegas, hunh? Why am I'm having flashbacks to the SUPER MARIO BROS movie.

PLAY THE GAME HERE!!!