'Risk' to Become Next Big-Screen Board Game Adaptation
Filed under: Action, Deals, Games and Game Movies
Battleship. Monopoly, Candy Land, and Ouija. A Clue re-do. If it's a board game, chances are it's going to get put into development sometime in the near future. If Hollywood wasn't such a wacky world of insane ideas, I'd be surprised that we hadn't gotten this one earlier. Nikki Finke is reporting that Sony Pictures has bought the rights to Risk, piling more cinematic coin into Hasbro's coffers. The project will be developed by Hasbro in conjunction with James Lassiter and Overbrook Entertainment.Columbia Pictures pres. Doug Belgrad says audiences have "shown a great desire for films that bring to life everything that has made these franchise properties stand the test of time," and mentioned the likes of Transformers and G.I. Joe. Unsurprisingly then, he says the film will be an exciting movie with "an action-packed, thrilling story." It makes sense -- a game where you roll the dice to world domination is just asking for a big blow-out action flick. That being said...
First of all, there's been no "great desire" to see board game movies get adapted. Nice try. Second, in the piece, Finke talks about Belgrad mentioning the two old cartoon redo's before noting that he did not mention "the dismal movie from the board game Clue." While I understand some people dislike the film, dismal is quite a strong statement -- especially in a world where we're getting Battleship. Finally, with the ever-rising popularity of all things geek, I'm kinda disappointed that this won't be a tongue-in-cheek comedy about a bunch of geeks playing Risk. But who knows? Maybe that will come when someone gets around to buying Magic: The Gathering.
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11-05-2009 @ 11:31AM
Joshua said...
Making movies based on Board games seams like a silly idea to me... whats next "Jenga the movie: dont bump the table" ?
what is hollywood going to exploit next? I hope its music albums i know they did the srg. peppers but i would love to see an adaptation of Deltron 3030 (a space opera) its a fantastic album and could be a great movie...... pass that on to hollywood.
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11-05-2009 @ 6:03PM
skitz630 said...
Yes! Deltron 3030 would be an amazing hip-hopera!
11-05-2009 @ 12:04PM
benbligh said...
All you need to do is capture and protect Australia and you win the game. I assume same rules will apply in the plot.
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11-05-2009 @ 1:25PM
Chuck said...
How about Axis and Allies?...Oh wait thats WW2.......
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11-05-2009 @ 2:21PM
Gregory Rubinstein said...
How dare they insult Clue! I love that movie!
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11-05-2009 @ 6:17PM
Bob said...
Clue f'n rocks. I doubt this person has ever actually watched the movie cause everyone I know loves it. It's great rainy Sunday afternoon movie watching with a killer cast. This writer probably hates Footloose and the Karate Kid too.
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11-05-2009 @ 7:21PM
ashls28 said...
Ooooooo, a Deltron 3030 movie would be awesome.
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11-06-2009 @ 2:05PM
Adrian said...
They should make a BattleTech movie, whether anime or live-action. After the rights to *unseen* mecha are acquired...
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11-05-2009 @ 7:53PM
maryheartorly said...
um, i'm sry. but Clue is an underrated classic that people love. its a shame they're redoing it. hollywood never has original ideas
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11-05-2009 @ 10:48PM
Skppygddss said...
Yes! Loved the Clue movie. Remakes.... not so much so. I was hoping they would give a plot for this Risk movie. Am I to figure it doesn't have one, just lots of explosions?
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11-06-2009 @ 3:53AM
danguitarguy said...
There is a movie about guys playing Risk. It's called World Domination. It's pretty good.
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