Showing posts with label board games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label board games. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2009

Bored Games

Staff Writer: Samuntha Mackenzie

In the next six years, audiences will be underwhelmed and flat out bored with Hollywood's next creative fix: Board Games.

That's right childhood favorites will now rot your brain instead of being fun family entertainment. Candy Land, Monopoly, Ouija Board, and Battleship have producers and directors ready to go. Those famous names include Kevin Lima, Ridley Scott, and Michael Bay.

With a limitless clamoring of writers and creative thinkers in Hollywood, why board games? What am I saying? These are the same geniuses who rip off comic books and novels instead of creating worlds themselves.

In a few instances the re imaging has gone well. It's the other percentage points that don't, is what worries the rest of us.

Source: Yahoo! News

You Sank My Battleship

Staff Writer: Samuntha Mackenzie

Peter Berg, the film maker behind "Hancock," "The Kingdom," "Friday Night Lights" and "The Rundown" is in talks to direct a naval action/adventure movie from the board game: Battleship.

Jon and Erich Hoeber will write the script as well as penned the upcoming thriller "Whiteout," based on a comic book.

Source: Yahoo! News