From Deadline Hollywood: "Paramount has extended its business with Mattel, optioning the venerable toy Magic 8 Ball to use as the basis for a live action adventure film."
(photo by bark.)
speculation and mini-rant after the jump.
Now, the Floating Island is optimized to harvest ideas from anywhere, it's true. Bullshit is not the most efficient of wonder-fuel, but in a pinch, it will result in a sort of stuttering forward motion.
Can one make a decent film involving a magic 8-ball? Not impossible. But this isn't a script about a magic 8-ball, wherein filmmakers then decide to get permission from the toy company. They got the rights to the object first. Because there's an enormous built-in audience clamoring for whatever movie one might becide to build around the storylicious Magic 8-Ball.
I suspect that somewhere in West Los Angeles, a bunch of studio execs are trying to one-up each other on who can option a property with the least amount of story possible. And the "Stretch Armstrong" and "Battleship" guys thought they had it on lock... they owe this dude a lot of money. Magic 8 Ball.
What's next when people start making movies based on fucking objects? Lite Brite? Slinky? Speak'n'Spell? Spam? Monster Cables? Pyramid Hefeweizen? Sennheiser Headphones? Clever Coffee Mug: The Move?
"Ooh ooh! I option that table over there! Kids love that table!"
Kids really do love this table. Photo by oskay, who apparently also has coffee tables you can buy, or presumably, movie rights you can option. The schematic for this table can be found here, should you want to make one yourself (which the Floating Island gleefully encourages but does not endorse).
Can one make a decent film involving a magic 8-ball? Not impossible. But this isn't a script about a magic 8-ball, wherein filmmakers then decide to get permission from the toy company. They got the rights to the object first. Because there's an enormous built-in audience clamoring for whatever movie one might becide to build around the storylicious Magic 8-Ball.
I suspect that somewhere in West Los Angeles, a bunch of studio execs are trying to one-up each other on who can option a property with the least amount of story possible. And the "Stretch Armstrong" and "Battleship" guys thought they had it on lock... they owe this dude a lot of money. Magic 8 Ball.
What's next when people start making movies based on fucking objects? Lite Brite? Slinky? Speak'n'Spell? Spam? Monster Cables? Pyramid Hefeweizen? Sennheiser Headphones? Clever Coffee Mug: The Move?
"Ooh ooh! I option that table over there! Kids love that table!"
Kids really do love this table. Photo by oskay, who apparently also has coffee tables you can buy, or presumably, movie rights you can option. The schematic for this table can be found here, should you want to make one yourself (which the Floating Island gleefully encourages but does not endorse).
Does anyone owe the film rights to the slinky yet? If not, I've got a phone call to make.
"I need backup! We've got incoming! On the stairs!"
"Alone?"
"No -- in PAIRS."
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This city is mine! EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S SLINKY!!!
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This spring, prepare for a marvellous thing.
Ken, I think you and Stephen had better get to L.A. right now.
I love it, but can we do it as a Samuel L. Jackson vehicle? I think nothing's gonna sell that line quite like:
No -- in motherfucking pairs!
OH SHIT and he goes by "SLINK DOG!!!"
This is all gold.
I hate you all. This is breaking my brain.
Now I'm thinking of all my childhood dreams involving Rainbow Brite's Rainbow Belt. http://www.rainbowbrite.net/books/magicbelt.html (Spectral-cough-rain.)
I have these socks. http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/19915.jpg
Slink Dog only had a week left until his retirement. Hoping to coast out on a quiet note, he was unprepared for what his last case would bring him. His only hope? His new wet-behind-the-ears partner, Glo-Worm Jones could cover his back as he takes on his toughest case yet.
The basic idea of sustainability is to look at the long-term effects of one's practices and evaluate whether or not they can continue in the same way. In green thought, this means looking at human economies in all of their complexity and determining whether or not the related ecosystems can continue to thrive and support them.
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