• Candyland board game movie adaptation moving forward: Staring and co-written by Adam Sandler.
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[IMG]http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/7815/adamsandlercandylandmov.jpg[/IMG] [quote]When last we heard about Hasbro’s Candy Land board game movie adaptation, it was being scripted by Kung Fu Panda duo Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. The pair revealed they were fashioning the movie as an all-ages-friendly mix of action and comedy that would unfold like a Lord of the Rings-style fantasy adventure, set in a world filled with peppermint forests and fudge swamps. However, there’s no longer any point in debating whether or not that sounds like a good idea – seeing how the “fantasy adventure” aspect of the Candy Land adaptation is being abandoned, in favor of a film that’s bigger on laughs… as co-written by and starring none other than the top dog of high-concept comedy shlock, Adam Sandler. Columbia Pictures, Hasbro, and Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions have announced that they are prepped to collaborate on the live-action Candy Land movie, which is still set to be directed by Kevin Lima (Enchanted). Besides being attached as the lead, Sandler will also be collaborating with Robert Smigel (You Don’t Mess with the Zohan) on the film’s screenplay. This marks but the latest drastic change in direction for the Candy Land adaptation. Back in 2009, the project was originally going to be about people entering an enchanted board game (a la Jumanji), as scripted by Men in Black III writer Etan Cohen. Aibel and Berger were thereafter hired on to pen the screenplay; the two basically dropped Cohen’s narrative design completely, in favor of the aforementioned LotR approach instead. Now, as it stands, Candy Land will most likely be a conventional family-friendly comedy in the vein of the Sandler-starring Bedtime Stories – one that partly takes place in reality, while also crossing over occasionally into the titular world of sugary landmarks and residents (be it real or imagined). Regardless of whether you’re still a dyed-in-the-wool Sandler comedy fan – or if you feel that his starring efforts have gotten increasingly lazy, crass, and unfunny over the years – there IS still some personnel involved with this project who are more universally-admired, and thus provide hope that could amount to more than a Sandler-style “joint” for general audiences. Lima, for example, is well-liked for directing films such as Enchanted, Disney’s animated Tarzan flick, and even A Goofy Movie – which has (surprisingly) earned something in the way of a cult following, over the years. On the other hand, Lima was also responsible for helming 102 Dalmatians, so it can’t be said that his directing efforts always result in passable-to-good family entertainment. One thing you can count on, though – now that the money-raking body that is Happy Madison Productions is involved with the Candy Land movie, the project is unlikely to undergo any additional metamorphoses in the future. For better or for (much) worse, a Sandler-centric version is the one most likely to actually be made.[/quote] [url]http://screenrant.com/adam-sandler-candy-land-movie-sandy-149139/[/url] It's funny reading the history of this film, how they originally envisioned a kids version of LOTR lol but ughguh i'm really not looking forward to when the marketing kicks into high gear for this fucking one [IMG]http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5682/78445213.jpg[/IMG] NOOO GO AWAY FOR FUCK SAKE
Oh god, please no. Seriously, a fucking movie.... Based on a game with living candy that hardly makes sense to the three year olds that play it. This is a terrible idea and this movie is doomed to failure.
God damnit Adam Sandler, get your shit together.
There's video games made into movies, they rarely work... but a... board... game? I... wh-what?
Candy Land was my FAVORITE board game back in the day. I might go see this.
Adam Sandler only stars in good films prove me wrong
[QUOTE=J!NX;34501025]There's video games made into movies, they rarely work... but a... board... game?[/QUOTE] Haven't you heard about the battleship movie coming out? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDMXkPfxjOc[/media] Note the board game pegs that the alien ships fire lol. Also they're trying to make a monopoly movie as well.
How would you even make a movie based on Candy Land Bubblegum Frodo dropping the Gummy Lifesaver into the pit of chocolate sauce
Since its Adam Sandler, I expect it to be really unprofessional and just be a paycheck for him and his friends.
adam sandler is literally the worst human ever
[QUOTE=postal;34501047]Haven't you heard about the battleship movie coming out? Note the board game pegs that the alien ships fire lol. Also they're trying to make a monopoly movie as well.[/QUOTE] You know what would be nice? If it turned out that the Battleship movie, Monopoly movie, and Candyland movie were actually [I]all the same film[/I]. It'd be fucking crazy.
I'm guessing this is going to be a cash in by putting candy company logos like "Hershey's" everywhere.
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;34501314]I'm guessing this is going to be a cash in by putting candy company logos like "Hershey's" everywhere.[/QUOTE] Given Sandler's association that's basically a guarantee. The first 20 minutes are probably just gonna be him slowly eating and overly enjoying a Hershey bar.
[QUOTE=postal;34501047]Haven't you heard about the battleship movie coming out? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDMXkPfxjOc[/media] Note the board game pegs that the alien ships fire lol. Also they're trying to make a monopoly movie as well.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://steveearly.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/cringe.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=postal;34501348]Given Sandler's association that's basically a guarantee. The first 20 minutes are probably just gonna be him slowly eating and overly enjoying a Hershey bar.[/QUOTE] more like the whole movie. then at the end it will say CANDYLAND and every pinhead out there will say it was artistic.
[QUOTE=Nikota;34501128]Since its Adam Sandler, I expect it to be really unprofessional and just be a paycheck for him and his friends.[/QUOTE] I hope you like advertisements and product placements!
god, even prostitutes have standards.
[QUOTE=postal;34501047]Also they're trying to make a monopoly movie as well.[/QUOTE] How the hell do you make a movie out of a children's game that was originally a piece of anti-capitalist propaganda?
Guys. This will somehow have a budget of 80-160 million dollars. I can smell it.
[QUOTE=Nikota;34501704]Guys. This will somehow have a budget of 80-160 million dollars. I can smell it.[/QUOTE] And I bet it's gonna have a scene where the main character [I]slowly[/I] turns a bottle of Pepto-Bismol™ towards the camera and then [I]slowly[/I] drinks it!
They really are completely out of ideas.
Idiots, they should have made it starting Nicholas Cage.
[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;34501682]How the hell do you make a movie out of a children's game that was originally a piece of anti-capitalist propaganda?[/QUOTE] By making it as capitalist as possible in advertising (for the movie and in the movie), but have the plot be blatantly anti-capitalist. And somehow make the movie incredibly divisive, even more so than before. And make it instill paranoia. That way it will fulfill what Monopoly really is about, even more so than anti-capitalism: making everybody involved hate each other in the end.
Not gonna lie, the "Battleship" movie actually looks pretty sick.
[QUOTE=Last or First;34501954] making everybody involved hate each other in the end.[/QUOTE] Sounds like everyone board game i have ever played.
[QUOTE=Craptasket;34501573]I hope you like advertisements and product placements![/QUOTE] It's gonna be a version of candy land where all/most of the candy still has it's wrapper on, with the logo always facing the camera in every shot i'm calling it NOW
[b]WHY.[/b]
AND! Advertisement for sony brands.
[QUOTE=Nikota;34502067]AND! Advertisement for sony brands.[/QUOTE][Hershey] chocolate covered Sony electronics.
I fail to see the necessity of them making this. My confidence and expectations aren't exactly high concerning it's potential quality, even without factoring in Adam Sandler.
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