Nov 5 2009Risk: The Film of World Domination
Realizing there were still board games not yet arbitrarily being made into feature films, Sony announced yesterday they had purchased the movie rights to Risk. Because moving representative armies around a board and getting angry with your backstabbing friends for several hours is a good movie plot:
Sony Pictures announced today it's acquired the motion picture rights to the board game of world conquest, "Risk", from Hasbro. Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures, say the film will be produced and developed by Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir and Overbrook Entertainment's James Lassiter. Belgrad pointed to the success of movies from toys Transformers and G.I. Joe (but not to the dismal movie from the board game Clue) to claim audiences have "shown a great desire for films that bring to life everything that has made these franchise properties stand the test of time."
Screenwriters, I suggest you start the story in Australia and move on from there. Unless you're starting with a great plot foundation in North or South America, in which case just go for it there.
Reader Comments
1. Roybertito - November 5, 2009 12:02 PM
They cite Transformers and GI Joe as being good but call the fucking awesome "Clue" dismal? Who are these people?
2. Rich Waffle_U - November 5, 2009 12:15 PM
I second that man. Second! Clue was freaking awesome. Tim Curry rocks a butler's uniform like no other. Also, GI Joe was a sack of cack.
3. Atreids - November 5, 2009 1:05 PM
Iceland's mine ya fuckers!
4. diableri - November 5, 2009 2:46 PM
Dear Mr. Belgrad and/or whatever the fuck a Nikki Finke is,
Fuck you sideways with a Zamboni.
Regards,
Someone with taste in films.
5. Anon - November 5, 2009 3:14 PM
As if the game isn't boring enough...
6. Dr.Necropolis - November 5, 2009 3:28 PM
1+2+2+1 not 1+2+1+1
yeah clue
7. Remegy - November 5, 2009 3:41 PM
OH MY GOD! Hollywood needs to just die! is there ANYTHING they won't make a movie about?!
8. frank - November 5, 2009 9:09 PM
@2: I don't know what a sack of cack is, but I'm going to use that phrase from now on.
9. Rosco - November 5, 2009 9:28 PM
I fail to believe there's anyone who actually thinks Clue is bad and Transformers is good; they must mean in a business sense, where it'd be easier to sell a studio if you said you were making "this year's Transformers" ($29.5 M its first weekend) rather than "this year's Clue" ($14.6 M total).
10. bucky - November 6, 2009 2:04 AM
im so glad everyone's on the same page here, clue is fucking hilarious, particularly gene parmesan as colonel mustard (i dont know that actor's real name, he'll always be gene to me). transformers is unwatchable.
11. Nick - November 6, 2009 8:36 AM
I like how they somehow make the jump from toy lines that had popular cartoon series/comics/many other franchise outlets to board games. It's a logical jump, because board games are actually just like toys to begin with. Not to mention the wildly popular Risk and Monopoly cartoons we all cherished as children.
12. Nick - November 6, 2009 8:37 AM
I like how they somehow make the jump from toy lines that had popular cartoon series/comics/many other franchise outlets to board games. It's a logical jump, because board games are actually just like toys to begin with. Not to mention the wildly popular Risk and Monopoly cartoons we all cherished as children.
13. Weezey - November 6, 2009 10:00 AM
Fuck this dude. Clue was awesome.
14. Sonny - November 6, 2009 11:55 AM
Dude! Transformers was OK, I guess, but for real, Clue was a great movie! So freaking funny. IWS writer, might I humbly suggest moderating the volume of rock-cocain that you vaporize and inhale? Many thanks.
15. Remegy - November 6, 2009 3:58 PM
#14, The IWS writer didn't write that, its a quote from http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/sony-pictures-buys-board-game-risk/