Feb 5 2009 'Candy Land' Gets Writer, Director, Candy
Universal has announced the writing/directing team for their movie based on the board game Candy Land, and you know they're going to screw up the part where someone picks a card with a color on it and then advances to the next instance of that color:
Studio has set Etan Cohen to write and Kevin Lima to direct a live-action feature based on the enduring Hasbro board game.Lima most recently directed the Amy Adams starrer "Enchanted" after helming the animated features "Tarzan" and "102 Dalmatians." Cohen's recent script work includes "Tropic Thunder" and "Madagascar 2," and he most recently rewrote "The Fiance," the Burr Steers-directed romantic comedy that will star Anne Hathaway.
I am highly opposed to this. When a kid is playing Candy Land, they should be basking in the dreams of living in a candy-based world and enjoying the freedom that comes with chance controlling your every move. They shouldn't have to stop and say "Wait, Madison, if I'm rounding Gumdrop Lane, does that mean I'm after the part where Alan Cumming as Dr. Licorice has kidnapped the kids and they're about to reluctantly return to the human world through the Lollipop Portal?" Let the children keep their context-free world paved in diabetes. Trouble, on the other hand--go ahead and make a Trouble movie. What's the trouble? Let's find out.
'Candy Land' coming to bigscreen [Variety]
Oct 8 2008 'Tom Thumb' Is Going To Be a Movie
Following the success of The Dark Knight and Iron Man, directors and studios are scrambling to pick up whatever remaining comic franchises they can get their hands on. But not Enchanted director Kevin Lima. He's not going to be fooled by the buzz. He knows what's really hot right now, and that is childish, sixteenth century English folklore. So he's directing Tom Thumb, the tale of a 6-inch-tall knight (above, fucking a butterfly), written, strangely, by the writer of Saving Private Ryan.
Warner Bros. and Red Wagon have lined up Kevin Lima ("Enchanted") to direct "Tom Thumb," a live-action take on the origins of the tiny character.Red Wagon toppers Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher will produce, with Chris Chase exec producing.
Story, penned by Robert Rodat ("Saving Private Ryan"), is centered on an arrogant knight who's shrunk to 6 inches while assigned to protect a princess and then discovers what it means to be a real hero.
So being a real hero means practicing macrophilia? I always suspected as much, but I'm glad someone is saying it with a movie.
WB, Red Wagon developing 'Thumb' [Variety]
