Hey kids…can you spell disaster?
If you spelled it E-H-R-E-N-space-K-R-U-G-E-R, then I knew that you could.
Kruger’s Hollywood resume is almost as nighmarish as the serial slasher who shares his name. He’s been responsible for such low-rent fare as The Skeleton Key and Scream 3. Though he did have a little something to do with Blood and Chocolate, it’s not much reason to hold out hope. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
But now, Kruger’s going to be sole writer for the Transformers 3 script, as the other two writers of Transformers 2 have bugged out. Considering his track record thus far, it’s not boding real what you’d call well for the third installment of the gigantic cash cow of a series.
Scuse me while I go looking for some comfort whiskey, while I count down the days until the release of this next grotesquerie on our childhoods when Transformers 3 comes out in 2011.
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Well, that’s it, folks…stick a fork in the entire concept of Hollywood because it is oh-ficially done like dinner.
Warner Brothers is now on record as planning to launch a movie about Legos.
Yeah, Legos. You know, those little plastic blocks that pretty much everybody played with when they were kids? And this isn’t about what people do with them or anything like that, either. This is about something entirely different. In fact, the studio is citing Toy Story as its model.
Okay, so maybe this isn’t as lunatic an idea as I first thought. Let’s be honest here–in basements and bedrooms and playrooms all across the country, Lego has generated literally millions of stories. I personally liked to arm my Legos and construct vast space fleets of mismatched vessels to go forth and destroy alien civilizations. Fighter craft out of speedboats, bombers out of airliners, all that sort of thing.
And if I, a mere stripling, could come up with dozens of tales for my Legos to enact, imagine what actual writers could do. Or failing that, imagine what Hollywood writers could do.
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Amazing! I remember playing this game as a kid and can’t believe that a story will actually come from this simple Atari video game. It looks like it will happen because Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game “Asteroids.” Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura.
As I remember, the concept of the game was so simple. A player controlled a triangular space ship in an asteroid field. The object was to shoot and destroy the hulking masses of rock and the occasional flying saucer while avoiding smashing into both.
As opposed to today’s games, there is no story line or fancy world-building mythology, so the studio would be creating a plot from scratch. I can’t imagine what that story would be about that could keep an audience interest for at least an hour and a half. But I guess, Universal is used to that development process because, according to THR, the studio is in the middle of doing just that for several of the Hasbro board game properties it is translating to the big screen, such as “Battleship” and “Candyland.”
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