So because someone out there asked the question “What could be the dumber than a movie based on the Atari Video game Asteroids?” today brings us an answer!
A movie based on the Viewmaster toy.
Fringe co-producer/writer Brad Caleb Kane will be writing a movie based on the stereoscopic Viewmaster toy for Dreamworks. Created in 1939 as a way for money challenged tourists to enjoy 3D stereo-grams of colorful and picturesque locations from around the world, the Viewmaster was later marketed as a toy in the mid-1960’s.
Brad revealed the info on Twitter, saying that he is developing the script for Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and that the hope is for it to be in the vein of the old 1980’s Amblin movies like Goonies and Young Sherlock.
That descriptive is longer than any script I could conceieve on a movie based on a Viewmaster.
And I have NO CLUE what it means to say it will be “in the vein of Goonies and Young Sherlock” and what that has to do with a viewmaster. But we all know these vague connections to nostalgic toys are just to tie some otherwise unrelated script to a marketable slice of a recognized property.
This will probably be more in the vein of Jumanji and Zathura…
only reason im a little excited for this is because my professor in college invented this and he’s the coolest cat ever. more than likely it wont happen tho. haha
The only way I could see the Viewmaster getting a movie treatment is if it had a role in Toy Story 3. Make it be able to have it’s own picture discs (or whatever the fuck they’re called) and it would be used as a reconaissance tool.
If this movies does well, does this mean we’re going to get a Slinky movie and a Silly Putty movie? Hollywood is on a roll!
God help us all…..
Aw shucks, and there I was hoping for a movie in the grand tradition of other films with ‘master’ or ‘view in the title. Who could forget…
Beastviewmaster
Viewmasterminds
Drunkenkviewmaster
Puppetviewmaster
Viewmasters of the Universe
Room with a viewmaster
Viewmaster to a kill
Viewmaster of Disguise
Point of viewmaster
The Parallax Viewmaster
Viewmaster & Commander
I bet i’ve forgotten one:)
Maybe the viewmaster spits out the images. Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh my is this going to suck.
Could be that it could be a treasure hunt type film, and the view master may be a magical device that allows people to see things that you wouldn’t normally see with the naked eye.
It’s probably going to be a magic viewmaster that transports a person to the place they are looking at. That’s the only spin I could see writing a script about.
Then my viewmaster would be taking me to the Flintstones and other Hanna Barbara shows. lol
Created in 1939 as a way for money challenged tourists to enjoy 3D stereo-grams of colorful and picturesque locations from around the world
There is the movie, right there. A movie about those who invented it. Anything else is retarded.
this trumps monopoly.
“What could be the dumber than a movie based on the Atari Video game Asteroids?”
A Stretch Armstrong film….oh wait thats already in the works.
What?
W.H.A.T?
I give up. Hollywood is dead.