"Film based on Battleship boardgame?" Topic

No I'm not making it up Universal have bought the rights to make films based on Monopoly, Candy Land, Battleship and Ouija
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Can't wait for the Battleship one, I wonder if the ships will get sunk by giant pegs! :/

You can't parody Hollywood anymore.

Well, I thought "Clue" was a pretty good movie…

Didn't they do one based on Clue?

Isn't the Die Hard series based on "Chutes and Ladders"?

I suppose the writer's strike has hit Hollywood so hard they have to look to material board games, because Uwe Bohl has pretty much ruined movies based on video games.

OK, htis gives me a GREAT idea. You know how ye kinmgs of olde would play chess on a giant board (and kill the person when they were taken) or so the story goes…

I think we should have a biggame of BATTLESHIP where people are tied into little ships, and the player calles out a square- and blow up a mine under that square (r something like that)…..

maniacal laughter

Let's put Mr. Gawne in the 2-hole PT Boat..

The film based on Clue (or Cluedo to us Brits) was good but the game is based around a murder mystery so not a great leap needed.

But by that reckoning Battleships has already been done "Sink the Bismark" anyone? :)

Darn, Germy got it first, so I'll go with Battle of the River Platte.

Maybe it'll be about two kids playing the game, then a PT boat crashes through the room, chasing them until they're rescued by Robin Williams, oh wait . . .

Where's the writers' strike when we need it?

"Battle of the River Platte"

Isn't that the river in the in the western United States that's a tributary to the Missouri River? Didn't know they could get battleships that far inland.

Sure you don't mean Battle of the River Plate?

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas now…

Can't wait for "Scrabble: the movie"…..

Hey the Battleship movie can't be worse than Pearl Harbor .. can it ?!??

Dave

Actually, "Midway" was kind of like "Battleship".

I think this says it all: link

Actually, "Midway" was kind of like "Battleship".

Midway wasn't too bad if you take out the extremely silly love story. I saw it when it first came out in the sensaround format.

Dave

umm, I thoought this was the best the writers could do coming off of the strike. Actually it's more imaginative than their efforts of thhe last few years.

They probably just bought the rights so no one else could have them. That way if a good idea does come up they'll already own it.

"Hey the Battleship movie can't be worse than Pearl Harbor .. can it ?!??

Dave"

If the leading lady was shaped like a white peg it could.

"Monopoly: The Movie" will be the sequel to "Battleship: The Movie," and will be a rehash of the stale old "beloved character gets lost in the big city" plot. A misplaced ship from a Battleship game will find itself turned into the battleship token on a Monopoly board. Instead of familiar threats like white and red pegs, it will face being knocked over by errant rolls of the dice, and being overtaken by an old shoe.

"Candy Land: The Movie" will probably be a dark re-imagining of the original, like what "Tin Man" did to the Wizard of Oz. Quentin Tarantino will direct.

What will "Ouija: The Movie" be like? Oddly, no one can say in advance.

"Hey the Battleship movie can't be worse than Pearl Harbor .. can it ?!??

Only if it's more like Battlefield Earth.

Cke1st, you must be one of those Hollywood writers!

Hmmm… maybe they could call it, oh, "Victory at Sea". That seems to work.

First, what they probably wanted was Candyland (I can see a kids movie there), and Hasbro said 'the bundle or nothing'. Also, I suspect that they may have gotten the theme park righs as well (remember Universal Studios Tour?), and Battleship and Monopoly might fit in well there.

jumanji anyone?

Damn remakes, Sergei Eisenstein must be spinning in his grave.

Hey, a movie based around Tic Tac Toe was made (Wargames) so maybe we have battling international computers purchasing land, railrods, companies, in foreign countries until they take over the world and the survivors (a guy in a Top Hat, a Seamstress, Snoop Dog, and the people in the Laundry) are left floating on a battleship that the computers target and they have to slide down chutes and climb ladders into the life rafts and they end up on an island controlled by a man who makes candy with strange small men…yepo, sounds like Hollywood to me!

Sounds hit or miss, to me.