Jaw on floor re this:
Click. Click. The View-Master may be coming to the bigscreen.DreamWorks has tapped Brad Caleb Kane to pen a script based on the nostalgic toy that showed 3-D images from movies and tourist sites.
What other nostalgic toy can Hwood exploit next as a movie? ColorForms? Wooly Willy? Lincoln Logs?
Have no fear re ViewMaster: The Movie:
Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci will produce the pic based on the stereoscopic device, introduced 80 years ago.
Kurtzman and Orci are producing which with recent activity like here, here, and here suggests they are now involved in every project in Hwood! Moreover:
Kane, a “Fringe” co-producer and writer, revealed in a recent Twitter posting that the project would resemble 1980s Amblin movies such as “The Goonies” and “Young Sherlock.”
Well, that makes it all right. Goonies is one of those movies that Hwood denizens always mention as a pet project to emulate. So I guess we’re looking at “Goonies: The ViewMaster Years.”
Set aside the apparent absurdity of the premise, put yourself in the shoes of Brad Caleb Kane. How would you take a ViewMaster, then craft a Goonies-like story?
Hmmmmmm, how 'bout the Hula Hoop, Etch-a-Scetch, the Slinky, Tic-Tac-Toe… I guess Hollywood can make pretty much anything into a move……
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Off the top of my head, the viewmaster would be a transportation device. Click it and you get send through space and time. And they eventually need to run into a character who proudly declares "That's just a toy! I AM the ViewMaster!"
But I don't think this is silly enough to top Monopoly as "Blade Runner II" with evil mega-corporations, directed by Ridley Scott.
This one leaves me scratching my head "ViewMaster: The Movie" just doesn't conjure up anything in my head that something along the lines of a Saturday Night Live spoof. How would anyone manage to pull this off? But I think a better question is Why?
By the way, I'm all for Goonies-style movies, but why base it on an outdated toy that was never much fun to play with anyway?
Yep. I'd kill myself.
I'm holding out for the Light Bright movie directed by David Fincher.