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Game Boy is now a movie

5:25 PM on 02.05.2007   |   Faith

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Alert the internets! Disney is making another video game movie. Though it may not be as awesome as Tron, or even as awesome as the Tron level of Kingdom Hearts II, Disney’s newest project “Game Boys” sounds like it has a potential.

Scheduled for release in 2008, Game Boys follows the story of two 30-year-old gamers hired by the Department of Homeland Security to recruit an army of gamers to battle the live monsters created from the video game they have already mastered.

So far only Jerry Bruckheimer has been attached to the project as producer, so we’ll have to wait to see who lands the lead roles of our heroic gamers. Please no Adam Sandler and no friends of Adam Sandler because I refuse to see another "Grandma’s Boy". I could deal with another “The Wizard”, especially if Wii remotes are used.

Look for this movie in the new year to see if it bombs or is just one long advertisment for a new game.

[Via MovieInsider.com








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demonelite's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 17:33
demonelite
Tron was a great film, but knowing modern Disney Game Boys will be a pile of steaming horse poo.

Game Boys also sounds like a bit of a gay name for a film.
deiga-the-semivaliant's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 17:38
deiga-the-semivaliant
Even the premise sounds a little rediculous.
Faith's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 17:42
Faith
We can have hope - maybe they'll use the kid from The Wizard movie as a great inside joke.
-D-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 17:44
-D-
Bruckheimer as director? I think it should be "producer."

Either way, this movie is going to suck.
Hammerhand's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 17:44
Hammerhand

This will be nothing short of awful.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 17:48
Aaron Mxy Yost
PROTIP: Tron has always sucked.

And yeah, they should cast the guy who played Lucas and Fred Savage.
MIKEisONfire84's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 17:52
MIKEisONfire84
My girlfriend and I just bought The Wizard like two days ago,fantastic movie.The power glove...
Hammerhand's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 17:55
Hammerhand
^^^ Million Dollar Man FTW!
Milofo's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 17:56
Milofo
Wasn't the Wizard one long advertisment for Super Mario Bros 3? People seem to enjoy that around here. Anyway hopefully they can make it work, although chances are slim.
TheBrain's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 18:01
TheBrain
Worst plot idea ever.
MIKEisONfire84's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 18:04
MIKEisONfire84
I just bought it...The movie is just one long advertisment for Mario 3...and the power glove.So worth it.
brad drac's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 18:12
brad drac
-> Mxyzptlk:
Pro tip: You are tron's bitch, and you like it.
maximum0v3rdriv3's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 18:27
maximum0v3rdriv3
Grandma's boy was great. anyone who says any different has no sense of humor and shouldn't be allowed to judge movies.

yeah, i said it.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 18:36
Aaron Mxy Yost
@ brad drac:

I'm well aware I'm in the minority in my dislike of Tron. :)
Faith's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 18:57
Faith
yeah, producer. My bad.
OldschoolVgamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 19:12
OldschoolVgamer
Hey Faith! I like how you say you "please no Adam Sandler and no friends of Adam Sandler" as that is how I think too.
bhive01's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 19:21
bhive01
I think we should nominate Summa and Greybush for the roles. Although, what peripheral could possibly fill the role of the powerglove in The Wizard? The Wiimote is too normal now. It'd have to be something like the screen in Minority Report.
Ham Vagina's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 19:45
Ham Vagina
Hey how bad could it be if Bruckheimer is attached to it? *Rolls Eyes*
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 19:52
Bob Muir
Wasn't this already made in 1984 and called "The Last Starfighter?" The only thing different is the setting; "The Last Starfighter" was in space, this is on Earth with monsters.

It's like Jumanji and Zathura, the same exact story, just in a different location.
CannibalCalvin 's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 21:06
CannibalCalvin
Ho! The clever space between "game" and "boy" is enough to avoid a lawsuit with nintendo.
Stratus's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 21:15
Stratus
This sounds like a Spy Kids movie plot.
Jordan Devore's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 21:50
Jordan Devore
Grandma's boy is pretty funny when you aren't in a normal state of mind.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 21:54
Aaron Mxy Yost
@ Grim:

Everyone I know who told me it was hilarious has been a pothead, so that's what I figured. :)
bmdubya's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/05/2007 22:41
bmdubya
Grandma's Boy is funny even if you aren't high. But this movie sounds like the episode of South Park where Kenny gets a PSP and then God kills him so he can command the army of Heaven using the golden PSP.
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2007 10:08
BlindsideDork
Grandma's Boy is just GREAT! I remembering deciding to rent it instead of buying it in case it sucked and I regreted not buying it. But I own it now and I took it to a friend's house and NO ONE except for one person wanted to watch it just cause it had "Adam Sandler" association with it but we couldn't find anything else to watch so we put it in and everyone LOVE it (some were high, some weren't) and they all said that they were going to try to stop buy walmart or some store to buy it on the way home...

Grandma's Boy is just GOOD.
Azrael's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2007 13:48
Azrael
BlindsideDork: Yeah grandma's boy is the best movie about
gaming ever!(insert 100 exclamation marks here)

It explains the whole game making process so realistically, it takes one (1!) guy (an excentric genious) locked in a single room with one (1) computer to make an entire game (textures, levels, models, voice acting)! and 100 drunk beta testers getting high to test it! of course! (pounds in his head) how could this answer have elluded me so much time! They must have studied the development process for months to realize that one!

ALSO you can create your very own game using an xbox (1) in your own home! (I have no clue HOW though!) just be careful not to lose your game DVD because is your _only copy_ and if someone takes it they can claim is theirs! is not like you have the source code[i] in your freakin computer or something! that movie [i]permeates reality through its every pore!

Oh yeah, if thats any indication, game boys is not just going to be a stupid excuse for a lame movie with a marketting ploy oh noes, is going redefine cinema as we know it!!
brad drac's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2007 14:04
brad drac
-> bhive: "I love my playstation portable, it's so bad."
BaconFat's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2007 14:21
BaconFat
30 year old gamers?

who are they trying to attract with that?!

oh wait, thats (almost) me
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