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Ha! RT @MattKelland And yet another board game is being made into a film. After Battleship... Risk! http://is.gd/4NWh8 18 days ago |
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RT @MattKelland: And yet another board game is being made into a film. After Battleship... Risk! http://is.gd/4NWh8 18 days ago |
Sony Attempts World Domination with Adaptation of the Board Game RISK
Collider —
... the craziest idea in Hollywood. They’re just war movies with brand names on them. It’s not the most creative leap but I don’t think anything wrong with a naval battle movie or a strategic war game. There’s potential in each and I’d certainly be more interested to see a “Risk” movie than one based on “Ouija”, another Hasbro board game (and it is a game, not some mystical spirit link) getting the movie treatment.
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Sony adapting Risk
Total Film News —
Just when you thought the avalanche of studios buying board games to make movies from had slowed down, Sony decides to snap up Risk. Hasbro sold off the rights to the company, which will produce the film with Will Smith's company (doubt he'll star in it, but stranger things have happened). If you've never played the game, it locks players in a struggle to control all the world's territories through strategic thinking and military deployment. Well, small, plastic military deployment, at least. And, pushing aside our natural skepticism for a second, we can see how you could at least turn this into a film scenario ...
John C. Reilly & Mary-Louise Parker Join Morgan Freeman & Bruce Willis In 'Red' Comic Book Adaptation, 'Machete' Poster & More...
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[image] — We've been a li ttle ho-hum on the Bruce Willis/Morgan Freeman spy thriller " Red ," an adaptation of Warren Ellis ' comic book directed by Robert Schwentke (" The Time Traveller's Wife "), but the recent news that Helen Mirren was stepping on-board was intriguing. Now John C. Reilly and Mary-Louise Parker , fine actors both, have joined the cast , the former playing a paranoid CIA agent, the latter playing the love interest, a federal pension worker, and we're more than a little intrigued, it's an unusually high-calibre cast for an action-thriller. It's particularly good to see Reilly taking on something more dramatic, ...
SONY TAKES A ‘RISK’ OF BEING RETARDED
Filmdrunk —
... “The strategic thinking and the tactical gambles that players must take in the game are what make Risk a classic, thoroughly engaging game,” said Columbia prexy Doug Belgrad. “Those elements translated into an action-packed, thrilling story are what will make this a uniquely exciting movie.” [Variety] ...
Risk the Board Game Coming to the Big Screen
Movies RSS Feed: UGO —
[image] I once played a game of Risk that lasted so long, by the end I had given up on conquering territories and stuck to dancing around the room, firing imaginary canons, and foaming at the mouth. That's what you get for playing an eight hour match. But hey, they put a warning in the title. Sony executives must have been in a similar state of disarray recently, as they've picked up the Hasbro board game to turn into a motion picture. There's no real plot to the game, but as long as it features ...
