Film Adaptations of the Strangest Kind

Sometimes one can look at the state of Hollywood films and your jaw can drop at what they are willing to use for story material for movies.

For me, the nadir has got to be the idiotic idea adapting the kiddie board game, Candy Land, for a film.  The worst part about that is that the idea that much more feasible with a film adaptation of the guessing game, Battleship is about to open.

If they have to adapt board games, why can't they use ones with more story potential like Scotland Yard;  the idea of young detectives chasing Mr. X around London feels like there might work.  See this 1980s commercial and you'll understand the idea:

At the same time, the recent announcement of Eddie Murphy starring in a film adaptation of the old Hanna-Barbera animated series, Hong Kong Phooey, sounds much better to me than most people think. The series was shackled with a typical prohibition concerning violence for SAT-AM and seeing the character finally cut loose in battle could definitely work with a Jackie Chan like tone.  Just see Jackie's scenes in this commercial for his North American breakthrough film, substituting HKP for him, and you can see how this could work:

Failing that, they can use the inspiration from this little indulgence from 10 years ago.


Hey, it beats a Candy Land film any day.