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Not A Joke: The 'Hungry Hungry Hippos' Movie Is Really Happening

by Ben Pearson
October 4, 2012
Source: LA Times

This is one of those days where you just have to shake your head in despair at Hollywood's decision-making abilities. But one company's trash is another's treasure, as The LA Times reports Emmett/Furla Films has agreed to finance and produce three board game movies for Hasbro after Universal decided to drop a lot of those properties. The three in question are Monopoly (which has been gestating for awhile), Action Man, and yes, even Hungry Hungry Hippos. No word yet on the approach for that film, whether they'll try to make it live action, a CGI hybrid, or fully animated, but there's news on the other projects below. Read on!

Let's think about this for a second. How can they seriously be contemplating making Hungry Hungry Hippos into a movie? Will it be a commentary on the obesity problem in America, similar to what "South Park" did last night in its most recent episode? Could it center around an eating contest for kids, with the children being on a team called "The Hippos"? Or would they just rip off Battleship completely, like this?

As for the other projects, Ridley Scott has been in discussions to produce and direct Monopoly for over five years now, and though it looks like he's finally stepped out of the director's chair for this project, he'll still be producing alongside Emmett/Furla. That one is set to be first out of the gate and slated to start production in 2013, and we can only hope the final movie turns out something like this Funny or Die video.

Finally, Action Man will center on the British character that was himself based on the American G.I. Joe, and if the massive delay of G.I. Joe: Retaliation and the general sour reception to the first film wasn't enough to scare away Emmett/Furla from trying to essentially give those projects a makeover with British leads, I'm not sure what else they need to tell them that this isn't exactly a great idea. That being said, put Jason Statham in the lead role and you'll have my attention. Stay tuned as these projects develop.

Filed under Development, Movie News

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THEBATMAN

i refuse to believe this......
- Lt.Gordon
  
  It is not the movie we deserve ,but it is the movie we are going to get .
http://www.facebook.com/nicolas.dallibortolot Nicolas Dalli Bortolot

my dream as a cinematographer was to work in hollywood... i dont know what to do now... maybe stay in argentina making independent movies with viggo mortensen.... HA
JerseyBoy

It's simple, make the hippos a race of alien creatures. Get Michael Bay to do the project and add in his usual shenanigans and there a blockbuster hit!
- weewee
  
  It's simple.We eat the Michael Bay.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Sleider/1847907840 Brian Sleider

Really Hollywood? Are you really so out of Ideas we are hitting up board games........oh wait too late. I have lost all faith in Hollywood to make new and compelling content.
DAVIDPD

I can already see it: HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS 2: ENTER THE NOM.
JBrotsis

Simply speechless. Although in another universe, seeing a battleship like movie against giant crazy hippos would be awesome to watch. But then again, that's something you'd see on the syfy channel.
Zeus

If it's anything like the commercials, it'll be amazing!
Richie G

Maybe they're not individual movies. Could they be doing a boardgame version of Wreck it Ralf? That might actually be good
Armitage

Teenage Mutant Ninja Hippos... why not? Dumb Dumb Dumb. I couldn't bring myself to pay to see Battleship (even though I ended up seeing it and enjoyed it... but they didn't make a penny off me). Who makes these decisions with goofy tie-ins. I love giant monster movies, but the connection to a kid's game kills it for me.