American Gladiators: The Edge Of Reason
FINALLY, Hollywood is taking all of the fun and excitement and adventure and intrigue of American Gladiators and bringing it to the big-screen. AT LONG LAST. From Variety:
Johnny Ferraro, creator of the "American Gladiators" TV franchise, is bringing a live-action adaptation of the property to the bigscreen.The film will be based on the TV show that first aired in 1988 and has been on the air every year except one during the past 20 years. Most recently, NBC aired a primetime installment in 2008. The show has aired in more than 90 countries, with the format adapted for the local market in 14 of them.
The thing is, American Gladiator is already just a family friendly version of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Running Man, right? Arnold Schwarzenegger's Walking Man. And sure, the prisoner-competition genre is as popular as ever with last summer's Death Race and this summer's Gamer (not to mention the tangential prisoner-hunt-on-private-island genre, with movies like Surviving the Game, and The The Condemned). But just because that style of movies is going strong doesn't mean that America is just as hungry for the escape-from-foam-lances-and-tennis-ball-cannons genre.
Hollywood: "Imagine an exhausting race through a completely safe pre-Apocalyptic battlefield of Nerf guns, shoulder pads, and bright blue pools of lukewarm water."
Gabe: "No."
Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in Bad Idea Jeans, What America Wants
Tags: American Gladiators
I've heard ABC is in talks to bring 'Wipeout' to the big screen as a buddy-action vehicle starring Ray Liotta and John Cena.
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But if they can get Mickey Rourke to star and Darren Aronofsky to direct. . .
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"I'm just a broken down piece of Nitro."
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I demand a big-screen adaptation on the classic Nickelodeon game show Finders Keepers!
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"... has been on the air every year except one during the past 20 years."
How sad of a statement is this? It's so close to being "on air for 20 years," but sounds so much less respectable and commanding.
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If Two Scoops isn't in it, it won't be worth watching at all.
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If Two Scoops isn't in it, it won't be worth watching at all.
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If we say the same things over and over, it won't be worth commenting about at all.
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Sorry, guys.
In my defence, when I made that wish upon that star- you know-for someone to figure out how to adapt power ball for the big screen; I was drunk, joking, and pretty sure it was a sattelite...Who knew?
I banish myself to the gauntlet, never to return.
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No
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