How to Make A Board Game-based Movie Successful

"Sorry!"

I don't have a Clue how would that be succesful.

maxmordon said:

I don't have a Clue how would that be succesful.

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Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm as dense as a lead pipe, can you throw me some rope? Shit, my damn lightbulb just blew out. I better get a candlestick, which is in the dining room on the other side of the house. Luckily, I have a secret passage from my study to the library so as to not disturb Mrs. White who is a light sleeper, I'll be right back.

In the mean time, I'll forward this to my friend Professor Plum, he's a sharp as a knife, I bet he'll know what you mean.

God, I hate mysteries, someone shoot me and put me out of my misery.

Mel...

dgiharris said:

God, I hate mysteries, someone shoot me and put me out of my misery.

Mel...

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I might shoot you for the run-on sentences...

Board games should be left alone. Did you have this in mind when asking the question, Ben? *shudders* Just imagine Ridley filling that set up.

I've got another one: How do you run a perfectly good premise for a movie?



Give it to Tim Burton.

(and i'm not talking Alice--talking 9, actually--but it could just as easily apply to Alice)

*insert drumroll here*

ETA: And in a horrible commercial fiction-like twist, the screenwriter for the Monopoly movie is the same person who wrote 9: Monopoly Still on Track for 2012

They made Operation into a movie and called it Saw.

I'm still waiting for the Pictionary: The Movie.

mariacycle said:

LOL Cyia! I don't think Jumanji was a game before the movie but it's still a movie centered around a board game... I figured this post was about D&D or something, though.

While Tim Burton is a one-trick pony, I think we're forgetting the trick isn't *exactly* ruining movies, it's casting Johnny Depp and HBC to make the movies "dark." Potato, potato?

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Jumanji was definitely a surprise for me with how good it was.

I thought it would be super lame, but they made it work.

one of those movies were you really felt you were part of the adventure

Mel...

Jumanji was AWESOME.

AND SO WAS CLUE!

Yes. Clue is the awesomest board game movie ever made. Ever.

Cyia said:

Yes. Clue is the awesomest board game movie ever made. Ever.

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Communism was just a red herring.

As for who shot Mr. Body...I did! And now I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife!

The whole thing was a matter of life after death. Now that he's dead, I have a life.

For the remainder of mankind's existence, there will never be a board game movie as good as Clue. Dare I say, there will never be a murder-mystery-comedy as good as Clue.

I saw it last year for like the twentieth time and I still laughed my ass off.

Certain movies should be retired and banned from hollywood's remake fetish.

Mel...

News flash: "RISK: The Movie" is slated for release in the next two to fifty years. They Might Be Giants are rumored to be engaged for the soundtrack.

The "Alaska into Kamchatka" scene will be dynamite; I, for one, can't wait.

Triangle Man, Triangle Man - Triangle Man hates Particle Man...

Clue is one of my all-time favorite movies. Movies just don't know how to have fun like that anymore.

poetinahat said:

News flash: "RISK: The Movie" is slated for release in the next two to fifty years. They Might Be Giants are rumored to be engaged for the soundtrack.

The "Alaska into Kamchatka" scene will be dynamite; I, for one, can't wait.

Triangle Man, Triangle Man - Triangle Man hates Particle Man...

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I would see that in a heartbeat!

Anyone else think Candyland would make a particularly horrifying movie? I can see Tim Burton snatching that one up.

I'd like to see Sorry! The Movie. A bunch of people trying to get home but pushing each other out of the way. Like the end of Ferris Bueller...only with more people and feature length! Trouble could also be a potential blockbuster.

Also, this isn't technically a board game, but that toy where the butterflies shoot out of the elephant's nose and you have to catch them in a net? Total gold right there.

Man, I could do this all day...

Turning Clue into a movie wasn't that much of a stretch. You already have a premise of a murder mystery in a big mansion full of weird murder weapons and secret passages. You even have names and pictures for six main characters, so it wouldn't take much work to fill out a personality to match. Since Clue was just a game adaptation of all the murder mysteries that came before it, turning it into a movie almost made sense.

Next you've got monopoly. Okay, I'm assuming it's about a bunch of guys trying to buy up property and bankrupt each other. Maybe one of them even goes to jail. I'm sure you can put a bunch of locations in the movie like Marvin Gardens or whatnot to give it that monopoly feel. It's a bit of a stretch but I guess you could make a movie that relates to the board game, though I can't imagine it'll be much good.

Then there's risk. Though I pray it's a joke and not something they're seriously considering. Now it's been a while since I've played but as far as I can recall it's six colored armies (not countries, or political factions, just colors) and you roll the die to see how well your colored tank attacked the opposing colored tank. I really don't see much of a premise here. There's nothing to base the movie off of; nothing to draw from. Anything that you would need to have an actual plot for a movie (characters, political organizations, motivations for world conquest, etc.) you'd have to make up, so what would it have to do with the original board game other than sharing the name?

This sounds like "We have a really awful script for a war movie that we're never going to sell. Let's see what kind of Trademark we can buy up and slap on this piece of crap to make it half-way sell-able."

No, this is the death of Hollywood. For the last decade it was comic books, now it's board games. Crap board games at that. They've really got nothing left.

Viktor, the idea of Monopoly was released and it's awful, it will be about a guy who plays Monopoly who falls asleep and wakes up Monopoly City where everything is Monopoly and will have to try to buy the whole board.


Anybody played 1212 Dead End Drive? Just like Clue has a set of defined characters and a plot: bunch of people trapped in a mansion trying to kill each other to be the heir of late Aunt Agatha before the detective arrives.

poetinahat said:

News flash: "RISK: The Movie" is slated for release in the next two to fifty years. They Might Be Giants are rumored to be engaged for the soundtrack.

The "Alaska into Kamchatka" scene will be dynamite; I, for one, can't wait.

Triangle Man, Triangle Man - Triangle Man hates Particle Man...

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Man I hope they find someone who can pronounce the "I" place and the "Y" place.

I wonder how they'll overcome the predictability. I mean, we all know that whoever takes Australia at the beginning will win.

The Cultivation Game was a bit of a local phenomenon, produced by friends of my brother's
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28845/the-cultivation-game

I'd love to see a flick made out of this one. The casting would be obvious, I'd think.

BenPanced said:

Do you mean 1313 Dead End Drive? I've heard of it but not played it.

Maybe Tim Burton can get a hold of CandyLand or Hi-Ho, Cherry-O!...

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Damn it! They gave me the wrong address again. I started to suspect wondering why an excentric old millionaire would live in the parking lot of Wendy's.