Originally published at: Bad Robot is gearing up to make a Hot Wheels movie | Boing Boing
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Come on, we all know that that has been done and it is called Real Steel.
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All the more reason to look for Matchbox Cars. I liked the idea the cars had their own little garage. Ah well, maybe people don’t even know what matches are all about let alone match boxes were.
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here wasn’t enough story to justify a two-hour commitment from an audience.
Just wait for the next round when they start adapting litRPG serials. I’m currently hooked on one where the protagonist is a half eaten apple core in a garbage dump.
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Surely this has been attempted and scrapped several times before now?
(On that note, what happened to the movies based on Monopoly, Tetris, and Candyland that were kicking around for a while? Did someone with some sense actually step in?)
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I think “movie about cars funded by Mattel wherein a lovable celebrity (the rock?) must deadpan ‘gotta admit…these wheels are hot’” would be a more accurate description here. I just can’t imagine what kind of plot relevance there would be to calling it a hot wheels movie, a brand with - AFAIK - zero backstory. Unless it’s a Brave Little Toaster/Toy Story style story about the fate of a group of toys, in which case, I’m in.
I feel like this is the level of IP more appropriate for JJ Abrams’ “talents” than Star Trek or Star Wars.
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Hot Wheels aren’t just plain cars. They can lean into all the weird variants.
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View-Master??
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A big road trip to see seven, fourteen or twenty-one mid century tourist attractions in person with a relative who is dying of an unspecified illness that makes them cough ominously from time to time.
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Perhaps the exception proving the rule, but impossible seems not quite accurate.
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Surely this has been attempted and scrapped several times before now?
Hot Wheels movies have been created several times before this latest attempt. I took the family to see the first of these Hot Wheels movies in the theatre. It was generic mediocre kid-friendly content IIRC.
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I mean I feel like Blaze and The Monster Machines is basically what you’d get out of a Hot Wheels movie… I think my 4 year old would certainly approve. The 9 year old, not so much.
Or are we going more kid friendly Fast and Furious? The older might be on board with that.
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The new MCU (Mattel Cinematic Universe).
I’m all in for Wishbone, though.
… Oh gods I forgot the Masters of the Universe movie existed. I had purged it from my memories in the attempt to keep my childhood ones intact.
There was a Hot Wheels Saturday-morning cartoon in the late 60s.
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