The Wall Street Journal had an interesting story up about the swarm of producers and agents on game and toy lines — mentioning, for example, that Hancock’s Will Smith was producing a movie on the game Risk — but one particular sentence really stood out:
J.J. Abrams, who created the TV show “Lost” and directed this summer’s “Star Trek” film, is in discussions to produce a movie about Japanese toy line Micronauts, which Hasbro just acquired.
Micronauts, originally a Japanese toy line, has had its fair share of comics, with Marvel producing 59 issues of related comics, Image producing 11, and Devil’s Due completing three. In their original comics incarnation, they even teamed up with Nightcrawler and the Fantastic Four!
November 6th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Those had some great Michael Golden artwork in the early issues. After him, I also remember Butch Guice did some good early work with them.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I will forever be grateful to Abrams for helping to create Lost, and I’m enjoying Fringe a lot too, but really… This guy needs to be stopped.
Will Smith developing Risk? Aww, hell naw!!
Perhaps there will be some really kick-ass movies featuring Operation, Jenga, and Hungry Hungry Hippos in our lifetimes… We can only hope.
November 14th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
You’d have hopes for such a thing as an animated series. But this is a Hasbro toy line and live acition films based on Transformers/Gi Joe are hardly Oscar material. More like lampooning for MAD Magazine.