Furby Movie Announced - No joke, Just Sadness
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The Chicago Cubs won the World Series and now we're getting a Furby movie. The apocalypse is coming.
Furby [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/hasbro], right?
Speaking at the American Film Market, The Weinstein Company [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/bob+weinstein], and will, unfortunately, be a mix of live-action and CGI.
Isn't Furby an odd property to be making into a film, though? I mean, those things were really popular ... 15+ years ago. Nowadays? Do kids now even know what a Furby is? And if they do, do they really want to watch them on a screen instead of playing with them? Transformers [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/transformers]? Okay. I understand that. You can create CGI robots and have them smash into each other, basically bringing a kid's imagination to life (in theory; we know how it worked out). But Furby? I can't be alone here in thinking this makes no sense and also sounds like a horrible idea?
Even the Hasbro executives seemed to think this is a joke. No director is attached, but one of them quipped "We're out to David Fincher [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/david+fincher]."
Whatever, movie industry. Keeping giving us toy advertisements dressed up as films.
For probably unrelated reasons, that reminds me: I have to see Trolls [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/trolls] in a couple of hours.
Source: Variety [http://variety.com/2016/film/news/afm-bob-weinstein-furby-movie-twc-dimension-1201907667/]
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The Chicago Cubs won the World Series and now we're getting a Furby movie. The apocalypse is coming.
Furby [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/hasbro], right?
Speaking at the American Film Market, The Weinstein Company [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/bob+weinstein], and will, unfortunately, be a mix of live-action and CGI.
Isn't Furby an odd property to be making into a film, though? I mean, those things were really popular ... 15+ years ago. Nowadays? Do kids now even know what a Furby is? And if they do, do they really want to watch them on a screen instead of playing with them? Transformers [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/transformers]? Okay. I understand that. You can create CGI robots and have them smash into each other, basically bringing a kid's imagination to life (in theory; we know how it worked out). But Furby? I can't be alone here in thinking this makes no sense and also sounds like a horrible idea?
Even the Hasbro executives seemed to think this is a joke. No director is attached, but one of them quipped "We're out to David Fincher [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/david+fincher]."
Whatever, movie industry. Keeping giving us toy advertisements dressed up as films.
For probably unrelated reasons, that reminds me: I have to see Trolls [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/trolls] in a couple of hours.
Source: Variety [http://variety.com/2016/film/news/afm-bob-weinstein-furby-movie-twc-dimension-1201907667/]
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