Candy Land: The Movie
Just when everybody thought they've put aside their childhood memories of Candy Cane Forest and Gum Drop Mountain, Universal Studios drags them back again.
According to Daily Variety, the studio has inked a deal with screenwriter Etan Cohen--the midwife of Mike Judge's Beavis and Butthead and Idiocracy--to direct a film based on the popular 1940-49 board game. Director Kevin Lima, of Disney and Pixar fame, will shoot the film.
The film is the first of many to emerge out of a deal made last year between Universal and Hasbro toys, whose properties include "G.I. Joe" and "Transformers."
No word yet on when the film will go into production, but the proposed movie has been described as "comedy and family faire."
Before emerging on film, Candy Land was a popular children's board game during the post-war years. Its easy-to-understand directions and straightforward plot--the game centered around a king who had gone missing--shot it to the top of the list of most requested toys for baby boomers, before enjoying a brief revival during the 1980s and early '90s.
