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Paramount Pictures and Hasbro are embarking on a new universe of interrelated characters and stories. The studio — which is already in the process of expanding its Transformers universe after four movies based on that popular Hasbro toy line — is announcing a new deal with Hasbro on Tuesday that will see Paramount and Allspark Pictures, Hasbro’s film label, build an interconnected, cross-property onscreen universe featuring characters from five of Hasbro’s other brands: G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionairies, M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) and ROM: Spaceknight.

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That last GI Joe movie, the one with rock, was fun as hell. But still, lol.

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Lol no one fucking cares about any of that shit.

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I've never even heard of three of those things.
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Visionaries and MASK at least had animated series to go with them. ROM and Micronauts never made it past the action figure stage.
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I only know Joe and MASK. :lol Maybe I'll look up Visionaries.
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I can't wait for Battleship to be tied into this. :letsfukk

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I can't wait for Battleship to be tied into this. :letsfukk

And Jem too. :letsfukk

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We already had the only GI Joe movies we need

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Disney already did a GI Joe cinematic universe, it was called Toy Story.
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MASK was my favourite licenced series of toys outside of Star Wars as a kid

Surely we can't be too far away from a Marshall Bravestarr reboot?
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The Stephen Sommers movie was great. The sequel missed the mark but was still passable.

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This technology will become more affordable for the middle-class over time, and the American Dream will shift from home ownership to cinematic universe ownership.
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I can't wait for Battleship to be tied into this. :letsfukk

And Jem too. :letsfukk

And Magic: The Gathering. :letsfukk
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So they won't be sticking this to their Transformer franchise to try and prop it up?

Also, this made me look up Hasbro Studios upcoming slate:
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Upcoming films
Ouija 2   Universal Pictures
Allspark Pictures
Blumhouse Productions
Platinum Dunes   October 21, 2016[31]   

My Little Pony   Allspark Pictures
Lionsgate (distribution)[32]   November 3, 2017[33]   Animated

Transformers 5   Paramount Pictures   2017   Pre-Production

G.I. Joe 3   Paramount Pictures
MGM Films   TBA   

Hungry Hungry Hippos   Emmett/Furla Films[1]   TBA   

Tonka   Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures Animation
Happy Madison [34]   TBA   

Magic: The Gathering   20th Century Fox[25]   TBA   

Play-Doh   20th Century Fox
Chernin Entertainment
Feigco[35]   TBA   

Beyblade   Paramount Pictures
Disruption Entertainment
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Nelvana[36]   TBA   

Monopoly   Allspark Pictures
Lionsgate[28]   TBA   

Dungeons & Dragons   Allspark Pictures
Sweetpea Entertainment
Warner Bros. Pictures[37]   TBA   
BEYBLADE'S BACK!

This better be the films tagline:
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the blades are mostly metal and more dangerous than ever

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Ouija 2 :dead

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Ouija made some decent bank, a sequel is unsurprising.

and we came thisclose to getting a Ridley Scott made Monopoly film, for reals. Even after Gem and the Holograms being perhaps the biggest major studio bomb of the last thirty years, these guys should still have juice enough to get at least some of these terrible ideas made. Why not try Clue again, like, but, less funny but really dark and gritty this time, but PG-13 and shitty. Yeah, that'll probably happen.

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Clue is fucking perfect and I will burn Hollywood to the ground if they ever attempt remaking it.

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They were supposed to, it was listed in the announcement of Battleship, Ouija, and Monopoly like seven years ago.

From 2011:
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Universal Pictures has quietly dropped out of Clue, one of the seven Hasbro games properties the studio contracted to make into movies in a ground-breaking six-year exclusive deal signed in 2008. Clue becomes the third project out of seven to be dropped by Universal (Monopoly and Magic, The Gathering were also kicked to the curb), but none of those projects are dead. In the case of the murder mystery board game Clue, Hasbro is funding the development and producing the film with Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink. Verbinski, director of the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, Rango and the upcoming Lone Ranger, still plans to direct Clue, and he and Blind Wink’s John Krauss are producing with Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir.
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Is all this a clue that Universal no longer wants to roll the dice on board game movies? Insiders say no. Rather, they tell me that Universal and Hasbro gradually narrowed their focus to the four films that most made sense for the studio: Battleship, the Peter Berg-directed summer 2012 action movie that stars Taylor Kitsch and Liam Neeson, with Universal just releasing its first trailer (below); Stretch Armstrong, which has Rob Letterman directing and Twilight Saga’s Taylor Lautner attached to play the rubbery title character; Candy Land, which is being written by Kung Fu Panda 2 co-writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, who’ve described the film as Lord of the Rings, with edibles; and Ouija, which has McG attached to direct and Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form producing with Ian Bryce and Hasbro’s Goldner and Schneir.

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I knew they were trying to but I was optimistic wiser minds prevailed.

Better not try that shit again.

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I found the original "pitch" I made on another forum for Battleship when it was first announced:
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What they should do is make it a standard naval war movie full of special effects, and then at the end there's a giant battle and people are gettin blown apart, their body parts ripped apart, the ships exploding in the worst possible ways, then one of the battleships gets torn apart and starts sinking. And there's this one sailor who is the main character and he's on that battleship and he looks into the camera with tears clutching a picture frame as it sinks.

Then you hear this like seven year old yell out "you sunk my battleship!" And it zooms out and it's just some kids playing the board game.

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Then the doorbell rings, and the mom answers it and there's a guy from the Navy standing there and she bursts into tears. And it cuts to black.
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I mean that's basically what the Lego movie did.

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omg Duplo :dead :dead :dead :dead

I should watch that.

VomKriege

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Oh jeez that Monopoly rumour. What a callback... Little did I know back then that it wouldn't be so absurd today.

On Transformers, Bay's iteration is so militaristic that you could probably insert Joes there already.
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When are we getting a Bore Cinematic Universe
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Visionaries and MASK at least had animated series to go with them. ROM and Micronauts never made it past the action figure stage.
Micronauts and ROM both had moderately successful comic book runs at Marvel. The latter never interested me, but the former was the first comic book I ever collected regularly. I recall Michael Golden did some amazing art for it, and possibly written by Bill Mantlo...?

When are we getting a Bore Cinematic Universe
We're actually just a subset of the Taco Bell Continuity.

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There's a Gambit movie?

Trent Dole

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Visionaries and MASK at least had animated series to go with them. ROM and Micronauts never made it past the action figure stage.
Micronauts and ROM both had moderately successful comic book runs at Marvel. The latter never interested me, but the former was the first comic book I ever collected regularly. I recall Michael Golden did some amazing art for it, and possibly written by Bill Mantlo...?

When are we getting a Bore Cinematic Universe
We're actually just a subset of the Taco Bell Continuity.
So you're saying we're Demolition Man.
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Visionaries and MASK at least had animated series to go with them. ROM and Micronauts never made it past the action figure stage.
Micronauts and ROM both had moderately successful comic book runs at Marvel. The latter never interested me, but the former was the first comic book I ever collected regularly. I recall Michael Golden did some amazing art for it, and possibly written by Bill Mantlo...?

When are we getting a Bore Cinematic Universe
We're actually just a subset of the Taco Bell Continuity.
So you're saying we're Demolition Man.