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Forum - View topicParamount, Hasbro Plan One Film Universe Based on Micronauts, G.I. Joe, Visionairies, M.A.S.K., ROM
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AnimeLordLuis
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M.A.S.K nobody knows command doesn't start with a K. Anyway in ANY universe I can't see this project working out.
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bahamut623
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Scrape the bottom of that nostalgia barrel.
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HEY!
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My what a mess you've made Marvel.
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Mohawk52
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Great yet another 115 minute toy commercial, sold at all fine stores and some rubbish ones as well.
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Kadmos1
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Not to mention, are we actually going to see this? This sounds so ambitious that I will actually watch if/when it gets released. I wouldn't be surprised if 5 years from now that they are still in the planning stage. |
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Lycosyncer
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Is Paramount/Hasbro really that desperate to want a Cinematic Universe for themselves as well? I only know G.I. Joe the most out of this group and why isn't Transformers added into this Hasbro Cinematic Universe? Say what you want about those films but there's no denying how hugely lucrative the film franchise is and leaving Hasbro's biggest cash cow out of this universe would just feel rather odd.
If this attempt is successful, I wouldn't be surprised if Hasbro thinks about rebooting Battleship and especially Jem and the Holograms and add them into it due to how well known they are among the Hasbro fans. |
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Cutiebunny
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They already rebooted the Jem franchise this year with a horrible live action film, complete with an "updated" premise to appeal to the Millenials.
Needless to say, it tanked. Badly. I doubt any company is going to want to touch the Jem franchise again in the near future because of that. |
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WingKing
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ROM, seriously? That toy was a complete bust, and I've never met anyone who grew up in the late 70s who's ever said to me, "You know what I'd love to see again? More ROM." Now I will say that I used to read the Marvel tie-in comic when I was a kid and that was actually pretty good (and lasted a lot longer than the toy did). If they adapted the movie following Marvel's storyline then it could maybe, possibly, potentially be worth watching, but Marvel being part of the Disney umbrella probably won't allow that - competing studios and all.
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Hoppy800
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GI Joe is needed BADLY, too many people here are not respecting America due to PC tyranny, we need those good old American morals back.
ROM, never heard of it. |
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skogga
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ROM, Space Knight and Micronauts! I had the comic books from issue #1 up. This would have worked 30 years ago, I have no idea why the PTB think the time has come? IMO they are not scraping the bottom of the barrel so much as grabbing at straw in the wind.
Hasbro's had an outstanding run of good fortune with MLP:FIM and Transformers I don't know why they would be trying to diversify by reviving these secondary/tertiary level comic and animation series. I believe Hasbro's investor's meeting addresses and reports are public record somewhere, if I was curious enough to go digging. |
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Ziko577
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GI Joe is kinda dead because of dumb decisions made by Hasbro. I liked the original cartoon growing up but the later versions really screwed over the canon at times. Extreme was cancelled after 2 seasons due to low ratings blamed on toy sales, Sigma-6 was too much like a typical anime to me and I hated it and hell I'm an anime fan. Renegades tried to recapture the seriousness of the original but the poor character designs and toy sales being lax hurt the series to the point of cancellation. |
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EricJ2
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They've basically abandoned any game property that CAN'T be made to take the place of Michael Bay's Transformers (so there goes the Clue reboot...
 ), and like every other studio, thinks "Linked Universe" is now the Gold-Rush Catchphrase of the Day by studios who don't have the faintest notion what it means.
Another overconfident Battleship should be happening to sink it all right about now. 
Not to mention, it would be nice to get a third GI Joe movie that actually resembles the franchise: The first movie was hounded by angry villagers for just reminding them of TF2, and was distracted by all that "ninja flashback" nonsense, while the second movie couldn't afford to bring back the original sets and characters, didn't bring in the iconic Cobra stuff until the end of movie, and let's not even bring up Jem & the Holograms. Can't somebody just do it right once? |
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EricJ2
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Actually, like Candyland, Ouija and Rock-em Sock-em Robots ("Real Steel", anyone?), Hasbro Films sold Jem off with some other previously floated projects to the highest (or any) third-party bidder, and concentrated on the studio initiative to only make Transformers replacements. Jem was bought up by the producers of Justin Bieber's movies, and when they found out that Jon Chu had directed both a Bieber concert movie and the second GI Joe, well, you can take a guess. As for the script, the producers reportedly just took an existing "Girl and her BFF's become YouTube stars" script that was lying around, and pasted in any last-minute pertinent names and references as needed. (Synergy is a cute comedy-relief pet robot?...NO.) |
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CandisWhite
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As far as movies go? Yeah, it'll be awhile, if ever, before anyone touches 'Jem' with a pole that's under 20 feet. As far as 'Jem' as a franchise? Hasbro is enjoying success, modest by Transformers' standards but still hits in their own right, with the IDW 'Jem' comic and the several years old/ several dolls deep Integrity Toys' line. If you are interested, and haven't already, I highly recommend checking both out. 2) Yeah, that Jem movie, from its announcement, did nothing but break my heart. A small consolation is that it officially has the lowest box office take ever for a movie given a full release; Oogiloves earned more money. |
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Guile
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If DC can't make a successful movie universe with its big name heroes, I don't think Hasbro can do any better with these very obscure titles.
That is probably for the best because Jem is one of those franchises that needs to be handled a certain way to work, but that wouldn't maximize profits in the eyes of companies. Jem needs to be an embodiment of the 80s era just as Beck is an embodiment of classic rock. The movie was terrible for many reasons, but updating it to be the YouTube/modern pop generation was one of the biggest betrayals to the franchise roots. I haven't read the comic, but the emphasis on Tumblr pandering really turns me off from it. I think Jem is best left in the 80s where it originated, because unless a company is willing to do a time capsule with that era and have the show set in the 80s or heavily influenced by the 80s glamrock style, it's not going to work. |
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