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SFX: JJ Abrams Considering Micronauts Movie
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No, really, a *Micronauts* movie? Hollywood is officially out of ideas. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125737028160428961.html 13 days ago |
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http://bit.ly/1c1TYL Creativity is official dead in hollywood; it probably has been for years, but here's the final sign. 14 days ago |
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Latest hot stars in Hollywood films are toys such as: Barbie, Transformers and GI Joe. http://bit.ly/1c1TYL 15 days ago |
RevolutionSF Newsblast: Wil Wheaton, Yogi Bear, Micronauts (News)
RevolutionSF —
... . It'll be one of those live action / CGI abominations with humans and cartoon people living together, total chaos. Everything we ever liked when we were kids will soon be a movie. It's just crazy. What's next? Micronauts? JJ Abrams Might Do Micronauts Buried in this story is news about JJ Abrams working on a Micronauts movie . The Micronauts were toys and a sweet Marvel comic in the 1970s. But this got barely a notation, and everything Abrams touches gets tweeted out the wazoo. So it's probably not filming this week. Maybe next week, though.
JJ Abrams Considering Micronauts Movie
SFX —
[image] According to The Wall Street Journal JJ (Star Trek, Lost, Alias) Abrams is in talks to produce a movie about the Japanese interchangeable toys Micronauts, to which Hasbro just acquired the rights. First released in Japan in 1974 (under the name Microman), the toys were imported to the States by the Mego Corporation in 1976. They also became the stars of a Marvel comic which debuted in 1979 created by Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden. In this storyline the Micronauts are beings from the Microverse who, when they come to Earth, are the size of toys. Abrams has also been ...
Micronauts the Movie? J.J. Abrams? WTH?
SciFiCool.com | No Anal Probing Involved —
... on November 6, 2009 | [image] The Wall Street Journal , of all places, currently has an article on Hollywood’s gold rush to make movies out of toys and board games following the phenomenal success of Michael Bay’s “Transformers”. Toward the end of the article, it mentions that “Star Trek’s” (and “Lost” mastermind) J.J. Abrams is currently in discussions to produce a movie based on the Japanese toy line Micronauts, which, coincidentally, Hasbro (the same people behind “Transformers”) has just acquired. Opines Abrams on the validity of a “Micronauts” movie (and toy films in ...
JJ Abrams Gets Small For Micronauts Movie? [Micronauts]
io9 —
... this summer's "Star Trek" film, is in discussions to produce a movie about Japanese toy line Micronauts, which Hasbro just acquired. With Abrams producing, that opens the door for some Kurtzman/Orci involvement, if they could be convinced to jump from the Transformers franchise into another toy universe. We're really keeping our fingers crossed for comic artist and Micronaut lover Paul Pope getting involved on the design side, though. The Cry Goes Out in Hollywood: 'Get Me Mr. Potato Head's Agent!' [Wall Street Journal] ...
