I can guess what a script for this might be: a magical View-Master brings to life the images it shows. In 3D.
But after that, what’s next? Will every object end up as a film? How about one about a bar of soap? A guy sleeping? Oops, Warhol already did that. I want to see a film about a box of Kleenex. Or that anti-fart stuff, Beano. Call it, Gone With The Wind. Rats, that’s been done, too. Yeah, like that matters…
View-Master, the Fisher-Price toy with little 3-D picture discs of mountains, rivers and caverns that kids could rotate through a viewfinder, is the latest vintage toy getting a second life on the big screen.
DreamWorks is in negotiations to acquire movie rights to the toy from Mattel (which owns Fisher-Price) and has asked writer-producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to do some “Transformers”-style magic on it.
Brad Caleb Kane, who worked as a writer-producer on the duo’s Fox series “Fringe,” is on board to write the screenplay. Kurtzman and Orci would produce.
Story specifics are being kept under wraps, though Kane, who during the holiday weekend sent out a message on Twitter announcing his involvement, said, “It’ll be like the old ’80s Amblin movies: ‘Goonies,’ ‘Young Sherlock’ … in that vein.” (That post has since been taken down.)
The Kurtzman-Orci production banner has specialized in Amblin-style movies. Kurtzman and Orci do have experience with toy brands, as well: Their resumes include the two “Transformers” movies, which are based on Hasbro toys.
Learn more about View-Master. And then there’s the artist who works in what he calls VladMaster.
