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Ready for a View-Master Movie?

July 3, 2009

"Fringe" co-producer/writer Brad Caleb Kane will be writing a movie based on the View-Master toy, which first came on the market in 1939.

He announced on his Twitter account that after he's done penning the sci-fi action-adventure Uprising for director Wolfgang Petersen and Columbia Pictures, he will take on the project for DreamWorks Pictures.

Kane says Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci ("Fringe," Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek) are behind the film and that it will be "like the old 80's Amblin movies: Goonies, Young Sherlock... In that vein."

The viewers have changed quite a bit over the years, but for a history of the toy, you can go here. Fisher-Price's official site for the View-Master is here.

COMMENTS (86)

Posted by:

Deanr

July 5, 2009

many moms and dads like going to the movies with their kids. we need capital steered in this direction, to kill time, before we guide our kids into a world that can be cynical.

veiw-master, before it was a toy, was used for education, entertainment, and military applications. with a little imagination, i can see this movie taking on some fun angles.

Posted by:

dave

July 5, 2009

nah nah you're all wrong. the next big hit is gonna be Don't Wake Daddy

Posted by:

wasteman

July 5, 2009

IN A WORLD where anything and everything will happen comes the most anticipated film of 2010 MADBALL

Posted by:

EMStoveken

July 9, 2009

Come now, citizens. Is it really THAT hard to imagine such a thing? Off the top of my head:

"A young boy, rummaging through his dead grandfather's attic discovers an old-fashined ViewMaster toy with a big stack of picture disks.

Putting the toy up to his face, he sees a classic travelogue scene of a tropical beach. He clicks the switch on the side, and the view changes to a close up of the beach, this time with his dead grandfather standing on it.

When he takes frantically looks away from the ViewMaster he finds that he has, in fact been transported to that beach where his grandfather is fleeing a marauding band of pirates!

Once they escape, his Grandfather shows him how they can use the device to visit other alternate worlds together, and adventure ensues . . . "

It will probably suck, but it would be easy to make.

Posted by:

iPebble

August 7, 2009

The made a book like that, Josh.

Posted by:

Robert Rouse

August 9, 2009

To who do I send my treatment for "PET ROCK: THE MOVIE"?