Adam Sandler is now the Lord of Candy Land

[adrotate banner=”1″]Remember back in the day when we were promised the Candy Land movie would be like Lord of the Rings, except everyone would probably get diabetes by the third film and be missing legs? Well, that dream is as dead as your dreams of becoming an astronaut, because now Adam Sandler will star in the Candy Land movie and co-write it with Robert Smigel. This is fallout of the collapse of the Universal/Hasbro deal, which also claimed the lives of the Clue movie among others. Stretch Armstrong jumped ship to Relativity Media, and now Sony snagged Candy Land. Will the Viewmaster movie find a place? What about the movie for Uno? Because we need an Uno movie. We need it to be like Lord of the Rings for card games…

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Candy Land will be the Lord of The Rings of board game movies

[adrotate banner=”1″]Take that, Battleship movie! Candy Land is putting the smack down and declaring they’ll be just as powerful as the beloved trilogy of Hobbits vs Orcs. I hope these board game movie wars continue to escalate and we just get ridiculous films based on board games. It will be a great time to be a bad movie buff! But who will drop the Donut Ring into the liquid chocolate of Mt. Marshmallow?

Co-writer Jonathan Aibel (Kung Fu Panda 2) said “We envision it as Lord of The Rings, but set in a world of candy.”

More from EW and co-writer Glenn Berger:
“We don’t see it as a movie based on a board game, although it has characters from that world and takes the idea of people finding themselves in a world that happens to be made entirely of candy where there are huge battles going on,” Berger says. “We are going for real comedy, real action, and real emotions at stake.”

Wasn’t the Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure movie Lord of the Rings enough for them?

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I hope that is chocolate...

Candyland movie still happening

[adrotate banner=”1″]Candyland, one of a slate of possible board game movies (including the upcoming Battleship, the rumored Monopoly, and a few others), has gotten some new writers as it inches closer to possibility – Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, who wrote Kung Fu Panda – which was good, and Monsters vs. Aliens – which was terrible.


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