Thursday, October 4, 2012

Hungry Hungry Hippos

It appears the Mayans had the right idea, but were off on the year. Apparently, Hasbro is going to make a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie. No, seriously. So, if anyone reading this has any connections to Hasbro, please give them my personal phone number, I have some big ideas for the script. I've never actually written a screenplay, or really anything professionally, so I think I'm more than qualified to write a script for a movie based on a game that involves frantically pushing a button, and random chance. Actually, I have several ideas for other movies based on toys. I'll be contacting Hasbro as soon as I'm done with this, and I'll let you know how it goes. I'm at least hoping they'll hear me out. The following is a list of ideas for stories based on child hood toys:

Hungry Hungry Hippos:

A popular game has developed in Africa where people can throw balls into water, and bet on which hippo will eat the ball. The game becomes a worldwide sensation, until one day, the hippos turn violent a la Deep Blue Sea. Things have gone exactly as the hippos planned, and they unleash a hippo army on the millions of spectators. A small group of survivors are followed, as they set up a new society post hippo apocalypse. 

The Rubiks Cube:

A mysterious multi-colored cube appears from the sky, and in a Sword in the Stone like competition, people from all over the world come to try to figure out the cube. One young boy is successful, and he either gains ultimate power, or it triggers an explosion that has to be stopped. I'm not sure which yet. Maybe both.

Bop-it:

Several multi-colored sticks crash land on earth, and they become hugely popular as a Simon says like game. Everyone, except for a select few, takes to playing with the sticks, not knowing that they are slowly being brain washed by the sticks. Now it's up to a select few to find out what happened, and save the planet. 

20 Questions (the electronic game):

A telepathic device is discovered in an ancient Egyptian tomb (I'm tired of things crash landing from space) and falls into the wrong hands. It will take a genius, probably, to beat the man who possesses the device, recover it, and send it back to where it came from, probably space either way. 

Dice (the six sided cubes):

Strange six sided cubes crash land on Earth, and their rolls determine the future. The human race must band together to defeat the six sided cubes, and rescue humanity from their tyrannical reign. 

Playing Cards:

In medieval times, four royal families are warring, and the peasants are suffering. One boy goes to a mysterious voodoo priest, or wizard or something, for help. The priest wizard gives him a series of pieces of paper that can control the royal families. Now, a young boy is in control of the fate of several countries, and only he can stop the war. Or can he? 

Jacks: 

A secret society, or aliens or Egyptians, have developed a series of explosives that stick to anything and explode with 100% lethal accuracy. A team of scientists discover that the only way to remove the bombs is a bouncing object that makes the bomb removable for a period of time. Now it's a war of bombs versus bomb removers for some reason.