Fairy tale adaptations, lots of 'em. You can blame Alice In Wonderland for that.
Looking for some stories?I think it depends on whether the movies based on board games actually make money. If they do, the sky's the limit in terms of merchandising tie-ins, and American summer movies are going to be very, very irritating for the next few years. If they don't, the merchandisers will try to ride the coattails of Transformers instead.
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something AwfulMega combo. There's the best combination of vampire and alien concepts we're likely to get.
Swordsman Troper — Reclaiming The Blade — WatchFurries. Hollywood made pirates and vampires big so you know they'll put something just as outlandish in the mainstream.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Well the first question is, what's the pool of character types to choose from?
Supernatural horrors (vampires, werewolves, also zombies starting in the '70s) have repeatedly been huge. So have cowboys. Sword and Sandal heroes were huge once. The Wizard trend of the noughties has just wrapped up. Superheroes are huge.
No one seems willing to ride Pirates Of The Caribbean's coattails. Another Western heroic archetype that hasn't been a fad: knights.
“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. Bernardwe'll probably have more blatant Coming of Age stories in general
or 3d explosions
If Conan and John Carter are both hits, we'll probably see a swords & sandals resurgence.
Home of CBR Rumbles-in-Exile: rumbles.fr.yuku.comThe idea of board games being adapted into films makes me cringe. Who's idea was that? Why make a Monopoly movie, wasn't that the point of Wall Street? Will Snakes and Ladders be some kind of Saw rip-off? What about Chess? Actually, I think Seinfeld predicted that one. I think it was called Checkmate, and it wasn't "only a game"...
It's difficult to say what trends will appear in the future. More remakes?

The superhero trend's been going on strong since early 2000's, The Twilight Effect's been hit and miss, but still rampant. Source material unfriendly remakes of dead franchises seem to be the norm now. And now: Board Games.
What do you think is next?
I think we'll be seeing game shows get the Big Fucking Movie treatment next.
edited 3rd Aug '11 1:16:08 PM by Schitzo
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