Bazooka Joe: The Movie?
Man, the ideas floating around Hollywood these days just keep getting better and better. Not only do we have upcoming movies based on board games like Monopoly and Battleship, and movies based on toys like Stretch Armstrong and Robosapien, but now we’re about to get a movie based on a bubble gum mascot! At this point, the only way someone can top this is if Burger King actually goes through with their long-rumoured feature film advertisement.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Eisner is producing a movie based on Bazooka Joe, the eye patch-wearing kid who appears in the comic strips that have been packaged with Topps bubble gum since the 1950s. The movie will follow his comedic adventures along with his friends Pesty, Mort, Toughie, Hungry Herman, Jane and his dog Walkie Talkie. A guy named Mark Hammer has been hired to pen the script, which will hopefully clear up the eye patch mystery once and for all. The article notes that Hammer’s only work to date has been a spec script called Sonny Takes to Peru which never got picked up — but hey, apparently it was so good that it landed him the coveted Bazooka Joe movie! Congratulations Mark, this is your ticket to stardom.
Comments (6)
This is the worst thing I’ve ever heard. Ever.
Prediction: Movie is about bubble-gum bubble-blowing contests. In the first contest we see, Joe losing the contest as some cheating bastard pops his bubble via a blow-gun or BB-gun. The bubble-popping results in Joe losing his eye. The next year, after much training, the eye-patched Joe re-enters the contest and defeats his bubble-popping nemesis (played by Jack Black). It’s like a kung-fu movie, but instead of kung-fu, it’s bubble blowing, and instead of choreographed fight-scenes, it’s MIND-NUMBING STUPIDITY.
Posted by Bryronic on May 22nd, 2009Wow, they might as well make a film about the gecko from the Geico commercials.
Posted by Matt Keith on May 23rd, 2009This is not an idea .. this is a ‘worst idea’.. may be they need a little bit vacation..
Posted by Joddie on May 23rd, 2009Ummm…. Ok… do we get free bubble gum if we watch this movie? That is the only way dude… only way. And not to mention on the whole “Where’s Waldo?” movie, i mean COME ON!!! Lets all go see paint dry, i’ll pay $8 for that!! Wow… that was a little harsh… or not harsh enough.
Posted by MikeD on June 6th, 2009So, Bazooka Joe – The Movie will be five minutes long, right?
Posted by Pz on August 26th, 2009The only way I would enjoy a Bazooka Joe movie would be if it was set in the 50’s with rock n’ roll…and not in this time period of hip-hop bullshit! Long live Bazooka Joe!! “Tiny” Kongslie Portland, Oregon
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