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Guitar Hero to be made a movie... If Brett Ratner has his way! |
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Written by Dave Aubrey
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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And if the world has it's way, he won't!
'What's more upsetting: that rumored God of War director Brett Ratner thinks the Guitar Hero
brand is good movie material or that someone actually pays this guy to
consult on their brands? In an interview with the movie mangler, MTV managed to get Ratner to say (ostensibly with a straight face), "I would love to do a Guitar Hero
movie, if Activision would ever let me. I'm trying to convince them,
but why would you have a movie screw up such a huge franchise? Not that
I would make a bad movie." Oh no, what could be bad about a movie based
on a video game that tasks players with hitting colored dots in time
with rock music? Wait, don't answer that. Joystiq spies report that
Ratner is also considering adaptations of video game classics Pong and
Tetris.
So there's that. Then there's this: Brett Ratner was paid real money to "come up with a name" for the latest Guitar Hero. Ratner says, "I did, and it became Guitar Hero: World Tour."
In other words, the geniuses at Activision couldn't figure out a name
on their own, so who better than the guy who directed Rush Hour? In
other news, we're apparently in the wrong line of work.'
Source.
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