Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Sandler & Insult Travel To Candy Land

Following the path taken by Stretch Armstrong this week the live-action feature based on the Hasbro board game "Candy Land is seeing new life says The Los Angeles Times.


Created in 1949--The board game took children through wonderful lands made up of candy, such as Peppermint Forest, Lollypop Woods and Gumdrop Mountains.

Sony Pictures has picked up the project from  Universal Pictures making plans to turn it into a live-action film headlined by Adam Sandler

"Enchanted" director, Kevin Lima was previously attached to the film when it was at Universal and remains in the big chair

Back in May of last year, it was reported that screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger ("Kung Fu Panda 2) wwere handed script duties now Robert Smigel--the man behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and the Sandler-stinker You Don't Mess with the Zohan, has come onboard to write a new draft of the script with Adam,

Ugh!!! Groan Groan Groan!!!

 Doug Belgrad, Hannah Minghella, and Brian Goldner will oversee this gag inducing idea....

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