Someone's actually making a Joust movie
You know us. We normally stick to our own business, avoid trying to tell others how to run their lives. Unfortunately, much like the crabby old woman in the apartment directly below yours, we can't keep our mouths shut about this. Two Hollywood producers, Christine Peters and Michael Cerenzie, have made a new company aimed at the movie goer under 25 years old called CP Productions. The first project? "A new imagining of Midway Games' classic Joust."
There are a hundred reasons why this is a terrible idea, but we're going to pick our favorite (besides the fact that it's a game about fighting giant buzzards). Joust was released in 1982 and the movie's due in 2008. That means that the target demo for the film was between 0 and negative 12 years old when Joust came out. Congrats, CP Productions, it sounds like you're off to a great start.
There are a hundred reasons why this is a terrible idea, but we're going to pick our favorite (besides the fact that it's a game about fighting giant buzzards). Joust was released in 1982 and the movie's due in 2008. That means that the target demo for the film was between 0 and negative 12 years old when Joust came out. Congrats, CP Productions, it sounds like you're off to a great start.





















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"I have a feeling it'll be like Eragon, since both the movie and the Joust game were 2-bit."
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Whats next,tapper the movie?.
Well thinking about it there is already a movie based on spy hunter and another based in paperboy(It was called Dennis the Menace).But seriously why Joust?,Even Robotron,Defender or Satan's hollow could make a better movie.
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But unfortunately, everyone would say: "They're copying the storyline of the Terminator movies", which is technically not true, since the 'robot's turning on humans' story was first done on Robotron. Terminator came 2 years later.
Actually, I stand corrected.... There were plenty of other Robot vs. human stories before Robotron, but Robotron was so widely known, I just used it as a comparison.
But it was by no means the first... Just the first to be widely recognized.
Yeah, it's probably gonna suck ... but, it's not that hard to build a narrative around something as sparse as Joust.
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http://www.midway.com/classicGames/joust/joust.html
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But for real, that pic up top is the funniest that's been on here in a while.
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I guarantee it like George Zimmer.
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One man will find the courage to kick evil in the EGG...
Armed with a magical lance and a wise-cracking dodo, Johnny Lancer is about to find out that sometimes it takes more than good aim to beat the bad guys...
Sometimes it takes abusing the laws of physics.
JOUST: ANARCHY'S REIGN
Rated PG-13 for Avian Nudity
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Furry fans this movie is for you.
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Opps....too late!
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Possibly the funniest post I've ever read on Joystiq.
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Actually, if it's bad then it will be even MORE awesome.
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I know, I know, Midway absorbed Williams but video games from Williams were always exciting and original: joust, robotron, defender, etc. Call it Williams DNA.
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that movie ruled :)
Since it has no characters and a very limited setting, they are pretty free to improvise around the basic idea... so i could see it ending up as some kind of Dragonriders type of movie. Dragonheart meets A Knights Tale??
Still, to do it justice you'd need a pretty massive budget and loads of CGI.. or it'd end up closer to Dungeons and Dragons...
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