Ratner: 'I would love to do a Guitar Hero movie'

by Christopher Grant { Aug 28th 2008 at 6:14PM }

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.

Tags: Activision, Breakingnews, Brett-Ratner, Guitar-Hero, movies

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Mr Khan @ Aug 28th 2008 6:18PM

Just do a movie version of that South Park episode

"You just keep chasing the dragon, but you never catch the dragon"

Tiptup300 @ Aug 28th 2008 7:11PM

I can see it now.

"Heroin Hero Movie"

Not that I would go to see it.

copa @ Aug 28th 2008 6:18PM

Who the fuck gave X3 to this clown?

GreyFox @ Aug 28th 2008 7:10PM

Warner Brothers wasn't it?

Anyway this just proves how Activision is going to run this franchise into the ground. They have no vision.

Hafk @ Aug 28th 2008 7:26PM

And that just proves that you can't read the article, GreyFox.

theturtle363 @ Aug 28th 2008 8:24PM

can you blame him with those squinty eyes?

Ranus Studios @ Aug 28th 2008 6:19PM

What an awful person.

theturtle363 @ Aug 28th 2008 6:20PM

It's times like this i wish joystiq was a satrical news site

Krarks @ Aug 28th 2008 6:24PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oauTdFno4w

Titanium_Orchid @ Aug 28th 2008 6:34PM

funny

Shmil @ Aug 28th 2008 6:25PM

BRETT RATNER?! The accomplished director of xXx, Torque, The Fast and the Furious, Stealth, and the most recent The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

fuck yes

Shmil @ Aug 28th 2008 6:26PM

my mistake, i was thinking of rob cohen
but still ratner doing gears
fuck yes

Drew @ Sep 3rd 2008 4:41PM

No, not Gears of War.... God of War.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Aug 28th 2008 6:25PM

No. No. NO. NOOO. DO NOT GIVE HOLLYWOOD ANY IDEAS!!

Ranelar @ Aug 28th 2008 6:30PM

You obviously haven't heard of "Tetris - The Movie" coming to theaters soon:

http://black20.com/black20-trailer-park/tetris-movie

Titanium_Orchid @ Aug 28th 2008 6:37PM

Is this for realz?

syrik zero @ Aug 28th 2008 6:43PM

No it was just a joke. That's weird that we both posted it at the same time haha

Haggard @ Aug 28th 2008 7:50PM

Bizarre that it has a very similar plot to Speed Racer. I saw this before SR came out and yet didn't notice at the time.

Kevlar @ Aug 30th 2008 3:44AM

What about THIS Tetris movie: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/1/24/ ?

syrik zero @ Aug 28th 2008 6:30PM

Remember that "Tetris Movie" trailer? I would watch that... It would at least bring a smile and a few laughs

Steven M @ Aug 28th 2008 6:33PM

all i can say is what the hell has this world come to

Tyrannius @ Aug 28th 2008 6:38PM

Reading this story triggered Metallica's song "Creeping Death" in my mind. Specifically the part that goes "Die by my hand...".

Markez @ Aug 28th 2008 6:39PM

Um... Sooo... Would it be like the Wizard, and about the videogame? Or would it be some laughable (well I guess they'd both be) movie where some kid climbs to the top as a guitar hero?

I would hope it would be about the Guitar Hero videogame. That way, they could take that pile of human garbage whose parents let him drop out of highschool to play Guitar Hero have a stupid cameo that would validate their horrible parenting.

Well maybe the parents would only be human garbarge... Or would they all be? Sigh...

Hafk @ Aug 28th 2008 7:22PM

That kid is being privately tutored, and his grades have actually improved since leaving high school.

You would know that if you read the fucking article. He didn't quit to play Guitar Hero, he quit because he genuinely didn't like how school was going for him. The article shouldn't have even mentioned Guitar Hero.

Markez @ Aug 28th 2008 7:35PM

Didn't like how school was going for him... Hmmmm... Shouldn't have even mentioned Guitar Hero... Hmmm... EXCEPT FOR THAT THEY CITED THE REASON OF HIM PLAYING GUITAR PROFESSIONAL FOR WHY THEY TOOK HIM OUT OF SCHOOL.

Thanks anyway, brainless. How was being homeschooled for you?

Hafk @ Aug 28th 2008 8:33PM

The kid, this is from the SH Forums.
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Well, it looks like I have a lot of explaining to do. I am "the kid dropped out of school to play Guitar Hero for a living."

Everyone here thinks I have dropped out of high school. I am getting home schooled and am possibly going back to school this coming year and the years to come. If I do actually choose to keep being home schooled then i will still try to get into a college.

I wanted to be home schooled because I wasn't getting anything out of going to a real school. I was never able to pay attention during class because of friends distracting me or I would be asleep. I was almost failing compared to me now having all A's and working harder than ever before to keep it that way. I know a lot of you would say I took the easy way out which is how I have been thinking which is why I may go back to school.

If I am going to keep getting home schooled I will be taking classes at Wake Tech that teach you how to make video games.

I have a back up plan people and no I didn't drop out to play Guitar Hero.
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Markez @ Sep 1st 2008 6:32PM

You just did a fantastic job of proving me right, thanks!

Was falling asleep during class, and now he's getting all As being homeschooled. Confirmed loser unable to handle real life, kthaxbai!

Von Dozier @ Aug 28th 2008 6:39PM

This, my friends, is the ugly truth of the current state of entertainment in a single article.

omosier @ Aug 28th 2008 6:39PM

Unless they make it into a Full House tie in movie with the main character being Uncle Jessie, and ends in a duel with the devil as Jessie tries to both shred and change Michelle's diaper.

Original actors of course for the sake of nude Olsen twins.

MikeO. @ Aug 28th 2008 6:39PM

Actor: Okay, so what's my motivation?

Director: Red, orange, orange, yellow, green, red.

Actor: Got it!

hollywood @ Aug 28th 2008 6:47PM

Squeeze that money tit till she's dry.

Hafk @ Aug 28th 2008 7:24PM

Too bad Activision isn't doing it. Because they aren't. Don't know where you read that.

mr mobius @ Aug 28th 2008 6:49PM

Unless they make it some sort of a spoof similar to Spinal Tap or a comedy in a surreal sort of way like a Will Ferrell movie.

KiraXD @ Aug 28th 2008 6:58PM

seriously? he got paid to come up with: Guitar Hero - World Tour?

Real Life money... to tack on "World Tour"

Gewurztraminer says: R.O.B. is the last Cylon! @ Aug 28th 2008 7:03PM

Guitar Hero the movie?

What would they do, remake the just released 'The Rocker'?

horngreen @ Aug 28th 2008 7:08PM

Whew this thing stinks, I see Will Farrell attached or maybe Ben Stiller. It would have to be a comedy for Gods sake but would still be a waste of time. And I thought Foreigners Juke Box Hero was silly but hell it's just a few minutes of silly. This looks to be 1 to 2 hours of silly. I say make it as I think something needs to take the place of Plan 9 From Outer Space as the worst movie ever made. This shit flick could EASILY take that crown.

Cesaria (www.cesariatic.wordpress.com) @ Aug 28th 2008 7:08PM

Shut the fuck up, Bret Ratner. I hate your movies. Good luck trying to make a movie about a fucking plastic instrument.

fred @ Aug 29th 2008 2:17AM

... porn?

kinetix @ Aug 28th 2008 7:18PM

"Joystiq spies report that Ratner is also considering adaptations of video game classics Pong and Tetris."

I lol'd

colinbell @ Aug 28th 2008 7:22PM

I would love to see the script for the guitar hero "movie"

invaderalex @ Aug 28th 2008 8:21PM

I want a Space Channel five movie
and it must be directed by a bollywood director!

Cadychan @ Sep 1st 2008 7:31PM

OH MAN
Ha ha!I would be first in line for that...oddly enough, it sounds like it would work. It would be WEIRD...very, very weird...but AWESOME. =)

RomeoDude @ Aug 28th 2008 8:43PM

Stop giving Uwe Boll ideas!

Waqman @ Aug 28th 2008 9:02PM

Yep, I knew it. If there was ever a director who would have thought this would be a good idea, it would have to be Ratner. One of the most mentally incompetent directors available at the moment (add to the list Michael Bay and Uwe Boll, I would love to see a collaboration).

Audacious @ Aug 28th 2008 11:37PM

what the hell is a GH movie. This is pretty dumb and there is nothing substantial to make a movie out of. although acoustic with the GH controller sounds nice click clack.

zombienutz @ Aug 29th 2008 12:08AM

Wow. That is one of the worst ideas I have heard lately. Ratner could just do his own fan films when the stupid GH action figures come out.

JRM @ Aug 29th 2008 12:30AM

I think a GH game would only be remotely successful if it copied the same formula as the Wizard: Autistic kid, picks up the guitar and wails on it, taken to a pro GH championship, wins the championship, saves the day.

Any other alternative would only be pretentious crap because GH isn't like playing REAL MUSIC--and that is the consensus within the general, non-gaming, audience.