Robots, March 11
A Sound of Thunder, March 11
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, May 6
Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, May 19
Batman Begins, June 17
The Island, July 22
Sky High, July 27
War of the Worlds, June 29
Fantastic Four, July 1
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, July 15
Stealth, July 29
Doom, August 5
Serenity, September 30
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, November 18
The Brothers Grimm, November 23
Underworld: Evolution, December 9
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, December 9
King Kong, December 14
Zathura, December 21
Slated for this year but still without a formal release date is the VERY intriguingly titled Man-Thing.
As usual, there is a hefty helping of sequels and movie-conversions. Not all bad, though; we might pick up a handful of real winners out of this crowd.
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Let's crunch the numbers, shall we?
There are a total of 15 adaptations from other media including books, television, and video games.
There are four sequels.
There are three movies which are remakes of movies already in existence (I'm not counting FF since the Roger Corman version never made it to mass audiences).
Heck, Harry Potter is both an adaptation and a sequel!
War of the Worlds and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are both adaptations and remakes!
Batman Begins is an adaptation and a prequel!
Gah!
That leaves Robots, The Island, Sky High and Stealth as the only ones I could not think of source material for. That's four out of 20 movies listed here. Nice. One fifth is not re-hash of something else (and this number is likely wrong since I spent zero time researching the source material for these four). 80% is nothing new. Great. Let me go get my eight bucks each for these movies.
To my own shame I will say that I have seen the trailer for A Sound of Thunder and it appears to have some sort of Baboonasaurus Rex monster wreaking havoc, and this alone makes me want to see it.
By the way, is the CGI family film seeming a little stale to anyone else? With the exception of The Incredibles they are really starting to run together for me.
Great...Man Thing. The equivalent of DC's Swamp Thing, only he can't talk. Any character that comes from the same plane of existence as Howard the Duck deserves to die a slow, painful death. In case you don't believe me, here's some background bio info. I couldn't find it on Marvel's website, since I'm pretty sure they're trying to forget all about him as well.
Man-Thing
I like how he's a monster with feelings. Wait. Man-thing has feelings. No. Feeling Man-thing. No, that's still not it. Man-thing can feel you. Ah, forget it, it's too late in the evening to make this joke work.
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