From worstpreviews, Tom Hanks is planning to re-team with his "Forrest Gump," "The Polar Express" and "Cast Away" director Robert Zemeckis for a new film, called "Major Matt Mason," based on the popular Mattel action figure.
The live-action family movie is a space adventure that has a budget of over $100 million. The plan is to shoot it in 3D. The script was written by Hanks and Graham Yost ("Justified").
The toy line originated in 1966; Mason led an astronaut team that worked on the moon and lived in a space station. The toy was a hit in the buildup to the first manned moon mission. Mattel retired the line in the 1970s.
3 comments:
Seriously? So this was never more then a toy and they're building a movie around it? Huh.
Major Matt Mason? I've never in all my life heard of him and I know a thing or two about action figures.
What he said.
The flick might be successful on its own merits, but the nostalgia angle gets them nowhere. Nostalgia only goes back so far. The G.I.Joe movie wasn't about the older version of the toy, it was about the 80's version. The kids that played with Major Matt Mason are going to be men pushing 50, which I don't think is a huge target demographic.
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