Joel Silver has signed on to develop a live-action feature film based on Ben 10.
The Cartoon Network show has consistently high ratings, managing over 4 million viewers for recent live-action TV movie Ben 10: Race Against Time.
Now Matrix producer Joel Silver is hoping to make the series a big screen film franchise.
Ben 10 is the story of Ben Tennyson, a boy who can transform into 10 different alien creatures with the aid of his Omnitrix, a device he wears on his wrist.
Joel Silver said, “I think we have to try something fresh and go at it in a way that stays true to the original material.”
He continued, “I have a 5-year-old and a 9-year-old, so it’s somewhere between them.”
The TV movie was live-action, but will be completely re-cast for the big screen.
The last time Silver aimed for a younger audience, we ended up with Speed Racer - a film that flopped so hard you can still hear the echo.
Still, here's hoping he gets this one right, for the sake of the children.
Source: Variety
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Tarantino3011
Jun 14th 2011, 17:30
Awesome
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FBSPryor
Apr 2nd 2012, 3:36
Speed Racer proved that you can't rely solely on children to turn out for expensive movies with allotted merchandise. I can only hope that it is approached similarly to the Transformers movies, and is made darker with a PG13 rating to get older people in. Generally, PG attracts 10 and under, PG13 attracts over 10. And with IMDB giving a 2013 release date, it looks to be a crowded year as it's also seeing the sequel to Star Trek, Iron Man 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, Despicable Me 2, The Hangover Part III, Man of Steel, After Earth, Fast and Furious Six, and Monsters University. The fact that John Carter failed as a gamble is also worrisome.
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