Candy Land is a board game I have zero connection to, I never played it once in my childhood and only discovered its existence through American friends in recent years. This makes the decision to make adapt this non-entity of a board game into a movie all the more baffling than, say, adapting Battleships into a science-fiction movie.
At least that has the possibility of hearing Liam Neeson growl, "They sunk my battleship!"
Candy Land, again, a thing that I have no understanding or interest in, has the dubious honour of snagging Adam Sandler for the lead role.
This decision was announced by Hasbro, along with plans to move the project from Universal (who wisely sat on it for four merciful years) to Sony (who released The Smurfs last year and so have little compunction about bombarded their audiences with idiotic crap.
Adam Sandler headlining a movie based on something with no discernible plot of character: Business as usual, by the looks of things.
Source: THR
When he isn't writing for the prestigious site you currently find yourself reading, Andrew is busy either writing for EatSleepLiveFilm or posting pictures of dogs in hats on Facebook. He fell in love with movies after a double-bill of The Empire Strikes Back & Return of The Jedi at the tender age of four. His favourite film is Goodfellas, his favourite director is Martin Scorsese, his favourite actor is Paul Newman. Caught you off guard there, eh? You were expecting Robert De Niro or something.
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