'Hot Wheels' Movie Revs Up

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Friday, January 2, 2009 at 8:36AM

If Ridley Scott can make a movie out of Monopoly and if a comedic ensemble version of the board game Clue can still hold up reasonably well a quarter century later and if Transformers can be Transformers, why can't we have a movie about Hot Wheels?

That's exactly what Warner Bros. has asked itself, and Variety reports that the the studio is working with Mattel on a film version of the die-cast cars, with Joel Silver on board to produce the action flick. The script - and how you even get to the point of a concept from something as nebulous as "these cars are cool" is quite an achievement - will be written by Matt Nix (Burn Notice).

About all we know comes from Mattel's Barry Waldo: "We won't have the cars talk. That would be off brand position for us. It won't be another Knight Rider, I promise that." Waldo stresses that one of the film's goals is to be "relevant for kids."

And before you ask what's next, it's very likely a big screen, live-action Barbie movie. Here's your big break, Heidi Montag.

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I love hot wheels please make a movie,but dont make it so the cars can talk,but i also want to know what happened to Vert in Acceleracrs:The Ultimate Race at the end take off where that left off.Please.

Saturday, May 2, 2009 |

Dylan Parsons

Yes it would be nice to have a continuation of the Hot wheels movies.... it would be nice to know if Kadeem could ever be changed back... he was such a nice character it was sad to see him changed

Thursday, August 27, 2009 |

KMR

Is the new hot wheels movie going to be about battle force 5?

Friday, November 13, 2009 |

arcade

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