Paramount Pictures ’ kid brother , Nickelodeon , has designs on turning some of those badass graffiti - influenced Kid Robot play into , we can only hope , badass graffito - influenced movie theatre . consort to Variety , Kid Robot ’s parent company , W!ldbrain Incorporated — which already get the hipster Yo Gabba Gabba ! nestling show for Nick Jr.—will work with the studio apartment on these picture project that will be a “ admixture of vivification and live action . ” ( Hasbro , incidentally , announced similar intentions latelast yearto draw out more lucre out of their arsenal of playthings . ) Just who will script this physical exertion in potential awesomeness ? And which legal action figures will get the big - screen handling ? Kid Robot and Paramount wo n’t say yet . So we ’re offering some suggestion .
Toy : Smorkin ’ Labbit Pitch : fin meets The Insider meet Crank . In an effort to kick his coffin nail use , the Labbit inspect a hypnotherapist . A particularly probing session taps deep into his subconscious : turn out he ’s an foreign leproid imbed on Earth to be a outback bravo — his “ fusee ” a nic fit!—waiting to destroy all man . Only he ’s inadvertently become connected to his human target area … and resolution to salve their puny race .
Toy : Munny Pitch : Seven Samurai meet Shane . He is a warrior who traverses the bleak frontier by his lonesome . Along the way , Munny valiently rescues some villagers from local bandits and captures the ( innocent and totally platonic , and yet latently homoerotic ) heart of a feller , who faithfully studies his perfection ’s skill solidification . The kid get a line how to be a man ; our paladin pick up how to be a sensei .
Toy : Dunny Pitch : go Hard meets itself . Dunny is a nice - guy cable window washer at a business district Manhattan skyscraper . While reliably doing his chore , he look through a windowpane and note the employees deep down gagged , attach up , and held at gunpoint . intelligibly , they are communists ! Not one to waste time , he opens a can of Yippie - Kai - Yay on their fucking . prototype courtesy of KidRobot.com [ viaDaily Variety ]
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