Ok, this is just the most ridiculous “so absurd, it’s totally awesome” news I’ve heard all week. It appears a movie has gone into development based on the ancient video game Joust! Yes that’s right… the game where you ride flying ostriches in knightly jousting combat. CATCH THAT EGG! This is just the stupidest news… and yet I’ve been grinning ear to ear like an idiot ever since I heard it.
Our friends over at FilmJunk give us this:
According to GameDaily, producers Christine Peters (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) and Michael Cerenzie (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Black Water Transit) recently formed a new company called CP Productions, with the specific intentions of making movies and comic books based on popular video games. For their first project, they have chosen the 25 year old arcade game Joust, which they are describing as “Gladiator meets Mad Max”.
Gladiator meets Mad Max?!?! I can just see it now… in a post apocalyptic world where there is no gas… cars are usless… there are only Ostriches for transportation and for bloody combat!
Man, I haven’t even THOUGHT about Joust in YEARS. I used to LOVE that game when I was a little kid. Flapping those stupid wings, killing the other knights. No one ever explained why you were flying an Ostrich over lava pits in the first place… but that was neither here nor there. A movie version of this is just the most silly idea… but I for one hope this actually comes to pass. In a world gone mad with Video Game movies… why not just go balls to the wall ridiculous?
