Back before the days of The Movie Blog, John ran a website that just did movie reviews. I was among the first of his “staff” in this fun site we did. Each week we would hit up the theater to pick up the new releases and write reviews.
Of course John got to write about all the cool films, and I would tend to get regulated into seeing Pokemon 2000 and Thomas and the Magic Railroad (notably because I was a father). Well it seems the feature version of Thomas the Tank Engine that I once reviewed is getting a second shot at the big screen!
We look forward to working with Josh Klausner to translate the classic ‘Thomas & Friends’ stories into a thrilling, big, modern adventure movie.”
HIT also owns the Barney and Bob the Builder franchises. The company has launched the film division to bring those family-oriented properties to the big screen.
Wait, am I reading that right? They also want to bring a big screen Barney and Bob the Builder to the big screen?
I understand there is a profitable demographic for movies made only for kids. I have a small portion of my own collection that was purchased purely so my kids can watch them. But do they honestly think there is a market for Barney? I could maybe see Bob the Builder (fortunately my kids are older now so I wont literally have to see it) but I just don’t know that there would be an appeal for a Barney movie. Maybe a direct to DVD?
But all that aside, I am still struggling to fit the marketing lingo “a thrilling, big, modern adventure movie” in the same sentence with Thomas the Tank Engine.
