“Fanboys” Writer Pens Retro Video Game Epic With “Thundercade”

Surely you’ve heard of the upcoming movie, Fanboys, about a group of friends who travel to Skywalker Ranch in hopes of seeing The Phantom Menace before anyone else. At the very least, you might’ve heard of of the controversy it sparked recently when it was revealed that the Weinstein brothers had bought up the film and quickly excised a whole plot point involving one of the “fanboys” having cancer, reducing it from a film about some friends trying to fulfill their buddy’s dying wish to a movie just poking fun at Star Wars nerds (sorry, Weinsteins, but someone already made that movie; it was called “Anywhere But Conventions and Movie Theaters”). Anyways, one of the screenwriters for Fanboys, Ernie Cline, just had a new movie picked up that seems to be tailored to gamers this time. The movie, titled Thundercade, tells the story of a middle-aged gamer who learns that a record he set as a teen has just been broken by some young kid. So he sets out on a journey with two friends to reclaim his place in gaming history by winning the gaming championship, Thundercade. Cline says the film was inspired by playing games with his nephew, who would often talk smack to him while they played Xbox games:

“I fell in love with the idea of pitting older ‘classic arcade era’ gamers from the ’80s against teenagers — the Atari 2600 generation vs. the Xbox 360 generation,” Cline said.

Hmm, sounds a bit like The Wizard for…well, the people who actually watched The Wizard in theaters when it first came out. Let’s just hope the Weinsteins don’t get ahold of it and turn it into “Video Game Movie” or somesuch.

Via The Hollywood Reporter