The list of successful boardgames -turned-movies is a pretty short one, involving **Clue **and..er, that's about it. But all that could be about to change because, hot on the heels of Ridley Scott's planned Monopoly adaptation, comes news that Universal is also bringing Candy Land to our screens as part of its four-feature deal with Hasbro.
Dating back to the 1940s, Candy Land is nipper-friendly game in which players race along a primary-coloured path towards the finish line, moving backwards and forwards according to colour-coded cards and visiting places like Candy Cane Forest and Gum Drop Mountain along the way. So kind of like Snakes & Ladders, only on a massive amount of Sunny D.
How any of this will translate on screen, we're not sure, but it's a gloriously pyschedelic palette for director Kevin Lima (Enchanted) and screenwriter Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder) to work from, with characters like Queen Frostine, Gramma Nutt, Mr. Mint (who we'd like to think is some kind of assassin, but probably isn't), and the disturbingly-named Gloppy the Chocolate Monster to chose from.
More as we get it... Meanwhile, we've put together a shortlist of dream board game tie-ins we'd like to see, that so far includes John Carpenter's Mouse Trap, Guillermo del Toro's Hungry Hungry Hippos and Michael Bay's Kerplunk! Add yours below...