Grumpy Cat Going to Hollywood

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I really wonder why its taken this fucking long for Hollywood to grab up any of the meme's for profit. Usually they're on the ball when it comes to exploiting and watering down things that were once funny.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

You cannot make a large-budget movie about memes. I promise you, you do not get the appeal if that is what you think should happen.

 

[Jandau]

Some people just don't get memes and how they work. And some of those people work in Hollywood. The rest is a slow-motion train wreck...

 

[Strazdas]

basically this. Hollywood is doing granth theft meme to gain copyright and trademark on it and thus everyone that uses it will ahve to pay them (not the meme owners mind you, but the filmmakers) for their usage. after this the image in the article would probably be illegal without royalties too.
All hail copyright laws?

I really wonder why its taken this fucking long for Hollywood to grab up any of the meme's for profit. Usually they're on the ball when it comes to exploiting and watering down things that were once funny.

Oh, they tried getting memes into movies, in fact multiple movies now refer and even show memes now, pretending to be hip about it. Still usually in these movies the "obviously bad internet addict guy" end up the best character of the bunch.

 

[TheNaut131]

Holy shit, they are honestly running out of ideas. Also, I think Moviebob kinda called this one:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/10169-Scraping-the-Bottom

 

[Hammartroll]

they should just make another Garfield and have Grumpy Cat guest star, it'd be a safer investment

also this kind of reminds me how they turned Fred into a movie/TV show/toy, but he wasn't a meme per se

also also, memes come and go real fast so might as well have them go out in a blaze of glory and a pile of cash by making a movie out of them on the tail end of their popularity
(get it? tail end? cause Grumpy has a tail!)

 

[Product Placement]

If this is gonna turn out to be a story of redemption, then I'm done with this world.

Captcha: "Hello world"
Stop being sarcastic captcha.

 

[Micalas]

A deep sound echos over the world...

*BOOM!*

A farmer in the Chinese lowlands puts down his shovel as the sound rolls across him...

*BOOM!*

Today was the day the Collective Internet, in unison, slammed their heads against their desks.

Well played, I could see the sweat dripping off his brow in my mind's eye. I saw him wipe it away as he looked towards the setting sun in the western sky, confused by the strange noise that disrupted his peaceful life. He looked to his family, who were also working the fields, as if to lovingly reassure them despite his own fear of the unknown. It was a beautiful moment.

 

[WhiteRat07]

Well.. it can't be worse than Norbit

 

[Gameguy20100]

Just no.


Worst Idea in the history of.... Ever.

 

[Lieju]

Why not?

It doesn't seem any dumber than the ideas for most family movies.
A cat that's grumpy? Sure, you can make a movie out of that. It won't be any good, but movies like that get made all the time, and I just ignore them.

 

[theultimateend]

HOW?! I'm struggling to think how you could make a film about this. There is precisely jackshit to work with.

Think of it like the movie TED but with a cat.

Really you just take any film with an adorably furious protagonist and make them a cat instead of a person.

so they basically want to do a clone of garfield.

I feel Garfield and Tard are considerably different kinds of anthropomorphised cat.

But perhaps that's just me.

You did say "basically" I guess.

Worst Idea in the history of.... Ever.

Bunch of Nazis throw their arms up in celebration.

 

[FalloutJack]

Guys, it's a CAT. Even she doesn't care, so why do you?

Incidentally, this is the same planet Earth that, god only knows why, put so much into freakin' Angry Birds. If you like that, you'll watch a movie based upon a cat from a meme.