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Universal Pictures has hired Nick Stoller to rewrite Stretch Armstrong and Rob Letterman to direct it. They teamed on Gulliver’s Travels and Letterman directed Monsters Vs. Aliens. Taylor Lautner stars, but no start date yet. Imagine’s Brian Grazer is producing with Hasbro’s Bennett Schneir, with Kim Roth exec producing. Steve Oedekerk wrote the original draft. Stoller’s recent efforts at Universal includes directing Forgetting Sarah Marshall and script work on Get Him to the Greek.
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This ongoing April Fool’s joke is hilarious. A Stretch Armstrong movie! Now THAT’S funny.
WTF? Is this part of that Hasbro production deal? I swear, we are all on a slide to movie hell when some suits are excited about a 30 year old piece of plastic as the basis for a script. Nikki, you made my day with this one! I need a drink!
That pic on the box of the children drawing-and-quartering Mr. Armstrong is hilarious. Stoller is really talented — this could turn out rad.
You’re talking about Nick Stoller, right? He serves up a lot of scripts, all of them shit. That’s about it.
Stretch Armstrong ??? The apocalypse is right around the corner folks!!!
what a waste of nick stoller’s talent!
Nick Stoller has talent?
Homo-erotic plastic toy, briefly a national craze, then completely forgotten.
There couldn’t possibly be a better vehicle for Lautner.
HAHAHA bloody brilliant!
good stuff!
This is real. This is good. This is what movies are supposed to be.
I can’t imagine this concept being turned into a movie. Please, let’s just get some original thinking for a change and lose these third-tier Hasbro-driven movies.
I get it, tons of money being spent, franchise in the making, etc., gotta keep rolling, but when is somebody going to stand up and say, “NO KID HAS EVER HEARD OF STRETCH ARMSTRONG!?!?” It’s like that toy Tom Hanks wants to make a movie of that no one knows what it is. You figure that people just want to do a Plastic Man movie and can’t get the rights or something, so Hollywood’s been obsessed for over a decade with this “Stretch Armstrong” movie (remember when it was Danny DeVito? How about Jim Carrey?). It’s crazy that old fogeys who think a toy from their childhood is still cool will devote their lives to foisting that on teens who know otherwise. “Transformers” still had toys on the shelf, new incarnations like “Beast Wars” on the television, etc. When was the last time you cruised a Wal-Mart (yeah, like studio execs ever go to that one L.A. Wal-Mart down in the Baldwin Hills Mall) and saw a Stretch Armstrong dol…I mean, action figure on the shelves? Just look at that posted picture. It’s like something out of the final sequence of “Stay Hungry!”
For similar ego-trip silliness, see: Bazooka Joe
Look at that “Stretch Armstrong” toy!This Lautner guy’s just not good-looking enough to play him.(Or talented enough).
So Nikki, still think this is the movie that’ll make Mr. Lautner an big time action star? Looks like they’re going to throw everything they can at this lame idea to make it work. Do they actually think guys are going to want to see the werewolf from the Twilight saga in a ‘Stretch Armstrong’ movie? This movie stinks already!
Throw everything they have at it?!! Did you see “Monsters & Aliens” or Letterman’s previous film “Sharktale”? This guy is a D-list talent on a temporary C-List pass. Unless “Gullivers Travels” does “Hangover” like numbers, this thing doesn’t even get made.
I was pitched this by my agents almost ten years ago. I passed. How exactly is this more viable now? To who? Octogenarian NAMBLA members looking forward to seeing how ‘flexible’ Lautner is?
I really do get why Transformers made so much Ke$h. This? Page me when they get the rights to Gnip Gnop or Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Is this for real?! Is someone really going to make a movie about this toy? I don’t think kids have ever heard of this toy.