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The classic child ’s stereoscope toyView - Masteris rig to be sport in its own movie , as part of a quislingism between Mattel Films and MGM . The View - Master , which has been around since the 1940s , was to begin with comprised of reels of stereoscopic image that could be loaded into a viewer , and more latterly has expanded to become a virtual reality system .
This is n’t the first meter that someone has judge tomake a View - Master motion-picture show . A standardized projection was denote back in 2009 at DreamWorks , withFringewriter Brad Caleb Kane mark to write the handwriting and Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman attached as producers . However , only one draft copy of the book was ever written and the project ultimately failed to get along together .
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Not to be deterred , however , Mattel and MGM are teaming up for another crack at a View - Master pic . Deadlinereports that Mattel Films and MGM are currently develop a celluloid base on the View - Master miniature assembly line , though no writers or director are attached yet . The miniature ship’s company and film studio are also collaborating on a motion picture based on the American Girl dolls , which was foretell to begin with this month .
The patch of the View - Master movie remains unidentified ( it may not even have one yet ) , but Orci and Kurtzman ’s film was going to be about the View - Master delight people to whatever world they see when looking into it , which seems like an obvious road to go down . Jonathan Glickman , the Chief Executive of MGM ’s Motion Picture Group , said that the goal is " to make a family risky venture integrating the sometime school twist and click stereotypic equipment with the modern world of virtual realness . "
Other films base on Mattel toys in development include a springy - actionHot Wheelsmovie and a resilient - actionBarbiemovie at Warner Bros. , and a movie reboot ofMasters of the Universeat Sony Pictures .
While there will likely be some cynicism over the idea of turning the View - Master into a moving picture , interview may well be a lot more open to the theme than they were the last time such a undertaking was annunciate . The surprising success ofThe LEGO Movieshowed that it ’s possible to make a motion picture about just about anything ( evenThe Emoji Moviewas a box office success ) , so with the right script a motion picture based on the View - Master could in reality work .
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