{"id":11375,"date":"2022-12-09T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T12:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/amazon-partners-with-basketball-legend-steph-curry-to-make-a-toejam-earl-movie\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T12:14:17","slug":"amazon-partners-with-basketball-legend-steph-curry-to-make-a-toejam-earl-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/amazon-partners-with-basketball-legend-steph-curry-to-make-a-toejam-earl-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon partners with basketball legend Steph Curry to make a ToeJam & Earl movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve got an intellectual property, Jeff Bezos wants to make a film out of it. Next up on Amazon’s docket of movies to make is ToeJam & Earl, Sega’s 1990s hip-hop-themed roguelike that was most recently resurrected in 2019’s ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spotted by The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, the film is being worked on by Amazon Studios in collaboration with NBA superstar Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media and Story Kitchen, a media company helmed by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad and Sonic the Hedgehog producer Dmitri Johnson. What a potent admixture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m hoping the resulting feature somehow unites these disparate threads into a slickly-choreographed rap-focused action flick with basketball elements and also Sonic the Hedgehog is there. Sadly it’ll probably just be, like, a normal movie.<\/p>\n

The screenplay is being written by Nunzio Randazzo and Amos Vernon, both of whom recently worked on Hotel Transylvania: Transformania. It’ll centre on ToeJam and Earl’s quest to find a cure for a disease that’s devastating their home planet’s funk levels. That mission brings them to Earth, the place where “the music that created their culture originated”.<\/p>\n

It’s far from Amazon’s only gaming-related movie project right now, but it might be the most left-field choice the company has made so far. Amazon is also working on films or TV shows based around Blade Runner<\/a>, Fallout<\/a>, Mass Effect<\/a>, Disco Elysium and Life Is Strange<\/a>. A film derived from a ’90s roguelike about rapping aliens collecting spaceship parts is a bit of an odd duck among that collection, but not an unwelcome one.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[#item_image]Amazon partners with basketball legend Steph Curry to make a ToeJam & Earl movie<\/p>\n

If you’ve got an intellectual property, Jeff Bezos wants to make a film out of it. Next up on Amazon’s docket of movies to make is ToeJam & Earl, Sega’s 1990s hip-hop-themed roguelike that was most recently resurrected in 2019’s ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spotted by The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, the film is being worked on by Amazon Studios in collaboration with NBA superstar Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media and Story Kitchen, a media company helmed by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad and Sonic the Hedgehog producer Dmitri Johnson. What a potent admixture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m hoping the resulting feature somehow unites these disparate threads into a slickly-choreographed rap-focused action flick with basketball elements and also Sonic the Hedgehog is there. Sadly it’ll probably just be, like, a normal movie.<\/p>\n

The screenplay is being written by Nunzio Randazzo and Amos Vernon, both of whom recently worked on Hotel Transylvania: Transformania. It’ll centre on ToeJam and Earl’s quest to find a cure for a disease that’s devastating their home planet’s funk levels. That mission brings them to Earth, the place where “the music that created their culture originated”.<\/p>\n

It’s far from Amazon’s only gaming-related movie project right now, but it might be the most left-field choice the company has made so far. Amazon is also working on films or TV shows based around Blade Runner<\/a>, Fallout<\/a>, Mass Effect<\/a>, Disco Elysium and Life Is Strange<\/a>. A film derived from a ’90s roguelike about rapping aliens collecting spaceship parts is a bit of an odd duck among that collection, but not an unwelcome one.<\/p>\n

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