Magic 8-Ball: The Movie: Signs point to yes, dear God, yes
Moving us ever closer to Ball And Cup: The String’s Revolt, Paramount’s burgeoning development deal with Mattel Toys has been extended to include “a live action-adventure film” based on Magic 8-Ball, the decades-old fortune-telling toy that helps introduce children to flippant decision-making/the occult through the “magic” of blue dye. Screenwriters Jon Gunn and John Mann have now been tasked with translating the thrill-a-minute suspense of asking a yes-or-no question of an omnipotent die covered in mostly affirmative, occasionally vague and non-committal, and rarely outright negative answers (and all without coming off like, say, some sort of YouTube parody of The Da Vinci Code).