That Candy Land movie is now "that Candy Land movie with Adam Sandler"
Following yesterday’s news that Universal has thrown out nearly all of its Hasbro toys unopened, the properties have been rescued from the local Goodwill and begun finding homes at new studios, who will care for them properly—or, in the case of Candy Land, use it as a playground for their Adam Sandler doll with kung-fu farting action. Deadline reports that Columbia has picked up the film set in the mythical, color-recognition-skill-shaping land of Gum Drop Mountains and fudge-based feudalism, abandoning earlier plans for it to be “Lord Of The Rings, but with candy” and rebuilding it as an Adam Sandler movie more along the lines of "Bedtime Stories, but with more product placement." In Candy Land terms, this is sort of like stopping the game by overturning the board in frustration, and instead trying to shove as many of those little gingerbread men as you can up your butt.