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Relativity Picks Up ‘Stretch Armstrong’; Taylor Lautner Off The Project

Sandy Schaefer — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:41:55 +0000

There was a time when Universal Pictures was ready to back just about every Hasbro toy or board game movie adaptation currently being developed. Eventually (in late Summer 2011) the studio decided that wasn’t the most brilliant of ideas, and purged itself of projects such as McG’s Ouija, Ridley Scott’s Monopoly, Gore Verbinski’s Clue reboot – and the would-be Taylor Lautner starring vehicle, Stretch Armstrong.

Monopoly and Ouija are both getting rewrites, but have yet to be acquired by an alternative distributor. Stretch Armstrong, on the other hand, has already been picked up by Relativity Media, which appears ready to start from scratch on the flick.

Relativity is now set to distribute Stretch Armstrong theatrically in both the U.S. and overseas (through its foreign partners) on April 11th, 2014. Producers attached to the project ...

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Taylor Lautner Ditches ‘Max Steel’ For Stretch Armstrong

Ross Miller — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:04:38 +0000

After his role in the first two Twilight movies, teen heartthrob Taylor Lautner has been in demand with studios and filmmakers in every direction. With the ever increasing number of projects the now 18 year old actor (female Twilighters rejoice!) is attached to, it was almost inevitable that he couldn’t appear in every single one of them. And today we get news of that very thing happening with one of his fairly major potential projects.

Lautner has been attached to two toy-based projects for a while now, the first being Max Steel, which is based on the doll by toy-maker Mattel, and the second being the recently announced Stretch Armstrong, based on the toy by Mattel’s rival Hasbro. Max Steel was set to be up first for Lautner but now we learn he has dropped out ...

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Taylor Lautner To Play Stretch Armstrong (In 3D)

Ross Miller — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:03:59 +0000

It was back in the summer of last year that we told you that Universal was planning a Stretch Armstrong movie, just one of many toy-based adaptations that are in the works. President and CEO of Hasbro, Brian Goldner, recently talked about the movie’s “plot” without giving away too much (read: anything at all) – “Stretching as a superpower brings a lot of humor to the idea so imagine a big humorous super-powered, super-human kind of movie.”

One of the big questions when it comes to a movie like this is who is going to play the main character? With Stretch Armstrong, you’d think it would be some huge, intimidating guy with golden hair and chiseled features (i.e. just like the toy). Well, you’d be wrong, as news has just recently hit that New Moon star ...

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Candy Land, Monopoly, Battleship and Stretch Armstrong Updates

Paul Young — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:34:37 +0000

Well the 2009 summer movie season is over for Hasbro and it has been financially successful. Transformers 2 has milked the entire world economy of over $800 million dollars, while G.I. Joe managed to drain the globe of $100 million this past weekend. So what does that mean for Hasbro their future releases?

Well Steve “Frosty” Weintraub over at Collider managed to catch Brian Goldner, President and C.E.O of Hasbro, before a special screening of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and got some interesting answers about a few upcoming projects: Stretch Armstrong, Candy Land, Battleship and Monopoly.

STRETCH ARMSTRONG

First up is Stretch Armstrong, the toy no one played with (seriously do you know anyone that owned one when you were a kid?). According to Goldner, Stretch will be the first movie released out ...

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Ron Howard To Direct Stretch Armstrong Movie?

Ross Miller — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:23:12 +0000

Earlier this month we reported on the “WTF?!” news that Hollywood was going to be bringing us a Stretch Armstrong movie. Yes, that’s right, that toy/doll from your childhood whose muscly arms you could stretch. The film is part of a six-year deal between Universal Pictures and toy company Hasbro, and will be produced by Brian Grazer through his co-owned Imagine Entertainment company.

IESB is reporting that the Steve Oedekerk (Bruce Almighty, Kung Pow) penned Stretch Armstrong movie may have a director in the form of Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, Apollo 13). The news comes from an article in Business Wire that notes that the movie industry is looking to toy lines to make movies instead of the other way around as has been the case (for the most part) up ...

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Universal Making Stretch Armstrong Movie

Rob Frappier — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:48:55 +0000

In an effort to catch up with all of the other toy-inspired movie franchises hitting theaters, Universal Pictures recently teamed up with Hasbro for a six-year partnership. What’s their first movie together? That’s right, it’s Stretch Armstrong.

What’s that you say, “Stretch Armstrong hasn’t been a popular toy for over a decade?” Sorry, doesn’t matter. Hollywood has run out of original ideas and they’re raiding our childhood to compensate.

Stretch Armstrong will be written by Steve Oedekirk of Ace Ventura and Bruce Almighty fame. The film will be produced by Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment. Here’s what Grazer had to say about the project.

“Stretch Armstrong is a character I have wanted to see on screen for a long time…He’s an unconventional kind of super hero with a power that no one would want. It’s a story about a guy stretching – if ...

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