9. Angry Birds
Huh? Nope, you haven't gone insane and you didn't read that wrong:
Angry Birds is seriously becoming a movie, though thankfully it's going to be a fully animated one (otherwise that would be terrifying, and doesn't Nicolas Cage have enough in the pipeline?). Yes, what feels like the most popular mobile video game in the world - one which tasks players with using a variety of exotic birds as missile supplements - is currently being forced into a cinematic shell (and in 3D, no less!). And this'll presumably emerge as something similar to that of
Rio or
Madagascar or
Over the Hedge. The eponymous "Angry Birds" will be talking in a variety of rich accents, is what I'm saying, though the movie itself won't hit theaters until 2016 - will the craze be over by then? Will people even be using phones in 2016, having replaced segments of their brains for the same technology? As long as they keep fusing the
Birds with existing franchises, I guess it go on indefinitely, though.
Could It Work? I'm probably the only person who thinks it
could work, but given that there's nothing much to work with except for the basic concept (there are birds, and they are angry), there's certainly potential. That's to say, there's an endless amount of possibilities to be explored here. If the movie is made with even half the love of any Pixar movie, then it won't be too bad. Why do I have a sneaking feeling, then, that
Angry Birds is going to be about a team of suicidal avian secret agents who get the job done by firing themselves into their enemies? Actually, that'd be pretty awesome. Still, don't get too excited: John Cohen of
Hop and
Alvin & Chipmunks fame is the person tasked with working all this stuff out. Awkward silence, right?