Outlook Not So Good: Paramount & Mattel Team Up For Magic 8 Ball Movie

Well, anything can be made into a movie these days, even an inanimate object. Paramount and Mattel are teaming up to make the cinematic landscape even dumber with a movie based on the Magic 8 Ball.

For those of you who may not be familiar with the very brief toy phenomenon, the Magic Eight Ball was, well, an eight-ball with a small window where a twenty sided dice floated in some (probably toxic) liquid and told you your fortune. Basically, you would think of a question, shake the Magic Eight Ball, and it would reveal an answer with responses ranging from “As I see it yes” to “Very doubtful.”

Jon Gunn and Jon Mann will write the script. God, we can’t waste any more time talking about something that will certainly top our Dumbest Movie Projects list at the end of the year. Will we ever see this? Here’s an answer that eight ball doesn’t have: Fuck No.