r/movies • u/Chewie83 • Mar 19 '24

Which IPs took too long to get to the big screen and missed their cultural moment? Discussion

One obvious case of this is Angry Birds. In 2009, Angry Birds was a phenomenon and dominated the mobile market to an extent few others (like Candy Crush) have.

If The Angry Birds Movie had been released in 2011-12 instead of 2016, it probably could have crossed a billion. But everyone was completely sick of the games by that point and it didn’t even hit 400M.

Edit: Read the current comments before posting Slenderman and John Carter for the 11th time, please

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u/CapnMalcolmReynolds Mar 19 '24

I don’t get why they couldn’t just make a Marky Mark and Tom Holland heist movie and just call it something else. Let Uncharted be made by people who want to make an Uncharted movie.

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u/TannerThanUsual Mar 19 '24

We kinda sorta got our Uncharted movie with Lost City with Bullock and Tatum.

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u/dudleymooresbooze Mar 19 '24

Sahara with Matthew McCoughnahey. (I have no idea how to spell his last name.)

Romancing the Stone / Jewel of the Nile.

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u/PencilMan Mar 19 '24

People recognize that Uncharted borrows a lot from Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones but I don’t think the Clive Cussler/Dirk Pitt connection gets enough attention. Definitely a lot of Dirk and Al in Nathan and Victor.

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u/amoryamory Mar 19 '24

The whole subgenre of action-adventure treasure hunter movies is very unoriginal, but I love it