It was hard not to love Seth Gordon’s documentary The King of Kong. Not only did it make watching a guy playing a decades old arcade game interesting but it constructed an excellent, if fairly biased, narrative between two very different personalities.
We are a month away from seeing Gordon’s Horrible Bosses and Deadline are breaking the news that Gordon will next take on the reigns of a new version of the 1983 movie War Games, which had Matthew Broderick playing Noughts & Crosses (or Tic-Tac-Toe if you absolutely insist) with a scary computer to prevent a nuclear planet punching.
Unless Gordon is planning on returning to his roots and having the world at risk due to a particularly tough game of Donkey Kong (and if he does then Billy Mitchell must surely have a cameo as Ming the Merciless) then it’s a fair bet that all manner of technological upgrades to bring it all up to date.
War Games is not a film which has a vocal fanbase who will decry this news, in fact there’s a good chance that everything bar the basic premise and the name will be kept, with perhaps a role for Broderick somewhere.
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