Is a movie based on a soothsaying billiard ball unnecessary? As I see it, yes. Will that prevent Paramount from making an action-adventure film based on Mattell’s Magic 8 Ball? Outlook not so good.

Paramount Pictures has decided audiences are finally ready to embrace the Zen simplicity that is Magic 8 Ball: The Motion Picture. …Paramount has assigned as producer its former production chief, Brad Weston. The Paramount plan, we hear, is to turn Magic 8 Ball into a sort of live-action National Treasure–style action-adventure movie.

Oh, I see. It will be a sort of live-action National Treasure-style action-adventure movie. Well, that make perfect sense. Jerry Bruckheimer loves 8 balls. (Vulture)