A brand new production company called CP Productions out in LaLa land launched by a pair of visionaries (No sarcasm - I genuinely applaud the cajones of these two!) named Christine Peters and Michael Cerenzie have purchased the rights to make a major motion picture based on a video game about opposing knights that flap around on flying emus in a never-ending quest to knock one another off their battle buzzards. They hope to have the movie in the can by next June. That's too long a wait for me. I want my JOUST movie now! Game Daily provides the money quotes about the envisioned blockbuster movie version of this classic quarter century old quarter-guzzling arcade game:

"We've updated the game into a commercial, tent pole movie."

"We'll cap each film with a moderate budget and bring in awareness with games, graphic novels, and toys."

"The film is set 25 years in the future and includes a Las Vegas suspended in mid-air."

"Gladiator meets Mad Max."

Yes, it'll be just like GLADIATOR combined with MAD MAX but with mid-air jousting on big birds set amid a gawdier version of Cloud City. If ever a movie was destined to star "Stone Cold" Steve Austin...

And given that the only controls for this game were a joystick and a button labeled "FLAP" I demand "FLAP" be the simple one-word tagline used on all the advance posters heralding the film's coming.

Bring on the DC Comic to be written by Steven Elliot Altman being used to relaunch the brand name to a new generation! Bring on the new, updated, 21st century version of the game that Midway is prepping to precede the coming of the movie! Bring it all on!

Like I said, I want to see this movie. Seriously, I genuinely want to see the madness that will be the very existence of this movie. Oh, how I spent many a quarter in my early youth playing this arcade masterpiece and later many an hour was squandered on the Atari 2600 version. I've even stated on numerous occasions that a movie version of JOUST would kick ass on a multitude of levels. Of course, that was usually in conversations where I was jokingly suggesting future Uwe Boll films - but I digress.

You know what other early Eighties arcade game is just screaming to be made into a big screen movie and now!

CRYSTAL CASTLES

Because if you think mid-air flying bird jousting spells box office gold then imagine how much money could be made with a LORD OF THE RINGS-style fantasy epic about a cute bear in a wizard's cap that collects gemstones and honey pots while avoiding witches, ghosts, skeletons, bees, and evil bowling balls.