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Maybe they'll throw a CG DK himself into it, too?

Beloved big league gaming documentary, the King of Kong, is getting remade as a mockumentary?

What?

Indiewire talked to Seth Gordon recently and one of the take-away quotes was about how plans are still going ahead for his debut flick to get a dramatic, scripted do-over. Initially, it was going to be a straight dramatization of the gamer vs. gamer drama. However, after getting some bolts of inspiration during his guest-directing turns on the Office and Modern Family, Gordon’s gotten the idea to execute it in the same mock-doc style that’s so seemingly ubiquitous for TV sitcoms these days.

So basically they’re going to re-stage the whole thing so it’s more interesting?

Power to ‘em. It could probably work, although it’s a little bit of a head-scratcher. I don’t know, I’m always a little amused whenever a documentary gets treated in the same turns as your regular movie franchise. Like when I watched Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer on DVD and it had a Monster trailer in the front to tip off anybody who wanted more of the same story, but with sharper drama or sexier ladies. Having gone to high school with honest-to-goodness pro gamer, I can almost picture them doing a more contemporary reboot about LAN-trained Counter Strike competitors to correspond to Gordon’s WarGames remake, too.

Unless it is a total lesbian porn flick where the girls are banging each other with sex toys, there is no fucking reason this movie should be made, hell there is no reason the original should have been made. I hated the original, never have I watch a film where I wanted to drive to where these people were at, and kill them with my bare hands.

Should I watch the original? I know of it, seen clips of it, but have never watched it.

If they make it so the actors playing Wiebe and Mitchell are playing DK64, I'm in.

I hear the original was borderline mock. Considering how they altered and misrepresented scenes all over the place. At least, if you believe Billy's side of the story, and I do.

@BooDoug187 said:

Unless it is a total lesbian porn flick where the girls are banging each other with sex toys, there is no fucking reason this movie should be made.

So, when is Screened gonna start reviewing porns, anyways?

They made a gamer mockumentary. It was called Gamers and it was awful. Learn from their example and nip this in the bud.

What the shit is the point of this? Why do people want to unnecessarily remake films, like that whole thing with some asshole wanting to remake Troll Hunter right after it was released? Movie people, you make me so mad!

@Claude said:

Should I watch the original? I know of it, seen clips of it, but have never watched it.

I would say yes. I found it enjoyable and interesting, and it's not a terribly long movie. It was on Netflix streaming at some point, not sure if it still is.