HI-FI PIZZA OF THE APOCALYPSE 9: The CANDYLAND movie

Inspired by this apocalyptic moment from an old Daniel Clowes Eightball comic, Hi-Fi Pizza of the Apocalypse is a Monsters and Rockets feature where we chronicle the Hollywood rehashes, recyclings and recombinings that serve as ominous portents of the End Times.

After my previous Hi Fi Pizza post about the upcoming movies based on the stone-age video games Joust and Asteroids, Space Invaders and Missile Command, an anonymous commenter alerted me to the previously announced Candy Land movie. That is one serious sign of the apocalypse right there, friends. Here's hoping I still have time to finish this post before THE WORLD ENDS!

Etan Cohen - not to be confused with Ethan Coen - has signed on as Candy Land's screenwriter. Cohen has previously worked on things that were actually good, including 2006's Idiocracy and this year's Sherlock Holmes. Weirdly enough, Candy Land: The Motion Picture sounds exactly something you'd see on a movie marquee in Idiocracy.