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SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7 2008 6:00 AM

Brett Ratner Considers Ruining Guitar Hero

Tags: Brett Ratner, Guitar Hero, Rush Hour

It's no secret Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, Rush Hour The Second One, Rush Hour Again, and the worst X-Men movie) is an awful director. Sure, he's not the worst, as people are likely to point out, but he's quite bad at making movies and I don't think that's debatable. He's not such a likable guy, either. And he's made less likable due to the fact that he doesn't seem to mind being such a shitty director. Basically, he's Paris Hilton with a camera.

And much like he did with the X-Men franchise, he's considering ruining something many, many people enjoy.

Potential God of War movie maker Brett Ratner would really like to make a Guitar Hero movie. But the X-Men and Rush Hour director doesnt think Activision would want him to.

Ahh, they've seen his work with Chris Tucker, then. I wonder how far into Rush Hour 3 they got before coming to this conclusion? I'm guessing, a paragraph into the copy on the back of the dvd box.

Ratner spoke to my MTV News colleague Jocelyn Vena yesterday for an interview primarily about his Best Director Video Music Awards nomination for his work on Miley Cyrus 7 Things music video. Since Ratner has done a lot with Guitar Hero lately he had Miley pretending to smash Guitar Hero instruments on the set of 7 Things.

Genius. Yes, he had Miley do that thing with a guitar that every person who has ever picked up a guitar jokily pretends to do with it.

... we needed to ask him what else he has in store for the game.
This was his unexpected response: I love Guitar Hero and I think its a part of pop culture.

Very astute. Sure to anger the vocal contingent arguing the opposite side of that heated debate. Really, what the hell is he saying? Is there a group out there claiming that Guitar Hero hasn't sold record numbers of games, become an institution and basically (on some level) altered the way music is sold and bought? Yes, it's popular dumb-ass.

I would love to do a Guitar Hero movie, if Activision would ever let me. Im trying to convince them, but why would you have a movie screw up such a huge franchise?

Why indeed, Brett.

Not that I would make a bad movie. So that would be cool, to do a Guitar Hero movie.

Again. Not that you would make a bad movie... again. And you would. Please try to prove me wrong. But do it far from here and quietly. If, somehow, you succeed, then release it. But not a day before.

And here is his idea for the plot: It could be about a kid from a small town who dreams of being a rock star and he wins the Guitar Hero competition. One of these dreams-[come-true] kind of concepts.

isn't that the plot of a Fred Savage movie? I was going to say, the Fred Savage movie but then I remembered The Princess Bride. By the way, what contest did Brett Ratner win to get where he is?

Ratners been able to have significant influence on the Guitar Hero franchise through his Brett Ratner Brands consultancy.

Please let them have brochures. And possibly an infomercial. Do they just charge you by the level of douchebaggery he's able to bring you to? I'm saying yes.

I have a deal with Activision for their branding, he said. For instance, naming Guitar Hero: World Tour, coming up with the new Guitar Hero game name. Its sort of like [MTV's] Rock Band. So they said: Come up with a name. And I did, and it became Guitar Hero: World Tour.

Again, genius. A version of Guitar Hero that allows you to go on tour and he comes up with... Guitar Hero, ahem, World Tour.

Exec- "Yeah come up with a name for our new Honda Civic. It's a turbo."

Brett - "Ok! Uhh...How about Honda Turbo?"

Exec- Yes!

Brett Ratner. Is there anything the man can't do... terribly?

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Comments

Gillionaire

Manchester, NH

February 2007

SEP 07, 2008 06:32 AM

He'd be a good fit for Activision. They're idiots too.

Weatherpunk

Japan

June 2008

SEP 07, 2008 07:06 AM

Wow, as if I didn't dislike these musical games enough to NOT BUY THEM, this makes me want to eat $10 worth of Taco Bell, drink a pot of Denny's coffee, and then Let Thy Anal Will Be Done all over the lobby of Activision and Brett Ratner's living room.

On the other hand, I love to see the ass-end of pop culture fight amongst itself for my amusement. Yes, gladiators, BATTLE!!!!

Thickney

Roanoke, VA

September 2008

SEP 07, 2008 07:10 AM

A movie based on a casual gaming fad? Riiiiight.. Then again, there's a movie about Facebook coming out as well. I guess someone somewhere is eating this shit up.

Maudite

Mesquite, TX

March 2004

SEP 07, 2008 08:17 AM

The Wizard 2: Guitar Hero And Fred Savage and Jenny Lewis can be the divorced parents who have to get back together and go find thier runaway child. Wow I just wrote the movie.

bendingunit23

Canada

April 2005

SEP 07, 2008 08:29 AM

Jack Black will have to be in the movie. Maybe that old asian guy for the training montage after Jack has his first set back, now who should play his on and off girlfriend, who helps him up to the earlier set back and again after the training?

TheEnnis

Chicago, IL

March 2008

SEP 07, 2008 08:38 AM

I hated how he ruined X-Men 3.. Oh why couldn't Brain Singer direct it.

robroor

Salt Lake City, UT

April 2008

SEP 07, 2008 11:29 AM

The funny thing is is that he's basically ripping off the episode of South Park, Guitar Queer-O, which was made to mock Guitar Hero... So he's taking an idea from a cartoon that was completely mocking, and turning it into a movie?! Or at least attempting to. Amazing, GO BRETT!

Drake

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

SEP 07, 2008 12:09 PM

Baaah! X3 was SO GOOD! You can't convince me to believe otherwise!!

succubus1997

I'm lost

February 2008

SEP 07, 2008 12:18 PM

I guess he's better than Uwe Boll. I've taken shits that were better directed than his movies. Guitar Hero is a fun game, but it pisses me off when these punk kids are like "Wow, golly willikers! I can play the guitar cuz i can play Dragonforce!" No. No, you can't. You're rocking out on the plastic guitar, fruit loop. I'm not saying people who play it are dumb, I just hate the kids who act like they're playing the actual instrument. Anyway, a GH movie is retarded. A kid that wins a tournament? Hey, they made a movie like that in the 80's, it was called "The Wizard." Great job, jackass.

scylis

USA

November 2004

SEP 07, 2008 12:19 PM

Drake said:
Baaah! X3 was SO GOOD! You can't convince me to believe otherwise!!

why do you hate the X-Men?

nights22

I'm lost

September 2007

SEP 07, 2008 04:56 PM

Who cares if he does make one? I can't see how a Guitar Hero film would have any connection to the videogame franchise anyway, it's not like there's some sort of rich backstory to be abused or whatever. Just what should we expect? A segment portraying a live performance of someone wielding a fake plastic Gibson whilst a note chart scrolls along the bottom of the screen? Yeah, that'd be awesome. *I* should direct it.

The article is written like anyone *but* Brett Ratner could make a decent movie out of it, which frankly is utter shite.