August 20, 2007
Johnny Depp to Grab a Fistful of Quarters?
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Even for the age of unlikely remakes and strange adaptations, this one is sort of a doozy, but see if you can follow along: The recently released documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters -- which looks at the bewilderingly intense real-life rivalry between the two men battling over the scoring record for Donkey Kong -- has already been established as one of the summer's most pleasant critical surprises, shooting up to 97 percent on the Tomatometer. And now the filmmakers want to follow it up with...a King of Kong dramatization?
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