To celebrate the Rock's continued cinematic success, here's our humble list of the next classic arcade game characters he should portray. Coming in at number five: Dig Dug!
For years, we've been trying to fan-cast the Dig Dug movie adaptation of our dreams, but it's been impossible. The problem: Taizo Hori, "Hero of the Dig Dug Incident," (that's his real name, look it up) is a character whose only offensive move is to jab a hose inside a monster and inflate that enemy until it explodes. It's a gruesome style of attack that should have given greater concern to the parents of the '80s. More concerningly, to effectively force that much air into a living being using only a what looks to be a manual bike tire pump must require an unfathomable amount of upper body strength, more than any actor could believably display.
But have you seen the Rock lately? Dude is stacked.
Only thing that's going to stop him is if his bike pump gets mucked up with monster guts. |
Bonus: Depending on which game art you look at, this is also a bold race-blind casting choice.
Will Atari fanboys protest, demanding a blue-skinned actor for the role? We can only hope so.
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