DreamWorks Peers Into View-Master Movie Possibilities

3D flicks are all the rage these days. DreamWorks is hoping to take it back to the future with -- wait for it -- a View-Master movie. In case you haven't played with (or bought on eBay) one of the old-school toys yourself, it's a weird combination of a viewfinder and binoculars that you insert discs into. So instead of peering at rare birds or your neighbor or something, you see the 3D images printed on each circular disc.

DreamWorks, which did 3D as recently as March of this year with "Monsters vs. Aliens," is negotiating with Mattel for movie rights for the old-school toy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio is hoping to bring on board the hottest screenwriters du jour: Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.

You know... the guys behind this summer's smash hits "Star Trek" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." They also executive produced the Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds rom-com "The Proposal," another big summer money-maker. DreamWorks intends for the duo to take on producer roles, and for their "Fringe" cohort Brad Caleb Kane to write.

Kane slipped up and Tweeted some now-deleted deets about the project: "It'll be like the old '80s Amblin movies: 'Goonies,' 'Young Sherlock' ... in that vein."

While this family-friendly project is still in the works, we're free to wonder what kind of story these guys can come up with about a toy that you hold up to your face and click like a camera. DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is a huge proponent of 3D technology in the movies.

Perhaps we can expect a hero who holds the View-Master up to his face and sees big explodey robots and Megan Fox running in slow-mo? Or maybe some sort of enchanted View-Master which sucks its users into the images on each disc?

Do you remember View-Master? Care to hazard any guesses about how a movie might work? Do you think the project is in good hands with DreamWorks?

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