How A Cancelled Jim Carrey Movie Earned One Fan $5,000 From Nintendo

Among all the cultural heritage that you left in the nineties, one of the most doubtful is the direction of presenting competitions and the Phitizens that no prize or has been obtained so that it never wins it. When the story surrounding the McMllions scandal erupted in 2018, many children were in the 1990s, and it was insulting to discover that the monopoly victory game presented by McDonald’s restaurants was a smart fraud. The story was strong enough to attract some attention from Hollywood, and while a proposed film version of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon was not achieved, the scandal was covered with HBO factories, “McMillion $” in 2020.

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Do not mind table games; Some of the most famous competitions came in the world of video and cinema. There was no good number of these fake fraud, such as the monopoly scandal, but rather victims of abandoned projects or bankrupt companies. YouTube The Angry Video Game photographed a video showing in detail the prejudiced competition surrounding a series of games from Atari in the 1980s called “Swordquest”, which was never completed and had no winner due to a large part of the Atari movie while the video game was crashed in 1983. This happened in 2001, when it was offered a promotional competition for Onstar won a role in the next movie “Batman”, a prize that was never honored thanks to the proposed Batman supplement that eventually turned into “Batman Begins” four years after Christopher Nolan.

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Hollywood and the video game industry joined the creation of one of the most famous left in the history of each. In October 1995, an advertisement in a number of Nintendo Power made pirates an opportunity to win a role in “The Mask II”, which is the follow -up of the 1994 Jim Carrey movie.

When “The MASK” was released in the summer of 1994 by the New Line Cinema distributor at the time, and received $ 351.6 million with a budget of $ 18-23 million, it seems that a supplement will be inevitable. New Line was already great in the privileges, after his success was built on the back of the series “A Nightmare on ELM Street”, and director Chuck Russell enjoyed his success with the PG-13 comedy after he made successful horror films (albeit wonderful), which is “Anoes” and Remake of the Blob. “When it came to New Line, he collaborates with Nintendo Power to play their competition in conjunction with the version of the film Super Nintendo video game, it seemed that the completion was just around the corner.

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However, the success of the “mask” did not produce interest in more Stanley Ibcis’s adventures and his magic conviction, but he quickly followed his stars and director to larger and more attractive projects immediately. Russell was extracted by Arnold Schwarzenegger to make a “eraser”, the co -star Cameron Diaz was exploited for a number of comedies and comedy films, and the Curry star exploded mainly thanks to not only the “mask” but all his work in 1994, and fell to him in Bloom in “Batman forever.” In short, soon to run the competition, a “mask” supplement seemed a low priority for any of the main film makers.

However, for Mr. Nathan Ryan Ronk of Arbuteus, MD, the hope was a continuation of his mind. Not only did he see his victory in the competition just two months after its operation, but according to this article from Destructoid from 2015, the Nintendo Power Editor at the time remained in contact with him to keep him aware of the progress of the sequel. Finally, on the fourth of November 1996, Nathan was told that the sequel was postponed indefinitely, allegedly talented by some Snes games and a crew jacket for “The MASK II”. (It seems that Runk’s demand to receive this last gift is doubtful, because why does the new Line create the crew jackets for a movie that has never entered production? It is a mystery!)

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Although Runk was definitely absent from meeting and working with Jim Carrey, fortunately, he was looking for a great competition looking for his well -being. In that, the conditions and conditions for the competition stated that the estimated value of all the available prizes was $ 5,000, and this exact amount that Nintendo provided to him was a literal consolation prize, if he did not want to cross his fingers and hopes that the “second mask” will actually happen. Ronk also remembers: “They gave me the option to wait indefinitely or take the money … I took the money. Absolutely the right call!” In addition to getting a jacket (claim), video games, two big bouquets, got a printed apology on the last Nintendo Power case pages. Although the apology did not mention him by name, he was still a rare gesture of a company that admits its failure.

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The paradox around the entire story is that, after 10 years of the competition, a complement to the “mask” was already released. This film, “Ibn Al -Qenaa”, was not starred by Jim Carrey. However, it was replaced by Jimmy Kennedy. The film is one of the most ever made sequences, which are 6 % on spoiled tomatoes and defenders of it to no, and it is rare in the era of re -evaluation of unpleasant films. Ronk also noticed in his interview, it is possible that he could have rejected the cash prize in favor of adhering to a role in this continuation, but it is not sorry because he took the dough.

However, if the follow -up of a “mask” starring Carrie Diaz actually happens, as the stars have alluded to recently, Ronk may change his opinion. After all, obtaining a supplement will be one thing; If this happens and this prize option is practiced, this may mean that it can be in running to get a world record for the longest anyone who must wait to demand a prize from a competition. However, criticism may have been a better bet. After all, as the mask itself said, you cannot make the scene if you do not have green.

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