Mattel looking to hire Chief Uno Player to hype up game...and potential movie?

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Mattel, riding high off the fumes of the blockbuster Barbie movie (which crossed the $1 billion mark), has posted a job listing for a Chief UNO Player.  According to reports, "the ideal candidate for this role is "someone who's just as passionate about throwing down a Draw 4 as they are engaging strangers in a game. The new hire is expected to create and star in social content for UNO games and must work out of New York four days a week, four hours a day, for four consecutive weeks. The person hired will be paid $4,444 every week, per Mattel." 

Talk about your lazy girl/boy job. Sit around an office for a few hours a day barfing up SM content for the game. Damn, I need to re-think my career choices.

Anyway, there's supposedly a movie in the works based on the game. Back in 2021, rapper Lil Yachty was tied to the UNO movie. The premise being pitched was a potty-mouth action movie based on the hip hop scene. However, when the script was shared with Mattel executives, it wasn't what they "had in mind". I can picture Mattel execs rolling their eyes so far back in their skull that it took a pry bar to get them in alignment. To me, the idea is better suited for the Fast & Furious franchise (which will keep cranking out crap for the next 100 years).

Right now, it's unknown if the rapper is still linked to the movie. My guess is Mattel would prefer to keep a movie adaptation to PG-13 to appeal to a wider audience (in other words, to make more money). Maybe the Chief UNO Player they hire can whip up a script in-between social media posts...which IMO, is a side-door way to hype up a potential movie and sniff around for script ideas. Or maybe that's the movie itself? Hire the Chief UNO player and film them interacting on SM.  Who knows. 

 

Photo. CNN. Source: Business Insider; Complex.com

 

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