Warner Bros is hoping to make the "Guiness Book of World Records" into an action adventure film. The company is currently negotiating a righs deal and Danny Chun has been hired to write the script. Chun is mainly known as a comedy writer who's worked on the Simpsons and The Office.

This won't be the first time the book has been adapted, however. In 1999, Fox network created Guiness Book of World Records Primetime. The premise of that television show was quite basic and made sense because it merely entailed the host of the show going around that world and finding people who were trying to set world records as well as interviewing those who had managed the feat in the past. Paramount, the film studio, pulled the plug on a similar project in 2007 after having developed a script for the movie, "Ripley's Believe It of Not."

Film critics and other online commentators are saying that a movie would be difficult to pull off. The film studio is banking on name recognition to pull in moviegoers in but as Eric Elsenberg writes in Cinema Blend, "Making a movie out of it, and creating stories and characters, however, is going to be much, much more difficult, but the folks over at Warner Bros. believes that it can be a goldmine of an idea as well." 

The popular book has been around for over 6 decades having been created in 1951 by Sir Hugh Breaver who was then the managing director of Guinness Breweries. As the story goes, he got in an argument with one of his mates while drinking at a pub about the speed of game birds and later realized that there needed to be a reference book with such facts. The light bulb went off and soon after he set out to create a reference book of the sort, which is now going to be turned into a movie.