'Oregon Trail' Action-Comedy Movie In Development At Apple (hollywoodreporter.com)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/10/28/2249214/oregon-trail-action-comedy-movie-in-development-at-apple
- Source link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oregon-trail-movie-apple-1236045454/
> Grab your wagons and oxen, and get ready to ford a river: A movie adaptation of the popular grade school computer game Oregon Trail [1]is in development at Apple . The studio landed the film pitch, still in early development, that has Will Speck and Josh Gordon attached to direct and produce. EGOT winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will provide original music and produce via their Ampersand production banner. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the movie will feature a couple of original musical numbers in the vein of Barbie.
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> The Lucas Bros. (Judas and the Black Messiah) and Max Reisman are set to pen the screenplay about the game that is meant to mimic 19th-century pioneer times, following a covered wagon train heading west. Created in 1971, the game [2]reached cult status among American grade schoolers by the 1990s as one of the [3]first educational computer games allowed in schools -- and for its hilariously dark storylines filled with broken arms, typhoid and dysentery.
The film will likely debut on Apple TV+, but details are scarce at the moment.
[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oregon-trail-movie-apple-1236045454/
[2] https://games.slashdot.org/story/13/08/02/198204/the-history-of-the-oregon-trail
[3] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/07/06/12/1212237/history-of-mecc-and-oregon-trail
Games into movies (Score:3)
Well if Hollywood can turn "Battleship" into a movie they'll try it with anything. I wonder if they'll do "Monopoly".
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"Checkers: Infinity"
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Uno - Wild Draw Four Electric Boogaloo
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Yes. It's currently "in development"
Monopoly movie: Margot Robbie's company LuckyChap to produce film
[1]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent... [bbc.co.uk]
[2]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1... [imdb.com]
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68786095
[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204976/
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> I wonder if they'll do "Monopoly".
It almost happened. Instead, we got something equally bad - [1]Prometheus. [vulture.com]
Also possibly the Trump presidency.
[1] https://www.vulture.com/2010/04/ridley_scott_tries_to_explain.html
They picked the wrong franchise to adapt. (Score:2)
Odell Lake or escape high!
Already been done. (Score:2)
Already had a decent comedy, 3rd season of Miracle Workers
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Workers_(2019_TV_series)#Season_3:_Oregon_Trail_(2021)
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I'd like to think of it as a prequel to [1]Wagons East [imdb.com].
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111653/
My people all died horrible random deaths (Score:2)
How is dysentery funny? Starvation? Getting an arrow through your chest? Your wheels/axels/cart breaking? Freezing to death? Your oxen dying?
None of that was funny.
Perhaps they played a different version of the game than I did.
Obligatory (Score:2)
If the cast doesn't all die of dysentery then 1/10 0% fresh bleh.
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> If the cast doesn't all die of dysentery
Now THAT would be method acting.