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From the Hollywood Reporter: Apple is turning the classic computer game Oregon Trail into a big budget action-comedy movie.
Grab your wagons and oxen, and get ready to ford a river: A movie adaptation of the popular grade school computer game Oregon Trail 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.
Sounds like a good day to die of dysentery.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by looorg on Thursday October 31, @10:18PM (5 children)
A movie about dysentery. Sounds kinda shit.
Not sure who they are trying to appeal to. "In the vein of Barbie", action-comedy, musical numbers. It just doesn't sound like Oregon Trail to me. Did we play different games? Is this some new kind of remake? Is nostalgia for Oregon Trail really that large?
(Score: 4, Funny) by aafcac on Friday November 01, @05:11AM
I doubt we'll ever see it. I hear the writers have died of cholera.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Rich on Friday November 01, @06:01PM (2 children)
That sounds like "Trainspotting" with junkie chavettes.
To the credit, apparently it is. I've recently seen the 8-bit Guy's video where he opens his arcade, he's got all the retro computers there, and he says everyone wants to play "Oregon Trail" on the Apple II. Not that I ever touched it during my over-a-decade long Apple II career, but it seems to have somehow traumatized an American generation that had it forced upon them in school for edutainment. OR. The movie industry goes to such great length to stir up hype in advance that they paid him to just claim it.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday November 01, @06:40PM
It's probably one of those things that cater to a certain segment of Americans. It's hard to see this having broad appeal globally, unless its marketed there as some kind of generic western and they sort of expand beyond the dysentery and cholera. After all there are sort of "western" shows that have become fairly popular outside of America that are still somewhat very American such as North&South or How the west was won.
Or it's parents of that generation what wants to re-traumatize their offspring. This is what we had to play when we were kids and we had to like it!
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Friday November 01, @10:15PM
The Edutainment games back then were a lot better than the ones that we have now. A lot of that was because they didn't have to be so focused on education, teach kids to use computers was a bigger part of the concept than it is now. Sometime in the mid-90s that started to change where there had to be more educational content to be acceptable.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday November 01, @07:38PM
I think it'll sell well to the gen-xers because it was a first experience with computer games as educational material. The memories will be pleasant because the game was mildly amusing, more funny than the average history teacher, and was a chance to get out of class to the computer lab to "learn" something while relaxing.
I am familiar with the concept of experimental archeology and obviously this is a mere game not a realistic simulator but I think it was genuinely educational. Better than watching a video or a reading assignment followed by a worksheet.
The biggest problem I see is it was an interactive experience, tell your player what to do and they do it. It would be like trying to make a movie about Lemmings, its not going to be the same.
Then again, Hollywood is creatively dead and no longer culturally influential (the tail is wagging the dog and now 80s computer games are wagging the tail named Hollywood). I think it should be better than a movie about Sonic or Minecraft but not as good as a real movie.
One problem with the game/movie is its not very woke. Its all about the "white privilege" of starving to death. So either its not about white privilege or they make the races everything except white and having them die on screen will be racist so I'm not sure how this will work. Also the original game was not about alphabet people. Its going to be a hard sell. Imagine in 2024 trying to sell a Doom game where the white male is NOT the bad guy, that's just not Kosher in 2024.