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Apple is Turning The Oregon Trail into a Movie

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 31, @08:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-have-died-of-dysentery dept.

stormwyrm writes:

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: 3, Touché) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday November 01, @12:27AM (3 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Friday November 01, @12:27AM (#1379716)

    What is it with franchises and reviving old shit? It's getting desperate at this point: they don't have enough toys to turn into movies anymore, so now they turn to old video games. What next Donkey Kong vs Predator? Lode Runner Reloaded?

    I recall a time, decades ago, when movie studios had new ideas, took risks and actually created new things. Imagine that eh...

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  • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Friday November 01, @01:32PM

    by epitaxial (3165) on Friday November 01, @01:32PM (#1379796)

    The Tetris movie wasn't bad.

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday November 01, @07:44PM

    by VLM (445) on Friday November 01, @07:44PM (#1379852)

    The romantic comedy blockbuster of 2025, "Sudoku, the Movie". Expect endless tiresome jokes about numbers like "420" and "69".

  • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday November 01, @11:59PM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Friday November 01, @11:59PM (#1379897)

    Rogue: The Movie