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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: 2) by looorg on Friday November 01, @06:40PM

    by looorg (578) on Friday November 01, @06:40PM (#1379846)

    Is nostalgia for Oregon Trail really that large?

    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.

    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!

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