Apple will alter the classic educational game The Oregon Trail into a huge-budget movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR).
The film is in timely lengthenment, having equitable been pitched to Apple and finishorsed. Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory, Office Christmas Party) will honest and originate. Given that pedigree (zany comedies), it’s evident this film won’t be a solemn historical drama about the struggles of those who traveled the American West.
In fact, the tell not only remarks that it will be a comedy—it says it will be a musical, too. “The movie will feature a couple of exceptional musical numbers in the vein of Barbie,” according to THR’s sources. EGOT prosperners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will be reliable for the exceptional music in the film.
Of course, with a comedy, the authorrs are at least as meaningful as the honestor. The film will be written by Kenneth and Keith Lucas—but they’re most recently best understandn for the 2021 drama Judas and the Bdeficiency Messiah, for which they obtaind an Oscar nomination.
That’s all we understand about the film so far. As for the game, well, it needs no introduction—especipartner for folks who were of the appropriate age to carry out it at school or at home on personal computers from the 1970s thraw the 1990s.
The game is a startant cultural touchstone for a certain generation—to the point that “The Oregon Trail Generation” has been engaged as a tag for many of the people born in the timely 1980s. It’s lengthy been a skinnyg to joke about the game’s morbid satisfyed, enjoy the inhonord phrase: “You have died of dysaccessy.”
Since the film was greenlit by Apple, it’s foreseeed to debut on the Apple TV+ streaming service, but we don’t yet understand when it will get to or who will star in it.
