Grab your wagon and cows and get ready to cross the river: the film adaptation of a popular elementary school computer game oregon trail Currently being developed by Apple.
The studio has plans for the film, which is still in early development, to be directed and produced by Will Speck and Josh Gordon. EGOT winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will provide original music and production through their Ampersand production banner. sources say hollywood reporter The film will feature several original musical numbers, including: barbie.
Lucas Brothers (Judas and the Black Messiahh) and Max Reisman will write the script for the game, which aims to imitate the 19th century frontier by tracking a covered wagon train heading west. Created in 1971, the game achieved cult status among American elementary school students by the 1990s, as one of the first educational computer games allowed in schools. It also became a cult favorite among American schoolchildren for its hilariously dark storyline, filled with broken arms, typhoid fever, and red intestines.
Caroline Fraser will produce alongside Kevin K. Vuffy for HarperCollins Productions (HarperCollins owns the rights to the video game franchise).
Speck, Gordon, Pasek and Paul recently collaborated on a special for Sony Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. Speck and Gordon, who are repped by CAA and Sloan Offer, are also working on the film. blade of glory and Office Christmas party.
Pasek and Paul recently won an Emmy Award for their work on the film’s final season. Just a murder inside the building.. He is repped by CAA, Kraft-Engel Management and Schreck Rose.
Lucas Brothers nominated for Oscar for screenplay judas and the black saviorFourth Wall Management, UTA and Hansen Jacobson. Reisman is represented by Fourth Wall Management, UTA and Jackoway Austen.
