Grab your wagons and oxen and get ready to wade into the water: movie based on popular elementary school computer game oregon trail Apple is developing it.
The studio has acquired a pitch for the film, which is still in the early stages of development, with Will Speck and Josh Gordon attached to direct and produce. EGOT winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will provide original music and production through their Ampersand production banner. sources revealed hollywood reporter The film will feature some original musical tracks Barbie.
Lucas Brothers (Judas and the Black Messiahh) and Max Reisman will write the script for the game, which is designed to emulate the 19th-century pioneer era and follow a train of covered wagons traveling west. Created in 1971, the game gained a cult following among American schoolchildren by the 1990s, becoming one of the first educational computer games allowed in schools and featuring a hilariously dark storyline filled with broken arms, typhoid fever and dysentery.
Caroline Fraser will produce alongside Kevin K. Vafi for HarperCollins Productions, which owns the rights to the video game franchise.
Speck, Gordon, Pasek and Paul recently collaborated on Sony feature Lyle, Lyle, crocodile. Speck and Gordon, who are represented by CAA and Sloane Offer, are also behind the film Blade of Glory and Office Christmas party.
Pasek and Paul recently won Emmys for their work on “The Final Season.” Only murders in the building. They are represented by CAA, Kraft-Engel Management and Schreck Rose.
Lucas Bros. nominated for Oscar for screenplay Judas and the Black Messiahrepresented by Fourth Wall Management, UTA and Hansen Jacobson. Reisman is represented by Fourth Wall Management, UTA and Jackoway Austen.
