When I read this today on The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog I was a little bit confused and thinking 'How on earth is this going to work?', I was thinking this as when I was little me and my sisters went round a friends house and we got this board game out as this was the only game that we hadn't played.
According to 'Heat Vision' Hasbro and Universal Studios were working together with Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form from Platinum Dunes Productions to produce a board game to film adaption but dropped this in August due to concerns the studio had with the budget...but now this adaption has now been given the green light after the buget has been reconfigured and reset.
For this we have to thank Jason Blum who was behind 'Insidous' and 'Paranormal Activity' as it's said that 'Ouija' will follow the same model as these two films,-this model being high-concept low budget which must be a godsend to Universal as the budget for their original 'Ouija' concept was thought to be just shy of $100million...not very economically viable!- and now it's thought that because of Blum the budget will now be somwhere near to the $5million mark...much better!
Universal Studios haven't confirmed a writter or director for this yet but Hasbro's Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir will also produce this....I just thought that Hasbro's VP and President and CEO are going to get themselves on these two projects so as to keep a very close eye on whoever directs them so as to make themselves happy that the storyline and everything else post preduction sits well and makes them happy but also makes new and old fans of both the Tonka Toys as well as the Ouji board game are happy when they leave the cinema and aren't thinking that they wouldn't go back and see the movie again, or that that was a waste of time going to see these movies.
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