An nameless reader quotes a report from the Hollywood Reporter: Seize your wagons and oxen, and prepare to ford a river: A film adaptation of the favored grade faculty pc sport Oregon Path is in improvement at Apple. The studio landed the movie pitch, nonetheless in early improvement, that has Will Speck and Josh Gordon hooked up to direct and produce. EGOT winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will present authentic music and produce through their Ampersand manufacturing banner. Sources inform The Hollywood Reporter that the film will function a few authentic musical numbers within the vein of Barbie.
The Lucas Bros. (Judas and the Black Messiah) and Max Reisman are set to pen the screenplay in regards to the sport that’s meant to imitate Nineteenth-century pioneer instances, following a lined wagon practice heading west. Created in 1971, the sport reached cult standing amongst American grade schoolers by the Nineteen Nineties as one of many first academic pc video games allowed in faculties — and for its hilariously darkish storylines stuffed with damaged arms, typhoid and dysentery. The movie will possible debut on Apple TV+, however particulars are scarce for the time being.
