You wouldn’t think an online Museum Of Supernatural History would be likely to get Hollywood excited about the possibilities for a movie version – after all, online museums are notorious for their lack of plot – but that hasn’t hasn’t stopped Dreamworks from teaming up with Musunahi, with an eye to making a movie.
Musunahi is well known to web surfers looking for info on the paranormal, with THR quoting the museum’s curator, Ernest Lupinacci, as saying that he considers his creation a “transmedia brand” designed to “be to the paranormal world what National Geographic is to the real world… whose purpose is to study, protect, explore and explain the unexplainable.”
Dreamworks already have an idea for the direction they’d like to take the movie, centring it on the curator of a covert organisation known as the Museum of SuperNatural History who must seek out and protect the world’s best-kept secrets. They’re currently talking to writers about the best way to make that happen and what sort of mission the film might centre on. It certainly seems that they see the potential for a film franchise, as the website’s conspiracy-minded focus on everything from Atlantis to ghosts, gives them them plenty to play with, and could inspire anything from a comedy to a full-on Indiana Jones style action flick.