As part of Hollywood’s mission to turn every product anyone’s ever heard of into a movie (just you wait, when they run out of board games and toys, we’ll start getting things like ‘Spam: The Movie’ and ‘Oil Of Olay: The Motion Picture’), Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes has been developing a movie based on Ouija – and no, Ouija isn’t just a generic name for spirit boards, it’s owned by Hasbro.
Lost/Tron: Legacy scribes Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsiswere were hired to write a script, and now it seems things are far enough along that they’re looking for a director. According to the LA Times, Taken director Pierre Morel is the lead candidate to land the director’s job on the film, although they don’t seem certain whether he’s just the man they want, or if he’s actually in official negotiations over the movie.
There’s still no word either on the plot of the film. Platinum Dunes has made is name remaking horror flicks like A Nightmare On Elm Street, and while Ouija could have been a straight up fright flick, it’s apparently being developed in a more action-adventure vein (the LA Times piece compares it to Nation Treasure), probably because Hasbro wouldn’t want to be associated with anything too horrific.
Other directors are apparently also being considered, and Morel’s involvement may depend on how things are going on the remake of Dune, which he’s currently working on.