Oregon Trail Movie in the Works at Apple

Seize your wagons and oxen, and prepare to ford a river: A film adaptation of the favored grade faculty laptop 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 characteristic 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 coated wagon prepare heading west. Created in 1971, the sport reached cult standing amongst American grade schoolers by the Nineteen Nineties as one of many first academic laptop video games allowed in colleges — and for its hilariously darkish storylines crammed with damaged arms, typhoid and dysentery.

Caroline Fraser will produce for HarperCollins Productions (HarperCollins owns the rights to the online game franchise) together with Kevin Okay. Vafi.

Speck, Gordon, Pasek, and Paul just lately labored collectively on Sony characteristic Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. Speck and Gordon, repped by CAA and Sloane Provide, are additionally behind movies Blades of Glory and Workplace Christmas Get together.

Pasek and Paul just lately earned an Emmy for his or her work on the final season of Solely Murders within the Buidling. They’re repped by CAA, Kraft-Engel Administration and Schreck Rose.

The Lucas Bros., who acquired an Oscar nom for his or her screenplay for Judas and the Black Messiah, are represented by Fourth Wall Administration, UTA and Hansen Jacobson. Reisman is represented by Fourth Wall Administration, UTA and Jackoway Austen.