‘Tron Legacy’ Writers to Point Ouija Board Movie

Published by Jeff Leins on: November 2nd, 2009

Universal has signed Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (Tron Legacy) to write the screenplay for the adaptation of Hasbro’s Ouija Board.

In February, Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller discussed the film and said “we’ve got a very high-level writer to write that, and we start writing it, I think, within the month.”

I’m guessing he wasn’t referring to the writing team now being announced, especially considering the eight month time gap. The two writers worked on several episodes of “Lost” before making the leap to features with the Tron sequel.

Fuller later promised a “huge movie” and “Pirates of the Caribbean with a Ouija Board.”

The studio is touting this as “a supernatural action-adventure movie,” which seems ambitious for a board game-to-film concept. The Hollywood Reporter teased these details, “It is possible that certain rules of the game — never use it alone, never use it in a graveyard, always say good-bye — figure into the plot.” Oooooo, spooky. Always say goodbye.

William Fuld created the latest version of the board in the 1890’s and has been pretending to communicate with spirits for over 200 years. Or more accurately, two centuries of people pushing the triangle around trying to spell something on rainy nights with nothing better to do. There’s nothing scarier than your friend forcing the word “fart” on a cheap wooden toy.

I wonder if the scene in Paranormal Activity already ruined the fun of this idea.