Classic Video Game ‘Oregon Trail’ Will Become a Movie

FINALLY someone is making a movie of the greatest video game of them all: The Oregon Trail.

. Somehow, it seems like video game adaptations are treated as sacred. You have to really care about the source material, otherwise, rabid fans aren’t going to be happy. does hold a special place in the hearts of many kids of the ’80s and ’90s. But it’s a weird game overall.wasn’t really something many people went out of their way to play because it was their first choice. They played it in school, usually.

With how absurd the premise is, it could make for a delightful dark comedy. Not only that, but Speck and Gordon are taking it one step further, by also adapting the game as a musical. They have some experience with this whole thing; their latest movie, , where they really dug into where this idea came from.

“It always had this dark band of humor running through it, because your chances of dying from everything from dysentery to a cut to anything was ... basically, every move you ended up dying. For us, that’s returning a little bit to our roots in comedy, marrying it with the fun of doing a big musical, and also just the ambition of taking that very seriously as well and making a big historical westward expansion epic that’s also about dying from dysentery.

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