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Michael Bay Set To Produce Ouija Board?
This is the bizarre news of the day folks! It appears that Michael Bay will be Producing a film about Hasbro’s necromantic Ouija Board! We get the scoop from our friends at the moviehole:
Michael Bay will bring Hasbro’s supernatural game “Ouija Board” to the big screen. The project is set up at Universal, where Hasbro has a six-year partnership set up.
Although the specific log line for the film is being kept under wraps, the film will be a supernatural adventure with the Ouija board playing an integral part of the story.
I can’t even begin to imagine what the hell will happen with this film. Will a scrawny goth teen begin to talk to the dead, only to awaken slumbering demons?! Will a gas tanker blow up outside the house as a sign from the nether world that the specters means business? At some point will the president be called into a meeting where he is briefed on the demon invasion, and their entry point?!
Who knows…. but I cannot wait to see how Bay wrangles explosions into this film. They will happen, and I’m hoping they will be demonic in origin. At some point I also want a renegade priest to punch the devil in the chops! International Friends – what do you think of this crazy news and how do you see a Michael Bay Ouija Board film playing out?
***Bay is producing this project, not directing as I announced earlier.***
This doesn’t really seem like his type of movie. Bad idea
Truly bizarre news. He’ll probably make it some over the top supernatural flick a la The Haunted. Then bring it to the outside world by having the ghosts/demons chasing the kid(s), who hop into a car and careen down the highway with trees exploding out of the ground at them.
OR he might go sort of the Final Destination route. Maybe a kid in the group of friends die, they make contact with him through the Ouija board and he warns them that death is out to get them all….then one by one the kids start getting picked off. I’m sure an explosion, car chase/accident, drive by shooting or falling off a building (and maybe surviving?) could all be accidents waiting to happen. The twist….it was never really their friend they were talking to! hehe
Damn it, I meant The Haunting.
Man this is a real stupid idea. Bay is going to generate interest in something that’s very dangerous.
Playing with Ouiji boards is very dangerous.
This is a dumber idea than Dumb and Dumberer. Maybe Uwe Boll is right, Michael Bay is a retard. lol
But seriously, it’s to early to dismiss this film completely.
i cant wait til copolla does procter & gamble’s- spic ‘n span- the movie.
George Lucas directs Mr. Clean: The Movie
Micheal Bay ” I never wanted to make a toy movie”
Wasn’t there a horror movie about a Quija board? All I remember is a woman that keeps on saying “TTFN”.
2 1/2 hours of an Ouija board with lots of fast edits and shaky cam .
Are you fucking SERIOUS? Come on, people. MAKE A CANDYLAND MOVIE!!!!!!!
Michael Bay IS NOT directing it, people. He’s Producing it. He’ll have the same role on it that he did on all his other Produced horror movies – absolutly nothing. He produced both Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes, The Hitcher remake, and the upcoming Friday the 13th remake and his role will be the same with this one. Platinum Dunes is releasing it and producing it and that’s his company. He’s NOT directing.
Thanks Slushie,
I was about to say that myself. It’s one of his Platinum Dunes productions.
@Christian
Can’t say for sure which one, but perhaps you are thinking of one of the three late 80’s early 90’s “Witchboard” movies. All three were helmed by Kevin S Tenney; the first film was w/Tawney Kiaten, the second w/Amy Dolenz. I don’t recall much about #3, but the first film is an underrated horror classic.
There’s also the Korean 2004 horror Bunshinsaba, which also deals with a Ouija Board.
So -it’s not like it can’t be done, because it can.
However, I would like to see more of a film that deals with the ideomotor effect.
I never did see Witchboard 3, but I loved the first and liked the second. it was a huge step down from the first but still enjoyable enough, if I remember correctly. The first was the only one out of those two I saw multiple times though.