Worst Previews reports:
Evan Spiliotopoulos, who is best known for writing several animated straight-to-DVD movies for Disney, has been hired to pen “Ouija” for Universal Pictures and producer Michael Bay. “Tron: Legacy” writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz previously worked on the script.
The concept is to have a “family friendly” adventure (snicker, snicker) that revolves around the ‘Hasbro board game’ as a family contacts dead people. Evan Spiliotopoulos, who also wrote Battle For Terra, isn’t a bad guy, I’m sure–and he can do a lot of family friendly entertainment for sure be it theatrical or DTV.
Maybe I’m crazy, but I think this kind of crosses a line here. There’s a lot of people who think that there is a supernatural -occult connection to ouija boards. It definitely has contreversy around it. Somehow, the guy who writes Winnie The Pooh’s Huffalump and the prequel to The Little Mermaid…
I can’t help it. There’s just something wrong with this. It just feels wrong. We all know the occult has to be more kid friendly….
Weigh in, Int’l friends. Weigh in.
Oh please… Crossing a line? Its a board game, not actual occultism… More than anything its the same basic idea as Jumanji was: A boardgame that has powers. Sure, there are going to be people out there that will speak out against the movie due to religous reasons, but those are going to be the same wackadoodle nutjobs that burn Harry Potter books.
And its not like they’re going to be talking to murder victims and tragic accident sufferers… More likely it will be with something like historic figures or loved ones who have died of natural causes… IF they take the “talking to the undead” route with the story at all!
I don’t see a problem with it. Art has always poked fun at superstitions and aren’t movies another form of art? It all depends on the direction they chose to take the film. Given good writing and the right director, just about any idea can turn into a hit. Who would have thought a movie based on a 50-year-old animatronics ride would become a multi-billion dollar franchise? I also believe that people in general are less superstitious then they once were. For everyone that views the Ouija board as something linked to the occult, there are just as many people, if not more, that don’t or have no idea what a Ouija board is in the first place.
I look forward to seeing where they decide to take this idea.
It’s hard to imagine a Family-Friendly movie centered around something many people view as blasphemous.
Yoiu mean liek HArry Potter? Oh, wait… Bad example. That compeltely blows away your hypothesis.