10-30-2024, 08:02 AM
This post was last modified 10-30-2024, 08:03 AM by Maxmars.
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I was wondering if this belongs in the video game forum...
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Oregon Trails was an iconic and very popular example of "educational" software... which seemed unabashedly fixated on how many ways there were to 'fail' at moving to the great western beyond during the expansion of the United States...
Many young people learned of things like "dysentery" and "typhoid"... something almost unheard of to them.
From ArsTechnica: Apple is turning The Oregon Trail into a movie
Subtitled: The film will be a comedy, not a serious historical drama.
Apple will adapt the classic educational game The Oregon Trail into a big-budget movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR).
The film is in early development, having just been pitched to Apple and approved. Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory, Office Christmas Party) will direct and produce. Given that pedigree (zany comedies), it's clear this film won't be a serious historical drama about the struggles of those who traveled the American West.
In fact, the report not only notes that it will be a comedy—it says it will be a musical, too. "The movie will feature a couple of original musical numbers in the vein of Barbie," according to THR's sources. EGOT winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will be responsible for the original music in the film.
As a non-subscriber, I hope some member will return here and tell me if I missed something good.
Oregon Trails was an iconic and very popular example of "educational" software... which seemed unabashedly fixated on how many ways there were to 'fail' at moving to the great western beyond during the expansion of the United States...
Many young people learned of things like "dysentery" and "typhoid"... something almost unheard of to them.
From ArsTechnica: Apple is turning The Oregon Trail into a movie
Subtitled: The film will be a comedy, not a serious historical drama.
Apple will adapt the classic educational game The Oregon Trail into a big-budget movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR).
The film is in early development, having just been pitched to Apple and approved. Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory, Office Christmas Party) will direct and produce. Given that pedigree (zany comedies), it's clear this film won't be a serious historical drama about the struggles of those who traveled the American West.
In fact, the report not only notes that it will be a comedy—it says it will be a musical, too. "The movie will feature a couple of original musical numbers in the vein of Barbie," according to THR's sources. EGOT winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will be responsible for the original music in the film.
As a non-subscriber, I hope some member will return here and tell me if I missed something good.
