Ouija

While we continue to spin our wheels here in the States waiting for the "family adventure" that will be Ouija, based upon the Hasbro game which lets you contact the dead, our friends across the pond have a far more appropriate and sinister usage for the talking board cooking.

It's amazing to see Hasbro's Ouija adaptation rise from the grave, but that's exactly what it has done. It almost seems appropriate even. So what's the planchette pointing to today? The name of a new writer!

Man, the dead sure can be chatty. The last time we checked in with the major motion picture adaptation of Hasbro's Ouija, the board spelled out S-H-I-T-C-A-N-N-E-D. Now, however, the planchette is moving once again.

Hey, remember that Ouija movie we've been talking about for ... oh, I don't know ... forever now? Well the messages from the other side are coming to a close. Blow out your candles and pull up the shades.

While we're still of the mindset that nothing made by Parker Brothers can actually contact the dead on the other side, we're still really interested in seeing just where the hell a movie based upon a board game is going to go.

Since the powers-that-be are still using the description of "supernatural" in regard to the upcoming McG-directed Ouija, based on the popular board game, we're going to keep covering it. The latest news is that Evan Spiliotopoulos is set to rewrite the supernatural action-adventure film for Universal Pictures and Platinum Dunes.

And the proposed Ouija film finally has its director. And you know what? It kind of makes sense. Follow along with me for a moment if you will.

Universal executives will have some food for thought over the holiday break as they try and decide just who should be at the helm of their upcoming movie which focuses on the Hasbro board game Ouija, which is said to let you communicate with the other side.

That makes sense, right? A talking board lets you supposedly contact the dead, thereby letting all manner of angry spirits and possible demonic beings into your lives to wreak havoc. Why shouldn't a story about one be more adventurous and less horrifying? Go, Hollywood!

Okay so we now know what Taken director Pierre Morel will not be doing next. It seems as if Universal's Ouija couldn't cast a big enough spell over the hot French director.

Taken director Pierre Morel is getting closer to directing his next film for US audiences, but the question now beckons ... will it be an action packed ghost story or an action packed alien invasion flick?

With the year rapidly coming to an end (man, 2010 flew), two studios, Universal and Summit Entertainment, are busy firming up their film slates for next year and beyond. Get out your calendars, folks! Time to cross off a few dates!

Who would have thought a little movie based upon a Parker Brothers board game that supposedly enables you to communicate with the dead could cause such a stir in Hollywood!

It's been a few months since last there was anything to talk about regarding Platinum Dunes' next film with Universal Pictures, entitled Ouija, but the planchette is now moving and pointing toward a director.

With the A Nightmare on Elm Street junket in full swing today (expect a full report soon), Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller offered some updates on several upcoming projects that we've been waiting to hear about.