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One of the world’s most popular educational games is one of the next video games to get the movie treatment. According to Collider – The Oregon Trail is in the process of being developed into a movie musical by the folks behind the upcoming “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.”
Directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck are working again with their songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul to bring the series to screen. “We were talking about what we could cook up next, because we really want to do another musical,” Speck said. “They mentioned [Oregon Trail], and we now have the rights to it, and we’re putting it together alongside them and some other exciting people.”
As weird as the concept to bring a game about 19th-century Pioneer life where players take on the role of a wagon leader guiding a party from Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley, there is room for a dark comedy in there somewhere. Let’s be honest – who doesn’t want to hear a song about dying of dysentery.
It’s those darkly comedic aspects that is what is drawing the team to the series. “[Oregon Trail] always had this dark band of humour 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,” Gordon said. “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.”
No studio is attached to the project at this time, however Speck and Gordon have said the movie is in active development while they decide if it should be an R-rated movie or something more family friendly.
