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Risk
Release Date: TBA
Genres: Adventure, War
Production Phase: Pitch
Studio: Columbia Pictures Production Company: Overbrook Entertainment
Who's Making It: Brian Goldner (Producer), James Lassiter (Producer), Bennett Schneir (Producer), Hasbro (Publisher - Board Game),
Premise: Based on the popular board game made by Hasbro where amies clash for control of the globe.... More »
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Sony Pictures has purchased the movie rights to Hasbro's board game Risk. Developing the property will be Overbrook Entertainment, the production company owned by actor Will Smith and producer James Lassiter. The latter will be a producer on the Risk film along with Sony's Bennett Schneir and Hasbro's Brian Goldner.
"The strategic thinking and the tactical gambles that players must take in the game are what make Risk a classic, thoroughly engaging game," Columbia Pictures' Doug Belgrad said in the pages of Variety. "Those elements translated into an action-packed, thrilling story are what will make this a uniquely exciting movie." [Full story]
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