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Screenwriter 
John Hlavin has been set by Sony Pictures to write Risk, a contemporary global action thriller based on the venerable board game. Pic is a co-production between Hasbro Entertainment and Overbrook Entertainment, and the producers are Brian Goldner, Bennett Schneir and James Lassiter. Hlavin has written on The Shield, and his original script The Gunslinger for Warner Bros made the Black List. He scripted Underworld: New Dawn for Paramount, which will release early next year, and turned in a heist script to Steve Zaillian’s Film Rites and DreamWorks. Risk was created by Albert Lamorisse, the French director of The Red Balloon in 1957. He called it La Conquete du Monde (The Conquest of the World). It was brought to the US by Parker Brothers two years later as Risk. Will the fact it was invented by a moviemaker keep Deadline commenters from sarcastically demanding new projects like Gnip Gnop: The Movie, the way they always do when I write about a board game transfer? We’ll know soon enough. Hlavin’s repped by UTA and Management 360.
Hasbro has set most of its film action at Universal, including the Peter Berg-directed Battleship and Stretch Armstrong.
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Dependant on how this is written, if you take the base concept as nation states inspired to try to Will to Empire, it could either be a very interesting concept or one of the dumbest things ever to hit the screen.
Could be the dumbest thing ever to hit the screen. I guess they’re out of theme park ride movies….. Maybe this is backlash to all the emerging technologies. Bring back the board games? It’s too late, people. Board games will never be cool again.
Yes, “Slinky: The Movie” was so funny, because it’s so true.
I think board games are going to take over for video games. The world is cyclical. Someday, maybe a few years down the line, it will become very trendy to once again play board games. You heard it here first.
Actually, board games are already surging in popularity as they have undergone a renaissance in the past decade. They just aren’t boardgames Hollywood has heard of yet.
Still, I’m not quite sure what board games have to do with movies and an adaptation of Risk (and most mainstream games*) is a pretty big stretch. Some board games at least have a tiny shred of plot, e.g. I could see a movie based on the Settlers of Catan. Lesser known games such as Forbidden Island and Arkham Horror would actually make great movies, and Scotland Yard has potential. Or if you want a comedy of chaotic proportions, any Cheap-Ass Game would work. Though I suppose I’m the only one who would watch a movie based on Thurn and Taxis.
*Clue remains the exception, but that’s already been done.
OK, point well taken. I have played board games at parties in the last couple of years, or I guess they were more like trivia games. The 20-somethings brought them to house parties and they were fun.
Haha. We will not be silentced, Fleming. Bring on “Gnip Gnop: The Movie”. And “Hungry, Hungry Hippos” starring Kirstie Alley.
I read his script for HOPSCOTCH (produced by the 3rd grade) and it was phenomenal!
When are we going to do LINCOLN LOGS and ETCH-A-SKETCH??
I am down, as long as Michael Richards has a cameo and says “The Ukraine is WEAK!”.
Makes sense to me.
I’m personally looking for UNO: The rise of the reverse card, or maybe Candyland with Johnny Depp and Nicole Kidman.
Silent H!!
I would like credit for calling dibs on Gnip Gnop BEFORE anyone else!
I want to see Monopoly: The Rise of Moneybags starring Colin Farrell.
watch out for a rival studio to greenlight Stratego just to stay in contention…
I love Stratego. Is there an App for that game? Is there an App for Risk for that matter? Best way to bring these games back before launching a film franchise….
It will be really interesting to see how they adapt this into a feature length story… The Game is really just a premise or a feeling for the story, a place to leap off from.
Could be good, could be bad… depends on the script
If BATTLESHIP does very well, a bunch of these game movies will probably get produced.
If it sinks (pun intended), then probably not.
What’s next, Go Fish: The Animated 3D Movie?
So lame. Even with the willingness a young men to watch any sort of crap does Hollywood think crap like this will be successful? Well, there’s always the international market. Int’l moviegoers seem more willing to pay for crap, which is the only way to explain the international success of The Tourist.
Man, there is a real case of Memory Lane Syndrome hitting this town! What’s next, JIGSAW PUZZLE? This truly is revenge of the nerds…. Are there that many people nostalgic for their wasted days of playing RISK. (I associate RISK with nerdy guys who stayed home on Saturday nights.) It’s time for a walkathon. We need a cure for Memory Lane Syndrome.
Finally, a Hollywood movie that boosts tourism in Kamchatka.
Hilarious post.
Seriously – what’s the upside on this? Seriously.
Yeah OK it’s a board game but more importantly, WHO CARES about Risk? And I say that as someone who played it. This thing has low domestic potential.
Internationally, who exactly’s clamoring to see an imperialistic endless war/fight to the death? On screen I mean.
What next Hungry! Hungry! Hippo?
Hey, all you haters – welcome to the future. You just wish you had the idea first… which is why I am proud to announce right here and now that I have locked down worldwide rights to make the first tentpole feature based on a cereal: “COUNT CHOCULA: The Early Years.” Read it and weep, bitches.
No love for Boo-Berry? Damn!
Acquiring film exploitation rights to nostalgic brands will not save the movie business. I feel really sorry for the writers who are asked to write a script based on a board game. Reminds me of a scene from the Player. The script practically writes itself … if we can just figure out a way to get rid of these actors …
This is…seriously…the DUMBEST movie franchise idea I’ve ever heard. Impossibly bad.
And I thought the vampire and fairy tale trends were lame…
And it comes with a pre-built sequel:
Castle Risk.
And a viral remix called ‘nuclear risk’.
Does this help Pascal and Lynton sleep at night? Because it gives me nightmares.
Nothing to worry about–I’m sure it will turn out at least as good as Dungeons and Dragons.
Of course, the only thing that made that movie watchable was the $1 theather that had the movie shifted so we could see the boom mic in every shot. I think it even had its own credit in our version.
Let’s continue this thread of hilarious “What’s next, [insert zany 1971 game here]?!?!” It’s got edge. Explore the space.
How about an Axis & Allies game?