Hasbro's Board Game Risk Being Transformed Into Movie
Reuters reports that Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment company will partner with Hasbro to develop a film based on the strategy board game Risk.
The game was invented in 1957 by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse under the title La Conquete du Monde (The Conquest of the World). Two years later, Parker Brothers published the game in the U.S. as Risk. According to Hasbro, Risk was the first board game to offer nonlinear movement as players compete on a map of the world by amassing armies and conquering territory.
The film will be produced and developed by executives from Hasbro and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment company.
It will be interesting to see what they come up with. It will have to somehow involve combat strategy to be anything like the game. Hasbro sells several different versions of the board game risk, which can be found here.
There is also a movie in development for Hasbro's Candyland game - see here. Reuters says there are also plans for four more board game films including one based on Battleship.
