Hold your jokes about Hollywood's newfound obsession with board games to the end if you will, because we've got some serious news to share about Risk. The Sony Pictures film has found its screenwriter in John Hlavin, an experienced scribe who has written for The Shield, penned Underworld: New Dawn and wrote the original buzzed-about script The Gunslinger.
Risk, of course, will be based on Hasbro's war game of the same name. Fun Fact: The game itself was created by Albert Lamorisse, the director of famed French artsy-fartsy children's film The Red Balloon. If the new Risk movie turns out to be anything like the game, we'll excitedly buy a copy of it and then let it gather dust on a shelf as all of our friends refuse to waste a full Saturday playing it.
How about we skip Risk and go right to the Warhammer movie?
Deadline describes Risk as "a contemporary global action thriller based on the venerable board game." The fact that Risk is pretty well-removed from a "contemporary global action thriller" might have you wondering why they bothered paying for the license and basing the movie on the game in the first place. But if they didn't, then snarky internet writers wouldn't be talking about it, would they?
