On the heels of planned films for Monopoly, Candyland, and Battleship comes yet another board game to movie adaptation: Risk, the game of world conquest. Deadline reports that Sony has tapped John Hlavin (Underworld: New Dawn) to write a script for the film, to be produced byBrian Goldner, Bennett Schneir, and James Lassiter. What possibly could be done in a Risk movie, I’m not exactly sure, but it certainly seems to have more potential than freakin’ Monopoly. Get some great European actors to do their best Napoleon impressions and it could be gold.
Plus it gives me an excuse to post this. I hope they can work this dialogue into the film:
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