Game On For WARGAMES Remake

That remake of the 1983 gaming geek classic WarGames Hollywood have been trying to crack for the past few years is getting a new make over in the form of script writer Noah Oppenheim. The Hollywood Reporter says Oppenheim will write the movie that Horrible Bosses helmer Seth Gordon was assigned to in June. Not much is known about Oppenheim as yet and without a finished production credit to his name he is one of the most untested screenwriters in Hollywood. He€™s currently working on two films, The Maze Runner, and another called The Secret Life of Houdini, but they won€™t be hitting the screen until 2013 and 2014, respectively, at least according to IMDB. In particular his Houdini movie must now be in question as Water For Elephants director Francis Lawrence is working with Rise of the Planet of the Apes writer Scott Frank on their own Houdini movie which seems to have the biggest studio backing right now. The original WarGames film starred Matthew Broderick as the computer geek who accidentally hacks in to a military computer and unwittingly starts the countdown to World War 3, when the computer challenges him to a game between America and Russia. Steeped in 80€™s pop culture and set in the shadow of the cold war it will be interesting to see how these two modernise the concept but the film seems perfectly fit for an update with gaming and computers advancing hugely since the 80€™s, when a hitting a couple of pixels between two lines could keep you occupied for hours, remember Pong? The film will have to appeal to an audience brought up on Black Ops and Modern Warfare. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAcEzhQ7oqA WarGames has of course already been rebooted in the form of WarGames: The Dead Code (2008), but despite including the original screenwriters of Lawrence Lasker and Walter Parks, the film was not a hit. Let's hope Oppenheim and Gordon can do better.