Yet another board
game is getting the big screen treatment. After Ouija, and Battleship this is
the next logical step, to adapt a board game that actual has a story. According
to The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate has picked up the rights to adapt Paolo
Parente's strategy board game and graphic novel Dust, which will see We're the
Millers and Dodgeball director Rawson Marshall Thurber helming it.
In the alternate
steampunk 1940's reality of Dust, World War II never ended, and the World is
divided into three factions. We have the Allies on one side, the Axis, which is
not led by Hitler who died in Operation Valkyrie, and the SSU, which is the
China/USSR alliance.
"It’s a cool spin on a genre that I’ve loved for
a long time and it opens up narrative avenues that are just thrilling,"
said Thurber, who optioned the game himself and began developing it on his own
time. "It’s all my nine year-old fantasies wrapped in one thing, a World
War Two mash-up."
The project is still
in its infancy and writers are only now being brought in to pitch their take,
but it sounds like a fresh and interesting idea.
Source - THR
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