Last October Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner confirmed that the Universal Pictures’ adaption of the companies popular game/toy ‘Ouija’ wasn’t over just yet. At the time it was thought that the budget would be “trimmed” and it would likely shift to another studio. A few weeks later ‘Fright Night’ scribe Marti Noxon had been hired by Platinum Dunes to work on a new draft and now it appears that Universal are back on board and behind the project and will be investing just $5 million. Scribes Simon Kinberg (‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’) and Evan Spiliotopoulos (‘Snow White and the Huntsman’) have worked previously on the story but we can’t be sure how much of this has remained in Noxon’s rewrites. So less money equals less over-the-top action and effects which is good news surely for a spooky horror project. Not every Hasbro project needs to be on an epic scale!
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