MECC’s Oregon Path sport is changing into a film over at Apple.
Per the Hollywood Reporter, the undertaking is in early growth, with Will Speck and Josh Gordon connected as administrators and producers. HarperCollins, which owns the rights to the sport, will produce by way of its titular manufacturing firm.
Whereas plot particulars weren’t offered, the movie will reporterdly function musical numbers just like 2023’s Barbie and a rating by EGOT winners Justin Paul and Benj Pasek. It is usually unclear if the film will head to theaters or be relegated to AppleTV+.
Apple has had a online game presence for a while now, however the Oregon Path movie marks its second main online game film following final 12 months’s Tetris biopic starring Taron Egerton.
The unique Oregon Path was launched for computer systems in 1971 by designers Don Rawitsch, Invoice Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger. Initially made to show younger college students concerning the way of life of nineteenth century pioneers, gamers collect meals provides and make selections on their trek from Independence, MO to Oregon Metropolis, OR by way of the titular path.
Within the a long time since, there have been a number of updates and sequels to the edutainment title, helped by Gameloft reviving it in 2008 for telephones. Since then, Oregon Path has launched on a brand new system or format (together with board and card video games) each few years, with the latest being PlayStation 4 and 5 earlier this 12 months.
On the top of its recognition, it could be come pre-loaded onto computer systems and be very fashionable with children from the mid-Nineteen Eighties to the early 2000s. MECC additionally launched titles impressed by it that centered on the Yukon and Amazon trails that launched within the mid and late ’90s.
Newer variations of Oregon Path have included an up to date portrayal of Native People. For the sport’s 2021 launch, Gameloft sought out Indigenous historians to supply a extra correct illustration, together with extra becoming names and wholly new roads past guides or trappers.
An identical strategy has additionally been taken with 2025’s Civilization VII. Firaxis sought out a partnership with the Shawnee Tribe to verify its sport’s portrayal of Native People was honest, significantly since it’ll function the Indigenous nineteenth century navy and political chief Tecumseh.
