Sony Pictures have acquired motion picture rights to the Hasbro board game "Risk".
According to Columbia Pictures' Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, the film will be produced/developed by Hasbro’s Brian Goldner, Bennett Schneir and Overbrook Entertainment's James Lassiter.
"Risk" invented in 1957 by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse as 'La Conquête du Monde' (The Conquest of the World) was published in the US in 1959 as the first board game to offer 'nonlinear movement'.
The 'turn-based' game for two to six players is played on a board depicting a stylised Napoleonic-era political map of the Earth, divided into forty-two territories, grouped into six continents.
Players control armies with which they attempt to capture territories from other players.
The primary object of the game is "world domination," or "to occupy every territory on the board and in so doing, eliminate all other players."
According to Columbia Pictures' Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, the film will be produced/developed by Hasbro’s Brian Goldner, Bennett Schneir and Overbrook Entertainment's James Lassiter.
"Risk" invented in 1957 by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse as 'La Conquête du Monde' (The Conquest of the World) was published in the US in 1959 as the first board game to offer 'nonlinear movement'.
The 'turn-based' game for two to six players is played on a board depicting a stylised Napoleonic-era political map of the Earth, divided into forty-two territories, grouped into six continents.Players control armies with which they attempt to capture territories from other players.
The primary object of the game is "world domination," or "to occupy every territory on the board and in so doing, eliminate all other players."
