Hasbro CEO Explains the Ouija Movie...Or Tries To

Because Ridley Scott is making a Monopoly movie, and because there's a Candy Land adaptation on the way, and because we just learned this week that Gore Verbinski is directing a movie based on Clue, it only makes sense that Hasbro gives us a Ouija game. Now, the game was already sort of immortalized in the Tawny Kitaen classic, Witchboard, which pre-dates her glory days writing on car hoods in Whitesnake videos. But this movie will be fully licensed and stuff, and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner talked to MTV about how it won't be Jumanji or anything close to it. Instead, expect something more sinister. He promised something reminiscent of The Ring, and said that part of the pull of the movie will be the philosophical difference between those players who love it for being a game and those other players who think that piece of carboard and human-manipulated plastic really is a portal into the other side.

"In Ouija you ask questions and then you get these answers. And sometimes these answers are unintended answers. So be careful what you ask, that’s the element of the game that I think is so fun. You sort of use that insight about really playing Ouija as the jumping off point for a story for a movie, and then you link it to something much bigger.”

By something bigger, of course, he means Satan. Or a sequel. Or maybe those are the same thing. If you're asking youself, "What the hell did that guy just say," then welcome to the club. Oh, incidentally, Hasbro is also making a Stretch Armstrong movie, which is the worst idea of the bunch. And that's saying something.