Remember the classic Choose Your Own Adventure books that allowed you to interactively shape the story as you read it? A big screen adaptation is currently in the works at 20th Century Studios, and Deadline reports that the filmmaking team known as Radio Silence (Scream, Ready or Not, Abigail, upcoming The Mummy 4) are on board to direct the feature.
Deadline reports, “Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett will work from a script by Tom Bissell, a WGA Award winner with credits including Andor and The Disaster Artist.”
The outlet adds in today’s report, “No details yet as to the plot of the feature take.”
Deadline goes on to explain in their exclusive report, “The series officially launched at Bantam Books in 1979 with The Cave of Time, a book by Edward Packard, who had ideated a novel branching-story concept while telling bedtime stories to his daughters. Between 1997 and 1999, more than 184 of these gamebooks were published from 30 different authors, with stories set everywhere from the ocean to outer space and myriad fantasy worlds.”
No word yet on which of the books the Radio Silence feature film will be pulling from (if any), what genre the movie will ultimately be, or how it will work the line’s trademark interactivity into a movie-going experience. But we’ll be sure to report more as we learn more.
For what it’s worth, the books did frequently brush up against the horror and science fiction genres, and it’s hard to imagine Radio Silence not embracing some of those genre elements.
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