MGM Employs Scribe For 'War Games' Reboot

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has set Noah Oppenheim to create the script for Free War Games, the reboot from the 1983 thriller which has Horrible Bosses helmer Seth Gordon mounted on direct. Oppenheim, an old producer of TV news implies that include Hardball now Show, put themself into the spotlight by scripting Jackie, a movie about Jackie O that was setup with Black Swan helmer Darren Aronofsky mounted on direct. At that time, it had been imagined he'd direct Rachel Weisz within the starring role, but which was before they split. The project has been created by Aronofsky's Protozoa banner. Oppenheim also scripted Maze Runner for Fox and Houdini for Summit Entertainment. MGM designed a cope with Gordon in June to direct the film. It's one of many major remake projects for that reconstituted MGM, that also has Jose Padilha to direct Robocop and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to script Barbara -- however the John Badham-directed Free War Games is a that appears particularly reboot-able. The original starred Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy as computer prodigies who finds a mystery right into a military software program. They think they're doing offers using the computer only to discover they might trigger WWIII when the computer launches nuclear missiles in the Russians. When it comes to video games, kids were playing Pong in those days the amount of sophistication with vidgames and also the Internet within the digital age opens an abundance of options, and Gordon will be presented a large berth to produce a new undertake the storyplot. The offer also reunites him with MGM cake toppers Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jon Glickman, who have been at Spyglass when Gordon directed Four Christmases there. Oppenheim is repped by CAA and Management 360.