{"id":15890,"date":"2011-08-22T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T23:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=15890"},"modified":"2011-08-22T18:31:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T23:31:59","slug":"wargames-remake-gets-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/22\/wargames-remake-gets-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"WARGAMES Remake Gets A Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WarGames.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14605\" title=\"WarGames\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WarGames.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WarGames.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WarGames-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>MGM\u2019s planned <strong>WarGames<\/strong> remake now has a writer. The studio has hired Noah Oppenheim to provide a screenplay that reimages the 1983 film about a high school computer whiz (Matthew Broderick) who hacks into a defense department computer and almost causes nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>Oppenheim comes from a television background that features producer credits for <em>The Today Show<\/em> and MSNBC\u2019s <em>Hardball With Chris Matthews<\/em>. He recently received some attention with his Jackie Onassis spec script<strong> Jackie<\/strong>, which landed on the 2010 Black List. He is also currently working on an adaption of the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller <em>The Maze Runner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Gordon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/24\/seth-gordon-remaking-war-games-for-mgm\/\" target=\"_blank\">is set<\/a> to direct <strong>WarGames<\/strong> and reportedly has been given a fairly free hand to bring the story into the 21st century and considering the advancements over the last three decades Gordon and Oppenheim certainly have a lot of options open to them.<\/p>\n<p>Via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/war-games-remake-be-written-225557\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">MGM\u2019s planned WarGames remake now has a writer. The studio has hired Noah Oppenheim to provide a screenplay that reimages the 1983 film about a high school computer whiz (Matthew Broderick) who hacks into a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/22\/wargames-remake-gets-a-writer\/\" title=\"WARGAMES Remake Gets A Writer\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4234,1056,4233],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-noah-oppenheim","8":"tag-seth-gordon","9":"tag-wargames"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15890"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=15890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}