{"id":5997,"date":"2010-05-14T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rollercoaster-tycoon-movie-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5997-rollercoaster-tycoon-movie-in-the-works","title":{"rendered":"Rollercoaster Tycoon movie in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One would think a theme park simulator would be an unlikely candidate to walk the game-to-movie tight rope. Well it is, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean it&rsquo;s not happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After announcing an Asteroids movie last year, Atari has now handed the film rights for Rollercoaster Tycoon over to Sony Pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE64C0GO20100513\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reports<\/a> that the Rollercoaster Tycoon will be a&nbsp;&ldquo;live-action\/CGI hybrid.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It is thought that Harald Zwart (The Karate Kid 2010) will be executive producer as well as director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The original Rollercoaster Tycoon remains one of my personal favourite PC games ever made, although I can&rsquo;t say I&rsquo;m particularly excited about the prospect of the movie. A tastefully done remake of the game on the other hand&hellip;e of the game on the other hand&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?5777-Rollercoaster-Tycoon-movie-incoming&amp;p=220135#post220135\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Rollercoaster Tycoon movie<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Pictures picks up film rights from Atari, Karate Kid director involved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}