Travel Movie Watch: ‘Risk’

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  11.05.09 | 11:13 AM ET

Photo by hellosputnik via Flickr (Creative Commons)

News broke yesterday that a movie version of the classic board game is in the works, with Will Smith as a producer and possible star. Blogger Colin Boyd is excited about the project, but I’m not so sure.

My favorite thing about the game was always the board itself—if you haven’t guessed that I’m a map geek by now, you haven’t been paying attention—but I can’t imagine how a movie would capture that global sweep, the bird’s-eye view of people moving across the continents. I can only hope the producers care enough about that element of the game to try.

Tags: Geography for Fun and Profit, Maps, Movies, Pop Culture Travel, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


3 Comments for Travel Movie Watch: ‘Risk’

travel agent atlanta 11.06.09 | 1:08 AM ET

Wow, this sounds like an interesting movie. I wonder how they are going to make a plot for this though?

Darrin 11.06.09 | 2:26 PM ET

Sounds like a challenging transformation from slow-moving board game to drama-filled movie.  I wonder if they will use animated, bird’s-eye maps to show time-lapse maneuvers, like crossing the Atlantic to attack Brazil from North Africa, and then snap back to a ground-level battle sequence.  Better yet, I could see a scene involving a scheming general in a field tent unrolling a dirty map resembling the risk board.  If they don’t have at least some maps worked in to the movie, that would be a disappointment.

TambourineMan 11.08.09 | 9:37 PM ET

Wow, fancy playing pieces in that photo. When I was a kid the pieces were plastic Roman numerals.

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