Dreamworks turning THE MUSEUM of SUPERNATURAL HISTORY blog into a Movie

Movie DreamWorks by Eli Reyes

Dreamworks is developing a feature based on, of all things, a blog. (Let's cross our fingers we get a GeekTyrant movie in the works too.) As bizarre as it may sound, the movie will focus on just that, the bizarre, using the site Museum of SuperNatural History, a.k.a Musunahi, "a multimedia brand whose purpose is to study, protect, explore and explain the unexplainable," as the basis for the film.

The museum's curator Ernest Lupinacci, a fromer creative director at Nike and ESPN, considers Musunahi a "transmedia brand" designed to "be to the paranormal world what National Geographic is to the real world."

DreamWorks is currently working with writers to try and figure out how best to turn the lunatic-fringe material into a screenplay. The movie will basically focus on a fictionalized version of Lupinacci, as it would center on the curator of a covert organization known as the Museum of SuperNatural History who must seek out and protect the world's best-kept secrets. It kinda sounds like Men In Black meets the X-Files, but on a potentially smaller scale.

Lupinacci who will also serve as an executive producer on the project, described the potential of a Musunahi film, saying:

The inherent drama, action and adventure of that mission -- especially from a storytelling point of view -- is that every time we shatter or even question an accepted belief, we have the potential to answer the eternal question, why are we here?

The movie has plenty to draw from with the site's focus on the otherworldly and conspiracy-minded topics and stories. Lupinacci explained:

On any given day, another ancient temple is uncovered by Google Earth and NASA telescopes come closer to finding intelligent life in the galaxy. Science is on the verge of cloning extinct creatures, and man and machine are approaching the so-called singularity. These sorts of things all contribute to the enduring fascination and universal appeal of this subject matter. The supernatural is ultimately 'the make-believe you can believe in.'

Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, will produce the Musunahi feature. Parkes and MacDonald's other Dreamworks projects include the Steve Carell comedy Dinner for Schmucks and  the Len Wiseman action thriller Motorcade

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