Sony developing RISK feature film, hires John Hlavin to write script

It looks as though we are getting another board game turned into a feature film! Sony Pictures has hired John Hlavin to write the script for a feature film based on the Risk board game. Deadline reports that the project is a co-production from Hasbro Entertainment and Overbrook Entertainment, and that it's planned as a contemporary global action thriller. The film is being produced by Brian Goldner, Bennett Schneir and James Lassiter.

Hlavin has written a number of scripts and is best know for his work on The Shield. His original script The Gunslinger for Warner Bros. was on the Black List. Audiences will see his work on the script for Underworld: New Dawn next year from Paramount, and a heist script for Steve Zaillian's Film Rites and DreamWorks. The board game was created in 1957 by Albert Lamorisse, the French director of The Red Balloon. It was initially called La Conquete du Monde (The Conquest of the World), but was changed to Risk when it was purchased by Parker Brothers. This is the third board game-turned movie for Hasbro, who also has Battleship and Stretch Armstrong at Universal.

This sounds like the best board game of the bunch to turn into a film. I really think that Battleship is going to sink. What are your thoughts on this news?