The double-take fact in this story about Universal Studios canceling the upcoming movie project Ouija is not the cancellation itself. The movie is, indeed, based on the board game beloved by middle school girls and despised by anti-occultist church youth directors across the country. So canceling it seems like a much smarter decision than the one which logically precedes it, that is, making the movie in the first place.
No, the big ol' pothole in this road is reading that Universal had signed a seven-picture deal with Hasbro, Ouija's manufacturer. Seven movies? Seven movies based on board games? Sounds like someone should have consulted their Magic 8-Ball, because I am sure that it would have advised against such a silly idea. Unless Mattel got offered a piece of the action, that is. Then "signs point to yes."
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