Choose Your Own Adventure Movie Adaptation

Before you start reading this article, go ahead and place your index finger on the side of your head. Then as you read, scratch periodically as a way to cope with the confusing strangeness of the following story. Apparently, Red Crown has just optioned the Choose Your Own Adventure series for an upcoming movie. Yes, the series of clever children’s books that allowed kids to forage their own paths is turning into a movie (or movies), but what exactly that might mean is anyone’s guess.

According to Variety, Red Crown is also looking to produce a television adaptation, but on paper at least, it would seem to have the same problem as a filmed version. How is choice involved if viewers have no real control over the path the protagonists take? It seems like this whole thing would be perfect for a slew of straight to DVD releases where audiences could use their remote controls to select how to proceed, but with almost no details on the table, it’s unclear if this is the route they’re ultimately going to take.

In the mid 1980s, Clue was released containing three different endings. The DVD even allows viewers to select a specific one, play all three or randomly select one, but that murder mystery was hardly dubbed a choose your own adventure. There has to be a larger plan here. When we get wind of it, we’ll pass it on. In the meantime, speculate away.

Mack Rawden
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Mack Rawden is the Editor-In-Chief of CinemaBlend. He first started working at the publication as a writer back in 2007 and has held various jobs at the site in the time since including Managing Editor, Pop Culture Editor and Staff Writer. He now splits his time between working on CinemaBlend’s user experience, helping to plan the site’s editorial direction and writing passionate articles about niche entertainment topics he’s into. He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in English (go Hoosiers!) and has been interviewed and quoted in a variety of publications including Digiday. Enthusiastic about Clue, case-of-the-week mysteries, a great wrestling promo and cookies at Disney World. Less enthusiastic about the pricing structure of cable, loud noises and Tuesdays.