The director of Blumhouse's Truth Or Dare is making a Magic 8 Ball horror movie

The Transformers movies were printing money for a while there, leading every toy company to believe that every toy and board game should also be made into a movie, but most of those thankfully never made it past the “Hey, Playmobil should be a movie!” stage. That being said, some toys really do lend themselves to movies, which brings us to the Magic 8 Ball. According to Deadline, Mattel and Blumhouse and have enlisted Jeff Wadlow—director of Blumhouse’s Truth Or Dare—to direct a horror movie inspired by the fortune-telling Magic 8 Ball toy. A thing that sort of tells your future seems like a straightforward setup for a horror movie, and “outlook not so good” can go on the poster or whatever, so maybe this will work out better than the last attempt to make a Magic 8 Ball movie nearly a decade ago. That time around it had screenwriters Jon Gunn and John Mann on board, neither of whom are as accomplished as the director of Blumhouse’s Truth Or Dare.