'WarGames' Remake To Be Scripted By Noah Oppenheim

Briefly: That WarGames remake that has some fans up in arms now has a writer. Noah Oppenheim will script the film that Seth Gordon will direct for MGM. We still don't know anything about the specific plan for the remake. When the involvement of Seth Gordon was reported, he was said to have "a wide berth to create a new take," but we don't know how that will manifest in the new movie.

We don't know much about Oppenheim's work as a screenwriter, either; his background is in TV production for Hardball with Chris Matthews and the Today show. His Jackie Onassis script got studio attention, but that hasn't been produced yet. Still, we can keep making guesses about how this new version of the story will incorporate modern technology, gaming and the awareness of networking in general, and hopefully those guesses won't be better than what MGM turns out. [THR]