Public Domain Games Ready for the Movies

Recently the announced Monopoly movie directed by Ridley Scott* inspired Gawker to list “Five Possible Board games-to-Movie Adaptations”**. But I was thinking why waste all that money on licensing of a game owned by people when you can just use some public domain childhood favorites.

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Its the year 2025 and the dreaded Ku-Utis virus has run rampant amongst the world’s population.
The virus turns people into monstrous creatures called “ITs”. They become pariahs shunned and run from by normal people.
The disease is passed incredibly easily, by simple touch. Ku-Utis bacteria infects the person touched immediately and they become an IT. Once infected they have an over whelming urge to infect others. These IT’s are rounded up and quarantined by the government but the disease proves to difficult to contain as it spreads like wild fire across the U.S.

An underground presidential bunker becomes overrun with ITs despite the Military’s best efforts they infect the President (William Hurt) in which case the monstrous being, with his hand on the President’s shoulder, in a gravely rasp says “Now You are IT!” before the President chokes and falls to the floor transforming.

Keanu Reeves is a genius Biologist who has created a vaccine known as “BaSe” but is he in time? Now He must make his way from his lab in Key West to the CDC headquarters in Georgia. Now Immune himself, he has to get there to create enough of his vaccine to save the world.