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Bettinelli-Olpin, Gillett to Direct Choose-Your-Own Film

5/22/2026

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Summary

Bettinelli-Olpin Helm

Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett announced they will helm a Choose Your Own Adventure film adaptation.
Screenwriter Tom Bissell, known for Andor and The Disaster Artist, will write the script.
No official title or plot details have been released for the movie.
The announcement cites Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, an interactive effort that faced a legal challenge from the publisher.

Summary

Chooseco Revives Adventure

A 1970s marketing push seeded 100,000 Choose Your Own Adventure books in libraries, launching the series.
Chooseco LLC, founded by R.A. Montgomery and Shannon Gilligan in 2003 in Waitsfield, Vermont, revived the brand after the run of 184 titles by 30 authors concluded with Bantam’s 1998 release.
Tom Bissell authored 11 books, appeared in Best American Short Stories, won a WGA Award for Gears of War 4-5 and Uncharted 4.

History

Historical Context

In 1979 Bantam Books launched the Choose Your Own Adventure series, built on Edward Packard’s 1976 “Sugarcane Island” concept and eventually selling more than 250 million copies across 184 titles through 1998. The format’s decline in the 1990s gave way to digital experiments, culminating in Netflix’s 2018 interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, which faced a trademark lawsuit from Chooseco settled in 2020.

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Bettinelli-Olpin Helm

Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett announced they will helm a Choose Your Own Adventure film adaptation.
Screenwriter Tom Bissell, known for Andor and The Disaster Artist, will write the script.
No official title or plot details have been released for the movie.
The announcement cites Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, an interactive effort that faced a legal challenge from the publisher.

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