Just three weeks after Universal Pictures ditched plans to turn the Hasbro board game Clue into a film (again) with Gore Verbinski, things are not looking good for another Hasbro property at the studio: Insiders tell Vulture that Ouija, an adaptation of the magical board that was to be produced by Michael Bay and directed by McG, has been put in turnaround.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Turnaround! Michael Bay and McG are taking meetings with other studios in the coming weeks to drum up interest in their four-kabillion dollar Ouija movie, but Paramount has already passed and GUYS I DON’T KNOW WHAT OTHER STUDIOS THERE ARE! Is Videogum a studio? Can we put out this movie? The only thing we need to put out this movie is money, it looks like. So here are a few ways we can raise that money:

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Why do they even bother making trailers for these movies anymore? Just put it in the theater, and whoever it is that is out there (and make no mistake: there are MILLIONS of them) who doesn’t mind movies that are somehow both the stupidest and the most confusing thing you have ever seen will go, and the rest of us will not go. It’s called Supply and Demand or something. “OPTIMUUUUUUUS!” Haha. That does get me every time. “OPTIMUUUUUUUS!” I think Shia LaBeouf is a perfectly decent actor, but every time he has to dramatically scream a SPACE ROBOT’s name it breaks my heart. Just kidding, no it doesn’t. But hopefully it breaks his. “OPTIMUUUUUUUUUS!” Hahahhaha.

McG has won the contest for the gig to direct Ouija for Universal and is now in negotiations.

The studio’s planned film adaptation of the classic Hasbro board game about conjuring up spirits of the dead has had a tough go at finding a director but before the town shut down for the holidays, Heat Vision reported that McG presented Universal execs his vision for the project, which has a script by Tron: Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and is being produced by Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes.

He was vying for the gig against The Crazies director Breck Eisner, who pitched his take on the material the week before.

Oh to have been a fly on the wall at those meetings. “I promise you that my vision for Ouija Board: The Movie is an unimaginable travesty.” “WAIT! My concept for Ouija Board: The Movie will be much worse!” And on and on. I bet all the SUITS in Hollywood referred to that epic battle as McAlien Vs. BreckPredator because WHOEVER WINS WE LOSE. Do you get it? I predict a terrible movie in our future. DO YOU GET THAT ONE AT LEAST? Ghosts.