Video Game Doc, King of Kong Is Being Made Into a Musical

10 years after its release, acclaimed video game documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is being adapted into a stage musical by original director Seth Gordon.

The movie - which focused on the real-life acrimony between two competitive Donkey Kong players, Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe - has long been rumoured to be turned into a more conventional biopic, but the reality seems to be a little less expected:

Speaking to IGN at a junket for his new Baywatch reboot, Gordon responded to a question about a new adaptation by saying: "Yeah, some scripts have been written - we're actually working on a musical right now, which is pretty great."

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