Earlier this month, Sony revealed that it plans to make live-action movies for Horizon Zero Dawn and helldivers. The latter is a cooperative shooter about space marines fighting aliens, and it’s not uncommon for sci-fi war movies to have big stars: Tom Cruises, Chris Pratts, and the like. If it were up to the executives at developer Arrowhead Game Studios, said movie would bring in some big names… and then it would have them all. die horribly.
Arrowhead recently held a Q&A session on helldivers Discord and some players had questions about the movie. When asked by a player, CEO Shams Jorjani said the studio “hopes to have as many top-notch actors as possible, as long as they are all violently killed off immediately.” After the announcement of the film, fans He made jokey fantasy castings that included Pratt, Jack Black, and Adam Sandler as nondescript game creatures or marines, like a Bile Titan. Since then, Jorjani’s comment has prompted players to keep running with the jokeso now stars like Sean Bean, Aaron Paul and Dwayne Johnson have been added to the cast. Do you have a star you would like to see in this movie? Tell us in the comments!
In a less jocular tone, Jorjani told another player that Arrowhead had been kept informed about “some” things about the helldivers movie. But he and CCO Johan Pilestedt believe the studio’s involvement in the film should only go so far. On Twitter, Pilestedt They recently explained that the developers “are not Hollywood people and we don’t know what it takes to make a movie. Therefore, we do not and should not have the final say.” The amount of input game developers have on an adaptation varies: game creators the last of us and League of Legends are heavily involved in those programs, while others have comparatively fewer cooks in the kitchen.
When it comes to the quality of the finished product, that varies too, and there’s no solid science to determine how much creators’ input contributes to success in the eyes of both newcomers and long-time fans. It sounds like him helldivers The film is currently in its early stages, if Sony even keep going with doing it. But given the influences of these games, it seems like you would have to attempt to adapt them incorrectly.
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