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Earlier this year it was announced that the hit zombie game “The Last of Us” may be getting a series adaptation. It’s officially happening! HBO has ordered the series with the game’s creator and writer Neil Druckmann co-writing and producing with the first season covering the first game of the franchise. Variety is reporting that “The series takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.” Craig Mazin (“Chernobyl”) is developing and executive producing the series for HBO and will be co-writing along with Druckmann. “Craig and Neil are visionaries in a league of their own,” Francesca Orsi, executive vice president of HBO Programming, states. “With them at the helm alongside the incomparable Carolyn
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Nearly ten years have passed since we got a new installment of the Silent Hill franchise. Now, out of nowhere the original director, Christopher Gans has revealed that a new Silent Hill movie is in the works. While speaking with the website Allocine, Gans teased not only a new Silent Hill but a Project Zero (known as Fatal Frame in the United States) adaptation as well. I have two horror film projects with [producer] Victor Hadida,” Gans told the French site. “I am working on the adaptation of the video game Project Zero. The film will take place in Japan. I especially don’t want to uproot the game from its Japanese haunted house steeting. And we’re also working on a new Silent Hill. Silent Hill, and adaptation of the video game of the same name, made its debut back in 2006 and starred Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, and Laurie Holden. When her adoptive father disappears, Sharon Da Silva (Jodelle Ferland)
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Henry Cavill stars as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s upcoming series “The Witcher,” based on the best-selling gaming franchise and fantasy book series. The trailer has arrived, teasing a show filled with epic action. “The Witcher” is a tale of fate and family. “Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.” When destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress and a princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the volatile continent together. Cavill stars alongside Eamon Farren (Twin Peaks), Joey Batey (Knighfall), Lars Mikkelsen (House of Cards), Royce Pierreson (Wanderlust), and Maciej Musial (1983). “The Witcher” premieres on Netflix on December 20, 2019.
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This October Universal 1440 Entertainment, part of Universal Home Pictures Home Entertainment, opens a portal to Hell with Doom: Annihilation, a new adaptation of the Doom video game. “On the darkest moon of Mars, scientists have found an ancient portal which allows teleportation throughout the universe. Considered to be mankind’s greatest discovery, it’s actually a gateway from hell, unleashing a swarm of demons looking to steal the souls of everyone who gets in their way. It’s up to Lieutenant Joan Dark and an elite unit of Marines to destroy an ever-growing horde of bloodsucking and soul-stealing beasts and prevent them from taking over planet earth.” Written and directed by Tony Giglio (S.W.A.T.: Under Siege), the straight to home video movie stars Amy Manson, Dominic Mafham, Luke Allen-Gale, and Nina Bergman. Doom: Annihilation will be unleashed on October 1st, but you can pre-order your copy now.
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Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich is teaming back up with director Paul W.S. Anderson (her husband) and producer Jeremy Bolt for Constantin Film’s Monster Hunter, Variety reports. Set to begin production this September with a $60 million budget in South Africa, the film is an adaptation of the video game franchise that first debuted back in 2008. The game tasks players with hunting down monsters. Anderson revealed that in the film, for every monster, there is a hero.” “An ordinary man in a dead end job discovers that he is actually the descendant of an ancient hero. He must travel to a mystical world to train to become a Monster Hunter before the mythical creatures from that world destroy ours.” There are no real central characters so it’s a bit like when we first approached Resident Evil and imposed our own characters and story on that world,” Anderson stated. “I think this is a perfect IP for us to do
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Earlier this year it was announced that the hit zombie game “The Last of Us” may be getting a series adaptation. It’s officially happening! HBO has ordered the series with the game’s creator and writer Neil Druckmann co-writing and producing with the first season covering the first game of the franchise. Variety is reporting that “The series takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse across the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.” Craig Mazin (“Chernobyl”) is developing and executive producing the series for HBO and will be co-writing along with Druckmann. “Craig and Neil are visionaries in a league of their own,” Francesca Orsi, executive vice president of HBO Programming, states. “With them at the helm alongside the incomparable Carolyn
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GamingMoviesNewsTrailers
Nearly ten years have passed since we got a new installment of the Silent Hill franchise. Now, out of nowhere the original director, Christopher Gans has revealed that a new Silent Hill movie is in the works. While speaking with the website Allocine, Gans teased not only a new Silent Hill but a Project Zero (known as Fatal Frame in the United States) adaptation as well. I have two horror film projects with [producer] Victor Hadida,” Gans told the French site. “I am working on the adaptation of the video game Project Zero. The film will take place in Japan. I especially don’t want to uproot the game from its Japanese haunted house steeting. And we’re also working on a new Silent Hill. Silent Hill, and adaptation of the video game of the same name, made its debut back in 2006 and starred Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, and Laurie Holden. When her adoptive father disappears, Sharon Da Silva (Jodelle Ferland)
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Henry Cavill stars as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s upcoming series “The Witcher,” based on the best-selling gaming franchise and fantasy book series. The trailer has arrived, teasing a show filled with epic action. “The Witcher” is a tale of fate and family. “Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.” When destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress and a princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the volatile continent together. Cavill stars alongside Eamon Farren (Twin Peaks), Joey Batey (Knighfall), Lars Mikkelsen (House of Cards), Royce Pierreson (Wanderlust), and Maciej Musial (1983). “The Witcher” premieres on Netflix on December 20, 2019.
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This October Universal 1440 Entertainment, part of Universal Home Pictures Home Entertainment, opens a portal to Hell with Doom: Annihilation, a new adaptation of the Doom video game. “On the darkest moon of Mars, scientists have found an ancient portal which allows teleportation throughout the universe. Considered to be mankind’s greatest discovery, it’s actually a gateway from hell, unleashing a swarm of demons looking to steal the souls of everyone who gets in their way. It’s up to Lieutenant Joan Dark and an elite unit of Marines to destroy an ever-growing horde of bloodsucking and soul-stealing beasts and prevent them from taking over planet earth.” Written and directed by Tony Giglio (S.W.A.T.: Under Siege), the straight to home video movie stars Amy Manson, Dominic Mafham, Luke Allen-Gale, and Nina Bergman. Doom: Annihilation will be unleashed on October 1st, but you can pre-order your copy now.
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Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich is teaming back up with director Paul W.S. Anderson (her husband) and producer Jeremy Bolt for Constantin Film’s Monster Hunter, Variety reports. Set to begin production this September with a $60 million budget in South Africa, the film is an adaptation of the video game franchise that first debuted back in 2008. The game tasks players with hunting down monsters. Anderson revealed that in the film, for every monster, there is a hero.” “An ordinary man in a dead end job discovers that he is actually the descendant of an ancient hero. He must travel to a mystical world to train to become a Monster Hunter before the mythical creatures from that world destroy ours.” There are no real central characters so it’s a bit like when we first approached Resident Evil and imposed our own characters and story on that world,” Anderson stated. “I think this is a perfect IP for us to do
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