Movies next year: Kane & Lynch, Broken Sword, and Onimusha in the works

Posted May 21, 2007 at 9:15PM by QJ Staff Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Capcom, Hollywood, Lionsgate
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With more consoles getting into more households, Hollywood is now picking up on the gaming industry. Thanks to the ever improving technology and game developers learning new tricks, games have been able to deliver cinematic experiences. This only means we can expect more game-to-movie conversions (or the other way around).

A few months back, Lionsgate Studios acquired the movie rights for Kane & Lynch. Now, Hollywood is also putting Broken Sword and Onimusha in the works, by CastleBright Studios and Davis Films respectively.

The Broken Sword movie will pick up where the first game, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (Circle of Blood in the U.S.), left off. Series creator Charles Cecil with his team in Revolution Software will be deeply involved in creating the movie, while Producers Jay Douglas and Nav Gupta from the fame of "Level 7" and "Quantum Heist" will be spearheading their CastleBright Studios company.

Capcom's demon-slaying franchise will be coming to Hollywood led by director Christopher Gans of "Silent Hill" fame, with a whopping US$ 70 million budget. The thing is, the story will be about a "samurai warrior who embarks on a quest to save the woman he loves and the entire world from long prophesied demons." Looks like series fans will have to decide if Onimusha and love stories work well together...

Kane & Lynch may be a few steps ahead, but it's safe to say that all these titles won't be coming out 'til next year.

 
 
 

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by - 2007-05-22 00:33:46
Davis Films Doing Onimusha Movie

DAVIS FILMS DOING ONIMUSHA MOVIE. Samuel Hadida's Davis Films will be making an movie version of Onimusha,Christophe Gans will direct the movie which this film will be a Japanese film production. Samuel and Victor will produce the film and there will be Japanese film producers to be involved in the project including a Japanese martial artist and swordsman to work on the sword fights and martial arts. Gans and Capcom will helm the script and the movie will follow the plot based on Onimusha Warlords game. Broken Swords will be made into a movie by Castlebright Studios and Ninja Scroll another Samurai ninja vs Demons of Kimon series based on Madhouse anime will be developed by Threshold Entertainment for a future project. Thank You. BRUCE ACOSTA AUSTRALIA.
by - 2007-05-22 06:35:07
movie

They need to bring Shadow of the Colossus to the big screen....that would be tight.
by - 2007-05-22 21:32:29
My Movies are Much Better

Please come and watch Postal when it is released. I guarantee that it is better than any of these *****ty movies listed above. Also don't forget that Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne, and House of the Dead are all out on DVD. Please buy them to support me so I can make more great movies.

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