Acclaimed voice actor and screenwriter David Hayter opened up about his canceled Lost Planet film adaptation, explaining why it by no means bought off the bottom in a throwaway tweet greater than a decade after it was first confirmed.
Do you know that David Hayter, the voice of Stable Snake within the Metallic Gear video games, wrote the screenplay for a Lost Planet film? I didn’t both, till he tweeted about it at the moment — nearly twenty years after the challenge fell by means of.
Hayter spoke up concerning the movie on October 27, 2026, reminding followers that sure, he writes for motion pictures, and a kind of motion pictures would have been an absolute dream for followers of Capcom’s long-forgotten sci-fi shooter collection Lost Planet.
Enjoyable Truth: I wrote an enormous LOST PLANET film for Warner Brothers in 2008, after which your complete monetary world crashed, and that was the tip of it.
— David Hayter (@DavidBHayter) October 27, 2026
“Enjoyable Truth: I wrote an enormous Lost Planet film for Warner Brothers in 2008, after which your complete monetary world crashed, and that was the tip of it,” he wrote.
Whereas Lost Planet’s demise has been totally catalogued at this level — and it’s been so lengthy that newer generations have been utterly unaware that it even existed, within the first place — this seems to be considered one of only a few instances Hayter has spoken on the 2008 monetary disaster taking part in an element within the challenge’s untimely finish.
Beforehand, Hayter mentioned that inner firm politics was guilty, telling MTV in 2010 that there have been “some inner points between a few the businesses, which I believe has induced a delay there.”
And in 2014, Hayter informed IGN that the film — which he described as a “Lawrence of Arabia on an ice planet” — was interrupted by the monetary disaster. “Sadly, proper concerning the time I used to be delivering the script, the monetary crash hit, and it simply devastated the enterprise — in ways in which I do not assume individuals grasped. Like, I’d get telephone calls saying, ‘Effectively, Disney needs to do such-and-such, however they’re out of cash till August,’” he defined.
“I heard that about a variety of studios. ‘Oh, they’re out of cash till January,’ or no matter, and I might by no means heard that a couple of film studio earlier than. So within the midst of all of that turmoil, it simply went away, as this stuff are likely to do. So, , I assume Warners most likely nonetheless owns it, and so they have my script. I do not know if there are any plans to carry it again up or not. However that was simply a kind of Hollywood casualties, sadly.”
Hayter expounded on some particulars about his Lost Planet film in his interview with MTV, saying it “had this unbelievable visible world. Nice fits of armor, nice creatures, and its story was about power — the dwindling power assets of the Earth and the way we’re going to different planets to [solve that problem]. So I believed it was actually well timed and the world was stunning. And the opposite factor that I actually felt as a screenwriter made it supreme for adaptation was, the unique story within the recreation was… not… nice.”
“It was kind of introduced in a really Japanese storytelling trend. It’s very elliptical and tough to observe, and also you’re probably not certain who’s who. That’s positive in a recreation as a result of… you’re actually attempting to get to the following stage. It’s an important alternative for me as a screenwriter to step in and infuse that unbelievable visible world with a extremely compelling — for lack of a greater time period — American-structured movie.”
For now, all followers can do is pine after what may have been… although, given Capcom’s renewed curiosity in “reactivating IPs that haven’t had a brand new title launch just lately,” on high of its profitable film variations for Resident Evil and Avenue Fighter, it’s doable that Hayter’s long-awaited Lost Planet flick may come to mild. (However possibly that’s simply me attempting to manage.)
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