Game developer Fallen Leaf recently partnered with Studios Extraordinaires to develop movie and TV variations of their 2023 sci-fi shooter-thriller Fort Solis.
Developed by Fallen Leaf and Black Drakkar, and revealed by Pricey Villagers, Fort Solis takes place on the far facet of Mars the place engineer Jack Leary responds to a routine alarm at the titular outpost and his night time solely will get worse from there.
Studios Extraordinaires’ André Hedetoft and Andreas Troedsson are hooked up to co-direct the Fort Solis adaptation. On this unique video – which will be considered through the participant above or the embed beneath – the artistic duo brings followers of the recreation in control on the adaptation’s growth and explains why they’re making it.
Hedetoft and Troedsson had been each blown away by the trailer for Fort Solis that dropped finally yr’s gamescom and, upon taking part in the recreation, knew they needed to be the filmmakers to adapt it.
“You will have a super-cinematic immersive expertise taking part in it, you’ve got wonderful characters and actors that introduced them to life in the recreation, and you’ve got some actually artistic folks behind it, and I feel that is precisely the sort of dream venture to make,” Hedetoft stated.
“We even have on this story a few of the most attention-grabbing characters I’ve ever seen and you as a viewer or a participant are thrown into that battle with some actually attention-grabbing ethical dilemmas, moral questions, and science-fiction thriller mysteries.”
Troedsson added: “I feel each you and me, we love sci-fi, we love the thriller. When you’ve got just a few characters in a really remoted place – I imply, you’ve got all the things in Fort Solis, all these components collectively. And the thriller is that you just don’t actually know who is true or who’s fallacious.”
“What we’re doing proper now’s the most vital, the most artistic a part of the entire course of,” Troedsson stated. “What’s the goal of doing this as a movie and how can we emerge it into this new viewers as effectively that haven’t performed the recreation or will in all probability play it after seeing the movie or the different method round.”
Hedetoft added they’re at the moment spending a number of time taking part in the recreation a number of instances and discussing “the story that we need to inform. Are we doing this story from the recreation or increasing it? Or are we telling a completely totally different encounter on Mars? I don’t suppose we are able to reveal any of that but.”
Whereas nobody has been forged but, Hedetoft stated they’re speaking to “a few actors that we’re actual enthusiastic about.” There’s at the moment no phrase on if Troy Baker or Julia Brown, who starred in the recreation, will return for the adaptation.
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