Followers have had over 20 years of the Saw franchise, and John Wick is already celebrating over 10 years, with a fifth installment probably on the best way. Saw has develop into a recent iconic horror collection that has spun off right into a slew of merchandise, had its personal Halloween Horror Nights home, and even a online game again in 2009 and its sequel. Whereas Wick does not have the extent of crossover appeal–though each Wick and Jigsaw’s puppet have appeared in Fortnite–Lionsgate is seeking to take each Jigsaw and Wick into video video games for a brand new technology.
On a current earnings name, Lionsgate chairman Adam Fogelson talked about that there’s “elevated curiosity and elevated alternative” to make new AAA video games based mostly on Lionsgate IPs. Fogelson particularly talked about Wick and Saw.
“Our AAA sport alternatives and different gaming alternatives round John Wick and Saw and a few others that we’ll be saying quickly, we’re seeing elevated curiosity and elevated alternative, and we stay on schedule,” he stated (through Seeking Alpha). “So I believe in totality, you’re going to see a meaningfully additive monetary alternative coming within the coming years.”
Again in 2023, Lionsgate admitted that it was wanting right into a online game adaptation for Wick. Lionsgate president Joe Drake stated Lionsgate is “persevering with to have these conversations” about shifting the Keanu Reeves-led franchise to video games, including that there was a ton of power” across the prospect of creating a John Wick online game. Nothing got here out of these proposals; as an alternative, the world expanded with the spin-off movie Ballerina and the prequel collection The Continental.
With Saw, each video games weren’t well-received, and so perhaps the third time’s the appeal for Jigsaw and his macabre puzzles and deathtraps. Lionsgate had beforehand tailored the Blair Witch franchise right into a sport as effectively, with equal tepid fanfare.