One battle royale after one other. After prolific crossovers with Superman and The Improbable 4: First Steps, Fortnite seems to be gearing up for a collaboration with the movie One Battle After One other. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the upcoming thriller, slated for a September 26 theatrical launch, is not what anybody would think about fodder for Fortnite, making this crossover all of the extra intriguing.
The official Instagram account for the movie put out a short teaser, recreating a scene from the film wherein DiCaprio’s character (changed by Fortnite protagonist Jonesy on this teaser video) solutions a covert name at a telephone sales space. “There aren’t any fingers on the clock. #OneBattleAfterAnother x Fortnite coming quickly,” the video’s caption reads.
It is unclear what sort of content material will come out of this collaboration, together with whether or not it’s going to take the type of skins based mostly on the film’s characters or any missions given by NPCs on the battle royale map. Maybe it will be a Fortnite Artistic expertise with the aim of selling the movie, however it’s laborious to think about what that will appear like.
One Battle After One other follows DiCaprio’s character, an ex-revolutionary, reuniting with different fellow activists after an previous enemy of theirs reemerges. The movie additionally stars Sean Penn because the movie’s antagonist and Benicio del Toro, Regina Corridor, and Teyana Taylor in supporting roles.
The potential for enjoying as Leonardo DiCaprio or Sean Penn in Fortnite is fairly hysterical. Now it is laborious to not think about characters from Anderson’s intensive filmography becoming a member of the fray– image Barry Egan from Punch-Drunk Love or Dirk Diggler from Boogie Nights wielding a pickaxe and operating alongside a humanoid fish and a banana with limbs.
Within the meantime, Fortnite studio Epic Video games remains to be attempting to get the title playable on iOS within the UK. This comes after an prolonged authorized battle that resulted in Fortnite’s return to the US iOS App Retailer and the Epic Video games Retailer within the EU iOS App Retailer.