The classic Cinemaware video game is getting the big screen treatment. Details here...
NewsFans of the work of classic video games company Cinemaware will, we suspect, have clicked on this story hoping that we were about to talk about the 16-bit classic videogame, It Came From The Desert.
And we are.
The game, a heartfelt homage to 1950s B-movies, arrived in the late 1980s, and mixed action, horror, comedy, and bloody big ants. If you're thinking that sounds in particular like Them!, then bonus points.
In one of those modern culture cycles of fate, then, a game based around a film is now being turned into a different film. In conjunction with Cinemaware, Roger! Pictures of Finland has announced plans to bring It Came From The Desert to the big screen.
The movie will be a mix of action, horror and comedy, and the firm has already pre-sold rights to several territories at the recent Cannes Film Festival. Producer Teemu Virta has said that "the ants got very good reception in Cannes with the buyers around the world. We are now very close to secure financing, and targeting to start to shootings by the end of this year."
To help secure funding again, a proof of concept video was produced in advance of Cannes, that's now been released. It looks a little, well, let's go with "on the bargain basement side." Furthermore, it doesn't seem to bear too much relation to the tone of the game itself. But it's early days.
Marko Kakilaakso is directing the film, which aims to shoot later this year, ahead of its planned release in 2016. Here's the poster. No, we don't remember the motocross in the game either...
Can we have Wings next?
