There’s lots of video games set to get TV or movie variations within the subsequent few years, and much more that appear like they’d be ripe for the selecting. Bungie’s Future franchise appeared like a viable candidate, particularly after the studio was acquired by PlayStation in 2022, nevertheless it sounds like several plans to carry the video games to a brand new medium are have at the moment been dashed.
Based on Forbes’ Paul Tassi earlier within the week, Bungie was reportedly “tossing round” concepts for an animated Future sequence on Netflix earlier than issues fell aside.. Allegedly, this was in improvement previous to the aforementioned PlayStation acquisition, throughout which Sony stated it could assist Bungie “nurture the IP they’ve in a multi-dimensional method.” (For additional context, this assertion was made a couple of weeks earlier than the Uncharted film launched and have become an honest box-office success.) With regard to why it didn’t go ahead, Tassi wasn’t positive, although he did say it simply could not have gone farther than the scripting section.
Earlier than Sony purchased Bungie, the developer introduced on Derrick Tsai as its transmedia head. Tsai was a producer and director at Riot who helped pave the best way for Arcane to get made and change into a success over at Netflix. He departed round this time final yr, after which the studio employed Warner Bros. alum Gabriel VanHuss to function the Future’s head of linear media. VanHuss holds that place to today, and his duties contain increasing the franchise in TV, comics (which it’s beforehand completed), motion pictures, and so forth. It’s arduous to know the place this hypothetical present at the moment stands: Bungie’s at the moment targeted on the Last Form enlargement dropping in June, its new Marathon recreation, and nonetheless reeling from its highly publicized layoffs (to say nothing of probably engaged on Destiny 3). Based on Tassi, if the hypothetical present isn’t absolutely useless, it’s not coming “anytime remotely quickly.”
The thought of Future getting a TV present appeared like a cool concept two years in the past, nevertheless it’s a bit of extra dicey now. Bungie’s hoping to show issues round for each Future 2 and the corporate at massive with Last Form, and revealing a TV present weeks after the enlargement drops may simply take issues from “we’re so again” to “oh, it’s over” in a heartbeat. The sequence actually has the potential to thrive in different mediums, nevertheless it’ll sadly should be a ready recreation till the smoke clears round The Last Form.
[by way of Eurogamer]
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