Spore to evolve into major motion picture
A branching out of the Spore universe is in keeping with EA's desire to extend the game into the kind of open-ended brand The Sims has become.
(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)The pseudo-Darwinian life simulator Spore has been pegged by publisher Electronic Arts to evolve from video game to full-blown cinematic feature film.
We've known the film was a possibility since last year, but now we hear that Twentieth Century Fox is behind the CGI movie, and Variety reports that "Ice Age" director Chris Wedge is splicing its genes. Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, who wrote Disney's upcoming "The Princess and the Frog" and the Ben Stiller pic "The Return of King Doug" at Paramount, will reportedly write the script. What's unclear is exactly how Will Wright's schizophrenic sandbox game might translate to 90 minutes of family-friendly linear story-telling.
Read more of "Spore to evolve into major motion picture" at Crave UK.
I see this as being a flop.
They should stop while they still have those millions of dollars in the bank.
"Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, who wrote Disney's upcoming 'The Princess and the Frog' and the Ben Stiller pic 'The Return of King Doug'"
Prediction: After the epic failure of "The Princess and the Frog" AND "The Return of King Doug" the Spore movie will be scrapped and Erb and Oremland will never work in Hollywood again.
- by Gianni_Simplicio October 12, 2009 9:13 AM PDT
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(7 Comments)Video games are supposed to be movies in themselves, but movies where you control the action and (sometimes) the ending. Having a game turned into a movie is about as entertaining as watching someone else play - which can occasionally be fun, but by the end of the first hour you're like "hey, lemme see that controller".