Fear Effect, Hunter The Reckoning Movies Optioned

Posted by simoniker on Thursday January 22, 2004 @04:42AM from the next-up-daikatana dept.

Thanks to GameGossip for pointing to a Hollywood Reporter article revealing that German uber-producer Uwe Boll has optioned the rights to movies based on Fear Effect and Hunter: The Reckoning. Boll, who had previously claimed his planned Dungeon Siege film had "major crossover potential because of its unique blend of action and fantasy, on the order of Lord of the Rings", and is behind the House Of The Dead and Alone In The Dark movies, says Hunter: The Reckoning (originally from the White Wolf pen-and-paper RPG) will be a "hard, brutal, fast-paced ensemble film in the tradition of 'X-Men.'" Hunter will "shoot this summer in downtown Vancouver", with budgets for the 2 movies "ranging from $15 million-$25 million", but it's not known why Eidos' Fear Effect was optioned.

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Re:Screw Hunter by dswensen · 2004-01-22 11:05 · Score: 4, Funny

If they want to adapt something from White Wolf, why not make a script based on Vampire: The Masquerade?

They already did, it was called Underworld. No, not precisely based off White Wolf's game, but enough so that WW filed a lawsuit. And the actors all look and behave like bad LARPers, so really, I think it works.