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Sony Developing Feature Films Based On Sci-Fi Video Games 'Horizon Zero Dawn' & 'Helldivers'
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Sony Developing Movies Based On Sci-Fi Video Games ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’ & ‘Helldivers’

Sony Pictures is still licking its wounds after releasing three Sonyverse movies last year with “Madame Web” and “Kraven The Hunter” being huge misfires. Those “Spider-Man spinoffs” saw some of the worst box office takes for modern Marvel Comics adjacent films (not made by Marvel Studios proper) and lost them plenty of cash. While the studio brass like Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra had blamed critics and press for audiences running for the hills, it looks like they’re now pivoting to synergy releases mining the PlayStation IP after things like the Tom Holland-led “Uncharted” (after ages being stuck in development-hell) and HBO’s “The Last of Us” have been successful in different ways.

It’s now 2025, and PlayStation Productions is looking to continue their partnership with Sony Pictures with feature film adaptations of both “Horizon Zero Dawn” and the mature shoot-em-up “Helldivers,” the former video game had been previously developed as a streaming series at Netflix but that was nixed over the summer (Sony maybe finally understanding they shouldn’t be selling off their video game properties to others). That announcement was made at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, yesterday, by PlayStation Productions chief Asad Qizilbash (via Variety).

“Horizon” focuses on a sci-fi fantasy primal world inhabited by robots that act/look like animals and “Helldrivers” is essentially space marines versus aliens, taking most of its cues from the likes of “Starship Troopers.”

We’re still waiting for some updates on who is going to be writing and directing those two video game adaptations.

You might have seen other big PlayStation Productions projects in the works including a feature film of “Ghost of Tsushima” from director Chad Stahelski (“John Wick”), a high-profile streaming series at Amazon based on the recent “God of War” games set within their own version of Norse mythology, a live-action feature based on the “Metal Gear Solid” franchise has been in the works for a while, another Hideo Kojima game “Death Stranding” is at A24, and a sequel to “Uncharted” at Sony Pictures as well being in the scripting phase.

This new announcement seems to illustrate Sony’s potential pivot to adapting their own in-house video game properties from the PlayStation stable after multiple hiccups in trying to flesh out the “Spider-Man” comic book lore with movies focused on obscure/villianous characters.

SOURCE: PLAYSTATION PRODUCTIONS VIA VARIETY

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Netflix’s ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’ Series Aims To Begin Shooting This Summer In Toronto

Last month, it was revealed that Netflix is developing a drama series based on the PlayStation video game, Horizon Zero Dawn. Well, it looks like that “early development” is much further along than previously known. The Ronin can confirm that Netflix is going to shoot their Horizon series in Toronto and other locations in/around Ontario with filming said to be aiming for a start this August and wrap around late March of next year.

They’ve already started prep on Horizon with production designer Mark Steel, who previously worked on other Netflix projects like Locke & Key and The Umbrella Academy, joining the show’s production team.

We’re still waiting on news concerning showrunners, writers, directors and actors. But if they’re aiming to begin production in a month we should be getting those announcements in the near future.

Netflix’s latest batch of video game adaptations includes the Lance Reddick-fronted Resident Evil series, The Cuphead Show, an in-the-works Bioshock movie, and an animated Castlevania show. Other PlayStation live-action projects in the works are The Last of Us at HBO, God of War at Amazon Prime Video, Twisted Metal at Peacock, Neill Blomkamp is helming a Gran Turismo movie, and a Chad Stahleski-directed feature film adaptation of the popular samurai game Ghosts of Tsushima is also in the works.

In a world where Machines dominate the earth and mankind lives on in primitive tribal societies, one woman sets out to find her destiny among the remnants of the ancient past. As Aloy, you must brave the Machine-infested wilderness and unearth secrets that lie buried deep within the earth. Will you embrace your calling… or pass into oblivion unsung? The player uses ranged weapons, a spear, and stealth to combat mechanical creatures and other enemy forces. A skill tree provides the player with new abilities and bonuses.