Sony seems determined to turn every PlayStation game in its library into a movie or TV show — and it has continued that push by announcing that it’s developing live-action movies based on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2.
The news was shared by PlayStation Productions head Asad Qizilbash during Sony’s press conference at CES in Las Vegas late Monday. Both films are early in development and have no talent attached yet — at least not that Sony was willing to divulge.
Last year’s surprise smash hit Helldivers 2 is an online co-op shooter in which players assume the role of armored space commandos fighting hordes of bugs and robots. Any movie adaptation will have to contend with the huge and obvious debt its setting owes to Paul Verhoeven’s satirical action masterpiece from 1997, Starship Troopers. Qizilbash said that PlayStation Productions was working with Sony Pictures on the adaptation.
Horizon Zero Dawn, the open-world adventure game in which post-apocalyptic tribal hunter Aloy fights giant robot animals, sounds like it’s intended to be a major movie project. Qizilbash said PlayStation Productions was developing the film with Columbia Pictures — Sony Pictures’ flagship movie brand, which has already released movies based on Gran Turismo and Uncharted. “Just imagine Aloy’s beloved origin story, set in a vibrant far-future world filled with the giant machines, brought to you for the first time on the big screen,” Qizilbash teased.
PlayStation Productions was formed in 2019 with the intention of turning Sony’s game franchises into movies and TV shows, and it’s been pretty busy. As well as Gran Turismo and Uncharted, it has produced TV shows based on Twisted Metal and The Last of Us; the second season of the latter will premiere on HBO in April. A God of War show is being developed for Amazon Prime Video by Ronald D. Moore, Ghost of Tsushima has both a live-action movie and an anime spinoff in the works, there are reportedly Gravity Rush and Days Gone movies in development, and an Until Dawn movie will hit theaters in April.
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