Oh god yes I'm psyched already! However, just 10 years and it should be almost done... | |
HoHiHoHiHo...That made me laugh. | |
The film will probably be out sooner than Duke Nukem Forever | |
I think audiences will respond well to a macho, chauvinistic, Aryan, gun toting, drug using protagonist, don't you? I'm a fan of Duke, but come on, the only movie that could be made of this and stay true to the game would be highly offensive, or campy, or both. | |
Man, I wish they would release DNF just so people would stop telling the same jokes about it. Hobbes: Audiences will love it so much they'll elect him governor of California. | |
This is either going to be the greatest film in history or the new Meet the Spartans. | |
I wonder if the purchase of DN Forever will come with a buy-1-get-1-free coupon to see the film... | |
What will this be called then? Duke Nukem: Beyond time? : P | |
*yawn* Serious who gives a darn about Duke Nukem anymore? There are way better games and heroes out there. Serious Sam for one. | |
Lo Wang pwnz ALL! | |
as if that would'nt rock. | |
I dunno. I saw the trailer for Max Payne, and everything looked great until there were all the crazy flying bird men. I never beat the first Max Payne or played the second, but I remember a noir, not a crazy ass Constantine style film. So tell me, what the fuck's going on? | |
They'll probably rush the game to completion (or actually start working on it now), to coincide with a movie release. | |
What? Noooo! | |
It's probably a hallucination on the Valkyr drug or something or just a metaphore for how Max Payne's life is just a living hell. I don't know, but I'm still gonna go see it. | |
They're women actually. Valkyries. Says so in the trailer if ya listen to the yammering they do inbetween pose-shots. | |
They'll have to go through at least four different rendering engines first. | |
SQUEEEEEEEE!!! god this would be awesome... I would watch it just for the camp value | |
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Duke Nukem Coming To The Big Screen
Scott Faye, the producer on the oh-so-hot-looking Max Payne movie, has hooked up with 3D Realms to put together a Duke Nukem flick.
Faye has partnered with Scott Miller, founder and CEO of Apogee Software (better known as 3D Realms) to bring videogaming's most famous meathead to the big screen. "I'm working diligently at making a Duke Nukem movie scenario that will live up to the character and its import in the videogame world," he told Kotaku. "As is the case with all of my game adaptations, I'd rather not make the movie than make a poor adaptation."
Faye is still developing the story, he said, but he won't be shopping the film until everyone involved "feels solid" about the movie's direction. He added that Radar Group, Miller's "Game Industry 2.0" production company, will be part of "every aspect of the Duke Nukem process," and that he plans to remain faithful to the current Duke Nukem story. "We're expanding Duke's 'storyverse' in a very significant major way without abandoning or negating any element that's being used to introduce Duke to the next-gen platforms," he said.
"Why go out of your way to acquire an IP if you're not going to use as much of it as you can in the adaptation process?" Faye continued. "Of course, a game is a game and a film is a film, and decisions needs to be made, as is the case in any adaptation. But it's important to be true to the source material."
At this very early stage of the development process there's naturally not even speculation about when a Duke Nukem movie might hit the screens, but I'd still like to take a moment to be the first to congratulate Miller and everyone else at 3D Realms for their decision to make this movie. It takes real balls to dick around with a game's development for over ten years - an entire frikkin' decade - and then, while the thing still exists only as a faint hope in the imaginations of the most optimistic gamers, announce you're jumping into a movie project based on that same property. I salute you, sir; you have very possibly the biggest and brassiest of them all.
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