Yes, the news is that after the poor performance of Doom, there seems to be a strengthened resolve to produce the movie Wolfenstein from the company iD Software.
From Twitch Guru through Dark Horizons the CEO of the company Todd Hollenshead speaks.
“Our next order of business is to try to get Wolfenstein made into a movie; I think it could make a very interesting film. The game design for Return to Castle Wolfenstein is basically set up as a film script…It will probably have a little more similarity in terms of the direction of the movie script to the upcoming game.
That was a challenge for the Doom movie, because the license was based on what people already knew and had seen. Some of the things we’re looking for is actively soliciting a Hollywood trained writer to help us out with the story and the dialog on the game. It would be cool if that person could potentially be used as a writer or a consultant to whoever writes the movie, if that were to come to pass”.
So perhaps there is a bit of learning going on here, although to me it really does seem as though Todd has his head screwed on. He knew Doom had to be faithful to the game and he’s implying that they didn’t have much scope with that. However, with Wolfenstein they are going to create the movie script through the game and onto a film. Now I think that is the way to do it.
