I can honestly say that Wolfenstein 3d was the first shooter game I ever played on PC, and this was rapidly replaced by the likes of Doom and Heretic. I never got into the upgraded sequel Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Well we learned that Samuel Hadida will produce with Roger Avary writing and directing so this thing is happening, but why the big delay?
id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead told Eurogamer that the project is still in development, saying that “with the writer’s strike it took so long to get underway and Roger Avary, the writer, had a commitment that was in line before working the Wolfenstein stuff, but I’ve recently been in contact with Roger and he’s actually working on the script right now.”
But how can this really be a bad flick. This has the makings of B Movie action and gore with such a silly concept as trying to make Nazis look worse because they now find out they have a paranormal division that is making demon super soldiers. Before that Nazis were just misunderstood emos. Now they have DEMONS!!
But it is a video game adaptation, so when they claim the writers strike held up production my knee jerk reaction was “A video game movie needs writers?” But alas it is true. All movies need writers. I just always hope that the next video game movie will actually deserve writers and be good, and like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin, I am repeatedly disappointed.
I think this got delayed because there are dozens of other video game properties that are still being published and released that they would like to exploit on the big screen.
