A movie adaptation of mystery-adventure online game franchise “Broken Sword” is being developed by recreation maker Revolution Software program, producer Story Kitchen and Disney’s live-action “Beauty and the Beast” screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos.
Created by Charles Cecil, the “Broken Sword” sequence debuted in 1996 with “The Shadow of the Templars.” The franchise follows intrepid American George Stobbart and fearless French journalist Nicole Collard as they navigate ecclesiastical conspiracy all through iconic European settings.
Throughout 5 titles launched over the previous 30 years, the “Broken Sword” video games have been performed by greater than 10 million gamers and is credited as a foundational title for modern-day narrative-driven gaming. Just lately, Cecil’s Revolution Software program concluded a profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign for the most recent “Broken Sword” remake undertaking, “Smoking Mirror Reforged,” which raised practically $1 million towards a $68,000 objective.
The “Broken Sword” film will probably be written by Spiliotopoulos, whose different writing credit embrace “The Unholy,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” and “G.I. Joe” film “Snake Eyes.”
Story Kitchen, which is engaged on a number of high-profile TV and movie diversifications of video video games, together with the brand new “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie franchise and Amazon’s upcoming “Life Is Strange” sequence, will produce the movie alongside Revolution’s Cecil and his companion, Noirin Carmody.
“Very few franchises of this era have stayed relevant, premium, and loyal to the intelligence of their audience. ‘Broken Sword’ has done all three,” Story Kitchen co-founders Dmitri M. Johnson and Michael Lawrence Goldberg stated in a joint assertion Tuesday. “Our work here isn’t to adapt a game into a film. It’s to move a world that has been building for three decades into the next medium it deserves, working hand-in-hand with the people who built it.”
“Story Kitchen came to this project with a deep passion for the IP,” Revolution Software program founder and CEO Charles Cecil added. “That’s rare. The creative conversations have been about translating what ‘Broken Sword’ is, rather than what it can be made to look like. I am hugely excited to be working with Story Kitchen and Evan.”
