CBS Films Targets ‘Deus Ex’ Video Game For Feature
CBS Films has optioned screen rights to Deus Ex, the video game franchise from Square Enix. While vidgame film transfers don’t usually translate to big box office success, the Deus Ex franchise certainly has a following. Launched in 2000, its latest entry, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, topped global sales charts when it was released last year. Developed by Eidos-Montréal and published by Square Enix, Deus Ex: Human Revolution will serve as the primary template for the film. Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh are attached to produce and John P. Middleton will executive produce.
Set in the near future, when dramatic advances in science, specifically human augmentation, have triggered a technological renaissance, Deus Ex: Human Revolution follows Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT security specialist who must embrace mechanical augments in order to unravel a global conspiracy.
“As is clear from the wild success of the game, Square Enix and Eidos-Montréal know how to exceed their audience’s expectations by engineering incredible worlds,” CBS Films co-president Terry Press said. “No one knows Human Revolution like the team that created it and we look forward to working with them from day one to make a film adaptation worthy of the Deus Ex name.”
“As the millions of fans who have played the Deus Ex games for more than a decade will tell you, these games catapult you into a universe that is stimulating, engaging and relevant,” said Phil Rogers, president/CEO of Square Enix Europe. “We’re firm believers in building strong partnerships and so we’re thrilled to be working with CBS Films on bringing the unique Deus Ex experience to the big screen.” EVP Production Maria Faillace and Creative Executive Alex Ginno are overseeing the project for CBS Films.
Awesome, Hollywood continues to chase the gaming boys. Wake the (*(@*&# up. These guys are PRECISELY the guys who aren’t going to the movies. They are fickle and short attention-spanned and are only going to trash whatever movie you make online before you make it.
They would rather stay at home and play their first person shooter games and trash whatever movie you actually end up making online, and no one else wants to see a movie version of a first-person shooter game in the first place.
Just stop asking these guys to the prom over and over and over again, Hollywood. The gaming boys are just not that into you. Try making movies for people that actually WANT to go the movies.
DEUS EX is not a first person shooter….
Wow, troll often?
First of all, Hollywood doesn’t give a shit about catering to gamers, they’ve milked the comic book genre dry and are now forced to either reboot a series (Amazing Spiderman) or look into other mediums (video games). It’s a business.
Secondly, why are the people who like to play video games any dumber than the person who watches a tv? You’d think that they’d be more intelligent, but I’ll have to take your word that they are bumbling idiots, because who’s more credible than an ass on a comment section?
Lastly, gamers aren’t the only ones who complain about movies on the internet, you don’t seem to play any games and here you are complaining about Hollywood’s choices.
First off, Hollywood does indeed cater to gamers. They want this demographic desperately and they develop material all out of proportion to the size of the market. Exactly WHY they’re catering to gamers (because they’ve milked the comic books dry, as you imply) is beside the point, the point is they’re doing it.
Secondly, I have no idea if gamers are on the whole any dumber than any other hobbie-based slice of the population. I don’t care if they’re dumber or not, but they’re going to the movies less and less, at least in part because they’d rather stay home and play games. This does not make them dumb, it makes Hollywood dumb for chasing after their money.
Thirdly, correct, I never recall saying gamers are the ONLY people who trash movies online, but they do it. They do it more than other, under-served segments of the movie-going population (boomers, for instance).
But thanks for putting words in my mouth and making straw man arguments, I hope you feel better now.
Lets see, I have played all the Deus Ex games and I go to the movies several times a week with my other adult gamine friends, so your theory is void. I will take this genre of movies over the trash that the “regular” people seem to be going to like Transformers and the Sam Rami Spiderman series which were terrible.
Deus Ex is a classic of narrative-driven action gameplay, finally Hollywood picked the right game to turn into a movie.
Anyone who has played Deus Ex: Human Revolution knows that the story, world, characters, music and visuals create quite the unique cinematic world. I was just talking with a friend the other day saying this could be a video-game that could buck the trend of being absolute shit and change people’s perceptions on translating the medium to film. Here’s hoping the best for it!
CBS films isn’t known for quality. I’m much more excited about the fassbender produced assasins creed movie.
Yea, that is the one thing that worries me as well…
That was before Terry Press took over.
This might turn out well. Fingers crossed.
@HW Thanks for sterotyping all gamers as Call of Duty fanboys. If you knew anything about the Deus Ex franchise you would know that they are not the typical FPS games. They’re “immersive sims” with complex narratives and engaging human stories buoyed by real choice and consequence. If that is conveyed in a film then I can see this appealing to some sections of gamer culture and to the general public as well.
Please try to do some research before you post next time.
CBS Films has never spent more than $40 million making a film (and that was for a Jason Statham movie). Why in the hell would Square Enix give this property to an outfit that makes Lionsgate look like Warner Bros?!? I still don’t know why CBS films exists. Isn’t there another place where they make movies at Viacom. What’s it called again? Oh yeah. PARAMOUNT.
`seriously….. `who is running this studio and making these selections….
My biggest concern is wheather CBS is willing to adapt the series over as is and not rewrite them to “Make them better”. We all know how that turns out, badly.
Has Hollywood ever produced a megahit successful quality movie based on a video games? I remember first Resident Evil, Lara Croft and Mortal Kombat doing well but rest bombed or declined thereafter. Doom? Prince of Persia? Final Fantasy? Max Payne? Hit Man? Street Fighter? I can’t see this venture being successful.