Days Gone movie in the works, the game sold 9M

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"In the wake of Sony minting the start of a cinematic franchise in its big screen take of PlayStation game, Uncharted, which made close to $402M WW, we hear the movie division of its videogame arm, Sony PlayStation Productions, is developing the feature rendition of Days Gone, which Outlander‘s Sam Heughan is circling and Oscar nominated scribe Sheldon Turner is adapting.

The Bend Studios -related game, which has sold 9M units
, is set in the Pacific Northwest after a devastating global pandemic. The game chronicles former motorcycle club member, Deacon St. John, as he fights to survive against the forces of despair and mutated, predatory humans in his quest to find the long lost, presumed dead, love of his life. Heughan will play Deacon St. John. I hear Turner’s script will be a love ballad to motorcycle movies; the bike being Deacon’s sole form of transportation, his horse in this would-be, modern-day western.

Jennifer Klein and Turner are producing through their production company, Vendetta Productions. Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan are producing for Sony PlayStation Productions.

Turner shared a Golden Globe screenplay win with Jason Reitman and an Adapted Screenplay Oscar nom for Up in the Air. He has a story by on X-Men: First Class, and wrote Doug Liman’s upcoming Everest, which Klein is also producing. Turner just did a rewrite on Liman’s Road House starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor for Prime Video. Paramount Players recently bought the original pitch Man of War from Turner and Klein. Vendetta is repped by Kevin Marks at Gang Tyre Ramer.

Scottish actor Heughan stars as Jamie Fraser on Starz’s Outlander. He is cast in the upcoming Liman Everest movie and Jim Strouse’s It’s All Coming Back to Me. Heughan’s feature credits include the Kate McKinnon-Mila Kunis comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me and Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot. He is repped by UTA."



This is Sam Heughan, who would play Deacon. Nice to see he isn't a non-binary black lesbian and dying his hair he could look like pretty similar to Deacon, no woke tokenism this time:
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Can’t wait to hear what john Garvin has to say about this lol….
I assume he'll be happy for it and proud. He often tweets about his current game and about past ones, specially Days Gone.

So I assume that later today he'll tweet about this movie.
 
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Even if he doesn’t get the write the screenplay or be involved with it? He treats Days Gone like his own child, i see him reacting to this the way Jaffe did about the new Twisted Metal game
He's a game director, not a movie screenwriter. And he no longer works for the company that owns the IP and employs the other over a thousand people who worked in the game.

I don't see why he would expect to write the screenplay of a movie adaptation. But who knows, they may contact him if the Bend studio manager (from inside Bend, not from other parts of PS Studios/SIE/SIEA) who blocked the sequel and fired him or made him want to leave doesn't block it.
 
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He's a game director, not a movie screenwriter. And he no longer works for the company that owns the IP and employs the other over a thousand people who worked in the game.

I don't see why he would expect to write the screenplay of a movie adaptation. But who knows, they may contact him if the Bend Studio manager who blocked the sequel and fired him or made him want to leave doesn't block it.

Maybe no write the screen play but its typical for the game writers/directors to be brought on as consultants
 

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Pretty informative but:

Nice to see he isn't a non-binary black lesbian and dying his hair he could look like pretty similar to Deacon, no woke tokenism this time:

Think you can not do so much of this please? Safe to say the movie isn't going to make some far-out weird decisions so I don't see a point in letting this fear live rent-free in the head but maybe that's just me 🤷‍♂️
 

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Man, these Sony shows and movies really need to be AAA so as not to backfire smearing the franchises. Last of Us is in good hands with the production pedigree, but everything needs to be.
 

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Wow 9 milions for this mess of a game!! I guess as long as you make the protagonist an angry white male, open world and zombies people will eat that shit up.
 
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Unfuckingbelievable!!!

Sony green lights a movie to a dead franchise but I can't get what was my most anticipated sequel coming into the PS5 generation??? Fucking bullshit right there. UGH. :mad:
 

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Another zombie apocalypse movie? This has every chance of being as generic as Uncharted was.
 

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Yeah the 9 milli thing aint some confirmed thing.
yea I was just about to say, we need some confirmation on that lol

Granted I'm sure it will actually reach that over time, simply I don't believe its sold that just yet or Sony would just announce it now or something. Maybe it did and Sony is planning to reveal its numbers when a sequel is revealed or something later on. Who knows. I do know they like to make announcements around other announcements in terms of those figures, but I'd feel a reveal or trailer of this film would be a good time.
 
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Unfuckingbelievable!!!

Sony green lights a movie to a dead franchise but I can't get what was my most anticipated sequel coming into the PS5 generation??? Fucking bullshit right there. UGH. :mad:

Well it's a good thing the Sony Pictures side of Sony liked the IP, if this story is even real.. it only increases the chance of more Days Gone games in the future.

Why I'm happy for the rumor... I don't really get excited about video-game movies tho lol I'm all for good movies and this could be good but it'll be good if the people making it are good... and it would be good w/ a generic zombie premise as well then.

Most zombie film/tv is fucking terrible tho lol
 
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Unfuckingbelievable!!!

Sony green lights a movie to a dead franchise but I can't get what was my most anticipated sequel coming into the PS5 generation??? Fucking bullshit right there. UGH. :mad:

Jeff Ross said it was Bend management who didn’t want to make another one. Sony probably would have greenlit it if they pitched it. I dont think sony shuts down a lot of projects studios want to do unless theres some larger reason, like maybe it would conflict with other plans they have.


Kinda wish someone would do a proper write up on this so we stop getting people whining about how sony didn’t green light the game or secretly hates it because it didn’t score a 90mc or sell 10m copies.

I saw someone today say it was cancelled after they started production because of change of management at sony lol
 
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