I hate to spoil your Friday proper because the weekend is beginning, however I deliver some troubling information from the land of Hollyweird. It appears the inventive of us behind Cobra Kai, the Karate Child revival, have determined they need to make a film, a full-length movie, based mostly on the once-popular ‘90s first-person shooter character Duke Nukem. 2022 continues to be an odd 12 months.
The Hollywood Reporter is, uh…reporting that Legendary Leisure has licensed the Duke Nukem franchise’s movie rights from Gearbox and is now planning to make a brand new film with the character. In response to the outlet, this new challenge might be produced by Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg.
Jean-Julien Baronnet, who beforehand labored on the movie adaptation of Murderer’s Creed, can be producing through Marla Studios, an organization that makes a speciality of online game variations.
3D Realms (identified then as Apogee Software program) launched the primary recreation within the Duke Nukem sequence in 1991. Nevertheless, it wasn’t till 1996, with the launch of the critically acclaimed Duke Nukem 3D, that the franchise grew to become a family title. (Effectively, a minimum of amongst nerdy households.) A whole lot of that reputation is all the way down to how interactive Duke Nukem 3D was, stuffed with then-innovative touches like working mild switches, flushable bathrooms, and simulated mirrors. And certain, I assume some of us favored the principle character, Duke Nukem, even when all of his well-known catchphrases are simply stolen from fashionable film characters.
After 3D and a few expansions, the model went principally dormant till 2011 when the long-awaited follow-up, Duke Nukem Endlessly, lastly noticed launch. It sucked. And since then the way forward for Duke Nukem as a franchise has appeared…unlikely.
This isn’t the primary time a Duke Nukem movie has been in improvement. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Paramount was engaged on a Duke Nukem challenge starring John Cena for a number of years. Think about dwelling in that timeline. Whereas this challenge may additionally fail to occur, it stands a a lot better likelihood as Hollywood has change into way more taken with pumping out films and TV exhibits based mostly on well-known video video games.
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Gearbox, when reached, had no further remark.
No author or director has but been picked, or pressured at gunpoint, to affix the present challenge and produce life to Duke Nukem. Which means we nonetheless have time. We are able to cease this.
I believe there may be a option to make a humorous, presumably even “good,” Duke Nukem movie. It’d begin with him being a washed-up loser who had one massive second saving the world again within the ‘90s and has been driving out that little bit of fame for the previous 30 years. However to seek out out the remainder of that story you’ll want to rent me to put in writing a spec script.
