I hate to damage your Friday proper because the weekend is beginning, however I deliver some troubling information from the land of Hollyweird. It appears the artistic people behind Cobra Kai, the Karate Child revival, have determined they need to make a film, a full-length movie, primarily based 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 line with the outlet, this new undertaking can 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 by way of Marla Studios, an organization that makes a speciality of online game diversifications.
3D Realms (recognized then as Apogee Software program) launched the primary sport within the Duke Nukem sequence in 1991. Nonetheless, it wasn’t till 1996, with the launch of the critically acclaimed Duke Nukem 3D, that the franchise turned a family identify. (Nicely, not less than amongst nerdy households.) A number of that recognition is all the way down to how interactive Duke Nukem 3D was, stuffed with then-innovative touches like working gentle switches, flushable bogs, and simulated mirrors. And certain, I suppose some people favored the primary character, Duke Nukem, even when all of his well-known catchphrases are simply stolen from in style film characters.
After 3D and a few expansions, the model went largely dormant till 2011 when the long-awaited follow-up, Duke Nukem Ceaselessly, 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 growth. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Paramount was engaged on a Duke Nukem undertaking starring John Cena for a couple of years. Think about residing in that timeline. Whereas this undertaking might additionally fail to occur, it stands a significantly better likelihood as Hollywood has grow to be rather more focused on pumping out motion pictures and TV exhibits primarily based 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 compelled at gunpoint, to hitch the present undertaking and produce life to Duke Nukem. Meaning we nonetheless have time. We will cease this.
I feel there could be a strategy 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 write down a spec script.
