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 inventive 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 accordance with the outlet, this new mission will probably 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 variations.
3D Realms (identified then as Apogee Software program) launched the primary sport within the Duke Nukem collection 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 identify. (Nicely, no less than amongst nerdy households.) Quite a lot of that reputation is right down to how interactive Duke Nukem 3D was, filled with then-innovative touches like working gentle switches, flushable bogs, and simulated mirrors. And positive, I suppose some people appreciated the primary character, Duke Nukem, even when all of his well-known catchphrases are simply stolen from standard 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 growth. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Paramount was engaged on a Duke Nukem mission starring John Cena for just a few years. Think about residing in that timeline. Whereas this mission may additionally fail to occur, it stands a significantly better probability as Hollywood has change into far more eager about pumping out motion pictures and TV reveals 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 pressured at gunpoint, to hitch the present mission and convey life to Duke Nukem. Meaning we nonetheless have time. We will cease this.
I believe there is perhaps a strategy to make a humorous, probably even “good,” Duke Nukem movie. It’d begin with him being a washed-up loser who had one huge 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 search out out the remainder of that story you’ll want to rent me to put in writing a spec script.
