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‘Chronicle’ Director Josh Trank To Helm ‘Shadow of the Colossus’ Adaptation

Rob Keyes — Thu, 24 May 2012 02:34:52 +0000

Despite the unraveling of what was going to be a very strange (read: unwanted) adaptation of the Uncharted video games, Sony Pictures is continuing to push the genre forward through developing several other brands for the live-action treatment. Sony signed with Ubisoft Motion Pictures to develop the Assassin’s Creed film in a deal that didn’t sit well with rival studios and as we learned today, they’re still planning a live-action feature film based on Team Ico’s Shadow of the Colossus.

Deadline has the update on the latest important video game title that’s entering development, a place where countless projects still sit as the video game movie genre remains in an uneasy place, unproven but ripe for emergence. Sony aims to make Shadow of the Colossus a large-scale blockbuster with the help of producer Kevin Misher (Mirror Mirror) and have signed Josh Trank (Chronicle) to direct. Back in 2009, Sony had hired Justin Marks (Street ...

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Sony Is Stepping Into ‘The Shadow Of The Colossus’

Rob Keyes — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:52:04 +0000

[Update: Josh Tranks (Chronicle) will be directing Shadow of the Colossus]

If you’ve played Shadow of the Colossus, the cinematic Playstation 2 game, you know that this was going to be a feature film some day. That day has come.

Sony has announced that the video game property is officially being developed by the studio into a big budget film. Is this simply another video game adaptation in line to be ruined by filmmakers?

What we know so far is that it will be produced by Kevin Misher (The Interpreter, Public Enemies) and that it’ll be written by Justin Marks, the writer of this year’s smash hit, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

Uh oh…

The problem with this adaptation is that there’s not much to the story and there’s certainly very little ...

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