From Movies, To Games, Back To Movies: Epic Games May Have Plans For A Fortnite Battle Royale Film

Right here’s a enjoyable one for Fortnite followers. You could finally get so see your favourite universe on the massive display screen. Based on a report on PC Gamer, Epic Video games is teaming up with former Lucasfilm executives to deliver the sport to movie. (Okay, properly, the information initially dropped on The Info, however there’s a paywall there so our reporting relies on PC Gamer’s report.)

It appears the transfer could also be a little bit of a response to the battle with Apple and Apple’s refusal to let them back onto the App Store platform – that means a whole lot of Fortnite gamers have been neglected within the chilly indefinitely. Whether or not or not that is the reasoning, the result’s apparently a transfer into “scripted video content material”. This appears to gel with the truth that Epic employed three former Lucasfilm execs earlier within the 12 months, together with former VP of Bodily Manufacturing Jason McGatlin. What’s the purpose in hiring filmmakers in the event you don’t intend to make movies?

After all, nothing right here is for sure and there are different issues Epic might make that match the “scripted video content material” description, equivalent to brief movies.

One query some may ask is that if Fortnite can actually be translated to movie as the larger focus of the sport is the world and the gamers reasonably than particular NPCs which appear to come back and go along with seasons and occasions. That mentioned, the sport does have a whole lot of lore due to the way it features, and it won’t be too exhausting to take a season and make a film or brief collection out of it. However we’ll simply have to attend to search out out.