It’s been put together by an outfit called Transvision, and as you’ll see in the clip below, is doing a pretty good job of capturing the whole “sad men with guns hanging out in a desolate wasteland” thing the game series does so well.
STALKER developers GSC Game World tell Kotaku production of the pilot episode (from which all the footage in the preview clip below has been taken) has been entirely self-funded by the studio. Negotiations are currently underway with Russian and Ukrainian TV networks for a series deal, which if successful would see the show broadcast across the markets of the former Soviet Union. And if it’s successful there? GSC say “we are interested in licensing the distribution rights to other territories, such as Western Europe, North America etc”.
So we’ve got a TV show based on a game that was based on a 1979 movie which was based on a 1971 book. What’s next? A musical?
[translation via YouTube]
Leper
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 9:49 AMIf the series does actually do well in Russia and the Ukraine, expect an American studio to buy the rights to remake it. And then completely screw it up.
j-man
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 10:17 AMtook the words right out of my mouth, its almost a guarantee
Courtney Cullen
Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 12:51 PMDammit. Why is this based on the game rather than the book? Roadside Picnic is a much better story, and I thought the book was much more successful in Russia.