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Roger Avary Still At Work On Wolfenstein Script
Posted by Luke Plunkett at 1:15 PM on August 4, 2008
Don't go expecting that Wolfenstein movie adaptation any time soon. A combination of the writer's strike and his own workload (plus, uh, some other stuff) means Roger Avary is still working on the movie's script. And with nobody else having seen it, it's to be presumed he's only just started it. Bummer. While id's Todd Hollenshead revealed to Eurogamer that the movie deal includes some "contract provisions", stating Avary can't just sit on the property forever, he also admits that it's not every day you get a chance to have an Academy Award winner write your movie. Not every day an Academy Award winner gets to write a movie about nazis, zombies and a mechanised Adolf Hitler, either.
Avary writing Wolf movie "right now" [Eurogamer]
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D Mitsuki
Posted 7:43 PM 4/8/08
Does this game REALLY warrant a movie release? I mean c'mon its like me announcing a Pong movie. It's just not that deep a game.
D Mitsuki
atreides
Posted 8:14 PM 4/8/08
Robot Hitler is not pleased.
atreides
mrselfdestructuk
Posted 9:18 PM 4/8/08
i wish he would just get on with it so he can fix the wrongs in the silent hill movie or start on silent hill 2
mrselfdestructuk
Rajolae
Posted 9:41 PM 4/8/08
@D Mitsuki: Ive got the feeling you're about to be on the recieving end of some hate.
Rajolae
velvet396
Posted 10:11 PM 4/8/08
is that the head of hitler being kept alive by a robot suit with guns for arms?
velvet396
WittyUserName
Posted 10:29 PM 4/8/08
@atreides: If Robo Hitler's happy, EA hasn't made enough WWII games.
WittyUserName
RStormgull
Posted 12:02 AM 5/8/08
@velvet396: Clearly you never played Wolfenstein 3D! That's just a mechanical suit that Hitler is in. Like a 1940's Iron Man... except evil.
Now that you mention it though, it looks exactly like those jars with the heads in them in Futurama.
RStormgull
Rondogg
Posted 1:11 AM 5/8/08
Ah yes, I remember the Episods of old school Wolfenstein.
I heard about it by seeing it on display at Egghead Software (old school).
It was like $5 Shareware. Those were the days...
Rondogg
sir_carrot
Posted 2:59 AM 5/8/08
Oh, Avary. I thought he'd be the savior of gaming movies with Silent Hill.
But that script... oi... why Avary, why?
sir_carrot
Placentasaurus
Posted 2:23 PM 5/8/08
Roger Avary has no business being a scriptwriter. For fuck's sake, he refused to play any of the Silent Hill games before he wrote the script for the movie based on them. I bet he doesn't even know there was a Robo-Hitler in Wolfenstein 3D. I don't care if he won academy awards, any talent he may have once had is gone.
Placentasaurus