IGN is reporting that Christophe Gans, who directed the 2006 video game-based horror/thriller movie Silent Hill, has been attached to another video game-based movie–Onimusha. Gans will direct the film for production company Davis Films, who was also behind Silent Hill and Gans’ Brotherhood of the Wolf.
Onimusha will have a budget of $70 million and it’s currently being shopped around to film studios. Filming is set to begin in China next February for a December 2009 release.
ComingSoon is reporting that popular adventure game series Broken Sword will be turned into a movie sometime in the future. The game’s creator, Charles Cecil, and his development company Revolution Software is, "teaming with a Hollywood production company to transform his adventure games into live action films."
The story is being kept under wraps now but the film was green-lighted with the recent success of Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death, which was released in September 2006.
