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Rampage Game Being Turned Into Film

Yes, you read that headline correctly. According to a report from the Hollywood Report, the classic monster arcade title Rampage is becoming a feature film.

John Rickard, who produced A Nightmare on Elm Street and Final Destination, is producing the film for New Line Cinema, and is reportedly meeting with writers to develop a story. Rampage was previously owned by Midway Games before Warner Bros. purchased the company in 2009.

"New Line isn’t usually in the tentpole business (the Lord of the Rings trilogy being the big exception) but the studio believes that technology has advanced enough that the possibility exists to make a smartly-budgeted monster movie in the vein and tone of Ghostbusters and Independence Day," the report states.

Those unfamiliar with Rampage should check out the Youtube clip below from the original 1986 arcade version.

Comments
  • YESYESYESYESYES I AM HAPPY.
  • uh
  • hmmm... i am curious to see how a game about monsters smashing building facades at regular intervals would translate into film. and the statement about it being "in the tone of Ghostbusters and Independence Day" is both inexplicable and frightening somehow.
  • Are you *** kidding me? Universal scrapped the Dark Tower series and something as stupid as this gets a green light??? (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
  • Let me guess Michael Bay will direct this masterpiece.
  • *shakes head

  • hollywood strikes again

  • Makes me wonder if this is going to be some random comedy blunder or maybe (just maybe) a relatively well put-together monster sleeper hit like Cloverfield, though I doubt it.
  • best news of the day. they should do it similar to a shaky cam cloverfield deal
  • Deep breath....sigh....That's really lame.

  • what i remeber plaing this on ps2 hahah now there going to make a show sweet
  • Not cool.

  • Hasn't it already been done? I mean wasn't this game ripped from King Kong, and Godzilla? Dragon Wars sucked, have they forgotten that?
  • why why why why why WHY!? WHY!? WHY!? This shouldnt even be allowed to become a movie!!!

  • Wow! They really must be running out of original ideas in the big, bad Hollywood. Someone stop these *** fools!
  • Oscar

  • Hopefully they realize how dumb this all is and go for the B-Movie route. Of all of the video game IPs to turn into a movie, why Rampage?
  • wow this is going to be a funny movie

  • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Next they're working on a tetris movie?
  • It had better be damned wacky, that is all I have to say!
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