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EA Wants A Need For Speed Movie

Publisher Electronic Arts is hoping to cash in on the popularity of the "Fast and the Furious" films.

According to a Variety report, EA hired producer John Gatins and writer George Gatins to create a pitch for the movie to shop around Hollywood. According to the report, Warner Bros., Sony, and Paramount are said to be interested with Paramount being the current front-runner.

EA last released Need for Speed: The Run in November, which sold 700,000 copies in its first month in the U.S. alone.

Game Informer has contacted the publisher for comment on this report.

[Source: Variety]

Comments
  • EA is so being EA

    and by the way there is something like this already out there its called "fast and furious"

    Edit: bound epic fail

    Micheal Bay gonna love this
  • Pro-tip: Don't higher Uwe Bowl.
  • No. Just no.
  • Fast & Furious looks like it will be good in the upcoming years. I think they've confirmed the next two films or they wanted to film the back to back to save production costs. But that couldn't happen. Though does hint that there will probs be two movies. And with The Rock in the both of them? More stability to the franchise and a name for people to see to reel people into the cinema. Need for Speed just won't be able to compete unless it get's a really big star. Fast and Furious don't need big stars yet they're famous and good.
  • The director is guess who Micheal Bay
  • There is already Fast and Furious we don't need a Need For Speed movie. There are too many movie clones out there. If Hollywood does make this then it really does prove that they are out of ideas.
  • Fast and the Furious. There.

  • i thought it had one? it was called fast and the furious

  • Well nobody else does so piss off.

  • I'm reminded of the phrase "Strike while the iron is hot." Maybe they should have done something when those Fast & Furious movies were popular.
  • Crap and Furious.

  • NO. NO, NO, NO, NO NONONONO NOOOOOOOOOOO. NO NONNONNONONONONOONONOONONO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • If there was a Need for Speed movie, then Vin Diesel would star in it, there would be terrible acting, a lot of hot babes who do nothing, gunfire, explosions, yeah, it would be Need for Fast and Furious. Do they WANT to kill a series off?
  • Incorrect

  • Well, it WOULD be marginally better than Battleship: The Movie.
  • Do we really need a Fast and Furious rip off?
  • There's going to be more than one of those movies just so they can make the Need Nine alliteration.
  • Can EA get Paul Walker and Vinny Diesel ?? That would be awesome,,,, and have it nothing closely related to Fast and Furious ... but make joke references to the movies so there making fun of racing movies but in a way where if you watch it once you wouldn't get the joke , but if you watched the movie more than once that would be the joke.....hahah

    do i hear Oscar Nominee.... LOL
  • How would this be any different from every other racing movie ever? Its not even like Need for Speed has its own unique story. Its just cars racing for some paper thin reason, shopping this around as a movie as silly as making a movie from the Dead Island trailer.

  • I thought NFS: Most Wanted WAS a movie! I mean, wasn't it nominated for, like, Emmy's or Tony's, right?
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