Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares grew to become a legend amongst players for his tirade on the 2017 Game Awards. Extolling the virtues of Geoff Keighley’s annual extravaganza, he shouted into the digital camera—and I quote—”Fuck the Oscars! Fuck the Oscars! Fuck you!” His level, that the videogame business doesn’t have to content material itself with enjoying second fiddle to Hollywood, was affordable however largely misplaced beneath his suggestion that—and once more, I quote—”the Oscars ought to fuck themselves up.”
I deliver up this superb second in gaming historical past so we are able to all correctly admire that Hazelight’s hit co-op journey It Takes Two, which gained the Recreation of the 12 months crown on the 2021 Recreation Awards, is being tailored for motion pictures and tv. In keeping with Variety, Hazelight is engaged on the variations in partnership with manufacturing firm dj2 Leisure
“Creating the world and story in ‘It Takes Two’ was a lot enjoyable for me and the crew,” Fares stated. “Because it has a robust narrative with many loopy characters and simply as loopy co-op motion moments, the potential is big for an ideal adaption to movie or tv.”
“dj2 is honored to accomplice with Josef, Oskar [Hazelight studio manager Oskar Wolontis], and the unbelievable crew at Hazelight Studios on the linear media adaptation of It Takes Two,” dj2 CEO and founder Dmitri M. Johnson stated. “Similar to the remainder of the gaming world, we fell head-over-heels in love with Cody, Might, Rose, Dr. Hakim and the imaginative fantasy universe Hazelight have created, and may’t wait to deliver these characters—and this world—to life on the large and small display.”
It is amusing {that a} man who expressed such profane, excited disdain for a movie awards ceremony is now concerned in making a film, though in all equity I feel it is value noting once more that Fares’ challenge was actually with the videogame business, and never the movie business. It Takes Two looks as if a great choose for a linear narrative translation, too—I might in all probability discover 90 minutes of amusement within the antics of The Guide That Screams and his hapless victims, utterly shorn of gameplay.
All of that is nonetheless a method off from coming to fruition. Selection stated no studio or community was hooked up to the challenge when its report was revealed, however sources advised the positioning that a number of events are bidding on it. It Takes Two is considered one of many game-based initiatives dj2 has signed: It is also accomplished offers to make motion pictures and tv exhibits based mostly on Vampyr, My Friend Pedro, Life is Strange, We Happy Few, Disco Elysium, and most lately, the indie video games Sable, Night Call, and Mosaic.
