Deadline reviews that Amazon has signed a first-look deal with dj2 Entertainment, the corporate that co-produced the Sonic the Hedgehog film, to supply streaming diversifications of videogames for Prime TV.
This information comes lower than a month after Hazelight studios revealed that it was collaborating with dj2 on a potential adaptation of It Takes Two.
Dj2’s founder, Dmitri M. Johnson, mentioned of the deal: “…it’s actually an honor to have Prime Video as our platform associate. A associate who actually helps us, in addition to our grand ambitions, for telling the most effective worldwide gaming tales with no limitations in how excessive we could collectively intention.”
Dj2 is at present within the early phases of adapting Life is Unusual and PC Gamer’s 2019 Game of the Year, Disco Elysium. This new deal leaves Amazon with first dibs if these initiatives attain completion.
Videogame diversifications was once a punchline, but it surely looks as if we’re coming into a bonanza period for cinematic spin-offs. Netflix’s Witcher sequence, whereas technically an adaptation of Sapkowski’s books, continues to be closely related to CD Projekt’s opus and may need one thing to do with the latest increase.
I raised an eyebrow on the prospect of a Disco Elysium present airing on Prime TV for a bunch of causes, however particularly the truth that a militant labor dispute varieties the backdrop of the sport’s plot, and Amazon has a nicely documented history of poor working conditions at its warehouses and suppressing union activity. I discover it onerous to think about the vibe not being off with such a challenge, is what I am making an attempt to say.
My cynicism could also be unwarranted and we might see some shock hits just like the Netflix Witcher from all these first-look offers and deliberate diversifications, however I discover it onerous to flee the sensation that there positive are so much of those getting introduced. Netflix is making Far Cry and Murderer’s Creed reveals and a BioShock film, and Amazon can also be making an attempt to get a Mass Impact adaptation made. This, coupled with the continued fracturing and proliferation of latest streaming providers, looks as if a little bit of a bubble. However hey, who am I to say that the nice instances ever have to finish?
