The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Legendary Entertainment is developing a movie based on 3D Realms’ classic first-person shooter franchise, Duke Nukem. Legendary will be producing the film alongside Counterbalance Entertainment’s Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg, the trio behind Cobra Kai, the martial arts comedy-drama and follow-up to the Karate Kid films. Duke Nukem’s movie rights were picked up from Gearbox Software, which acquired the rights to the franchise over a decade ago in 2010, the same year that development on Duke Nukem Forever finally completed. A writer and director hasn’t been found for the project yet, but one of the Counterbalance team may take up directorial duties.
Launched with a self-titled debut in 1991 from Apogee Software, later called 3D Realms, Nukem is $1 billion video game franchise that began life as a platform game for personal computers. When the third game, Duke Nukem 3D, came out in 1996, it became not only a critical hit but one that helped usher in the ubiquity of first-person games for years to come. After laying low for years and stalled development, the franchise came back in 2011, after Gearbox acquired 3D Realms, with Duke Nukem Forever.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Discussion (2 replies)
Join Discussion →Why don't they invite Uwe Boll to collaborate with them while they are at it?
I don't see how this could turn out to be anything but bad.
Duke Nukem 3D had it's time and it's place in the 90's, and that is probably where it should stay, judging by how that follow up game turned out ...
I just picked up Bulletstorm on Steam that waqs on sale (Under $9) with some sort of Duke Nukem edition. I can honestly say his voice acting and overall character needs to stay in the past. I loved the games back then, but it didn't age well IMO.