A TV adaptation of online game franchise “Wolfenstein” is within the works at Amazon MGM Studios.
The sequence, introduced Friday, shall be government produced by Kilter Movies’ Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Pleasure and Athena Wickham, creator and author Patrick Somerville through his chaoticgood.television manufacturing banner, Keyframe Movies’ James Altman of Keyframe Movies and MachineGames’ Jerk Gustafsson.
Plot particulars for the sequence stay beneath wraps, although the logline states: “The story of killing Nazis is evergreen.”
The “Wolfenstein” online game franchise facilities on U.S. World Conflict II solider William “B.J.” Blazkowicz, who goes behind enemy strains to struggle the Nazis and discovers their makes an attempt to harness supernatural and occult forces to win the battle.
The primary recreation, “Fortress Wolfenstein,” was launched in 1981, and was subsequently adopted up by 1984’s “Past Fortress Wolfenstein.” The franchise would shift to first-person shooters with “Wolfenstein 3D” in 1992. In complete, there have been 14 video games, together with the latest digital actuality recreation “Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot.” The video games are presently developed by MachineGames and printed by Bethesda Softworks.
A movie adaptation of the franchise was beforehand introduced in 2012, although it by no means ended up shifting ahead.
“Wolfenstein” marks the most recent online game adaptation within the works at Amazon, following Prime Video’s “Fallout,” which has already been renewed for a 3rd season, in addition to “Mass Impact,” and “God of Conflict.” Amazon can be adapting the table-top recreation “Warhammer 40,000” right into a sequence led by Henry Cavill.
It additionally marks the most recent collaboration with Kilter following “Fallout” and a TV adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ “Fourth Wing” with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society.
Somerville’s earlier credit embrace Netflix’s “Maniac” and HBO’s “Station Eleven” and “The Leftovers.” He additionally was a author on “The Bridge” and “24: Dwell One other Day.” Moreover, he printed the books “The Cradle” and “The Shiny River” and brief story collections “The Universe in Miniature in Miniature” and “Bother.”
Kilter Movies is repped by WME, whereas Somerville is repped by WME and Artists First.
