Fede Alvarez Directing Board Game Adaptation Monsterpocalypse
John Squires
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A feature film adaptation of the board game Monsterpocalypse has been in development for several years now, with Tim Burton once attached, but it’s been quite some time since we’ve heard any updates. As it turns out, similarities to Pacific Rim stalled the development, but thankfully didn’t kill the project. Read on!
THR reports that Warner Bros. has won a heated bidding war for the rights to the cult board game, and they’ve attached Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead) to co-write and direct. Dreamworks and Sony had also been bidding on the rights, which hit at least the mid-six figures against seven figures.
Alvarez will pen the screenplay with his writing partner Rodo Sayagues.
Monsterpocalypse is a board game from Privateer Press that pits humans in robot suits against monsters.
The site says that the new package has a take that is substantially different from that of the previous iteration, as well as Pacific Rim‘s, although the core concept — humans versus monsters — remains.
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