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Bruckheimer is plotting a civil war at Disney, tapping J. Michael Straczynski to adapt 2K Games' "Shattered Union." (http://bit.ly/3vYh3b) 29 days ago |
Bruckheimer wants a Shattered Union
Total Film News —
Aiming to keep the Bruckheimer pipeline pumping movies into its schedule, Disney has commissioned his company to adapt post-apocalyptic video game Shattered Union. Changeling's writer J Michael Straczynski is the man they've tapped to figure out the script, which will roughly follow the game's plot of an America stunned after Washington DC is destroyed in a nuclear attack. In the resulting chaos, several states secede from the US and create their own governments, which then go to war against other rebel organizations. Players in the game get to take control of one of the rogue states, including the ...
Straczynski Adapts "Shattered Union"
Dark Horizons - News —
J. Michael Straczynski ("Changeling," "Ninja Assassin") will adapt the 2005 war strategy video game "Shattered Union" into a feature film for Disney Pictures says Variety.
Set against the backdrop of a new civil war after Washington D.C. is wiped out in a nuclear blast, the various states have seceded into six warring groups and players get to play one of them or a European peacekeeping unit sent to reunify America.
Jerry Bruckheimer is set to produce. Straczynski also has Vietnam War drama "They Marched Into Sunlight" in pre-production at Universal.
Straczynski adapting videogame
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... send in a peacekeeping force too. In the game you can play the California Commonwealth, the Republic of Texas or the New England Alliance, and battle to try and gain control of the entire country. The game is actually a turn based strategy game, however that makes little difference to the film as it will be taking the idea and concept and developing a film out of it, perhaps looking at some of the cut scenes and story developments too for inspiration. It's an interesting story from Variety through ...
Jerry Bruckheimer Literally Planning To Destroy America
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... for movies, Shattered Union has a concept that actually sounds like something I'd want to see on the screen. It takes place in a United States where multiple civil wars have broken out, Washington, D.C. has been wiped out by a nuclear bomb, and the Europeans are stepping in to demand we get our act together. Not bad, right? Jerry Bruckheimer, the king of putting disasters onscreen, agrees with me too. He's picked J. Michael Straczynski to adapt the game for Disney, according to Variety . Straczynski has one of the more varied screenwriting careers out there, having both ...
J. Michael Straczynski Penning Strategy Video Game Adaptation Shattered Union, Still on Silver Surfer and Paul Greengrass Project
/Film —
The game Shattered Union only came out in 2005, but I doubt too many people remember it. The PC and Xbox turn-based strategy title speculated on a political future in which the US sees states seceding from the Union after the second-term retention of the most unpopular president in the nation’s history. Now Jerry Bruckheimer is setting a film version up at Disney, and has tapped J. Michael Straczynski to write.
If the film can go into production relatively quickly, it’ll be the action film for the right wing, as it depicts an unpopular ...
J. Michael Straczynski Penning Video Game Adaptation Shattered Union, Still on Paul Greengrass Project
/Film —
UPDATE: Since publishing this, /Film reader Eneko Ruiz pointed me to Straczynski’s own site, where an email he reprints (from Oct 24) suggests that he’s not actively working on Silver Surfer. JMS writes: “My guess is that since my draft was closely tied into FF2, which is ancient now, they’ve struck off in a different direction.” Original article follows.
The game Shattered Union only came out in 2005, but I doubt too many people remember it. The PC and Xbox turn-based strategy title speculated on a political future in which the US ...
Bruckheimer to Adapt 'Shattered Union' Video Game
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Now how's this for a cool premise? "U.S. states secede from the U.S. and form their own governments that wage a civil war against each other after Washington, D.C., is wiped out in a nuclear blast and chaos ravages the nation." Sounds like it could make for a fairly novel action flick, eh? Well, as Variety ...
Bruckheimer & J. Michael Straczynski Coming Together For SHATTERED UNION!!
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Merrick here... Jerry Bruckheimer and J. Michael Straczynski (BABYLON 5, CHANGELING) are allying to bring SHATTERED UNION to the big screen. It's based on a 2K game which is available HERE [image] . In the game, states secede from the U.S. and form their own governments that wage a civil war against each other after Washington, D.C., is wiped out in a nuclear blast and chaos ravages the nation. Players control one of the warring group of states -- the California Commonwealth, Republic of Texas and New England Alliance are three of the six -- or a European peacekeeping unit sent to reunify America. ...explains THIS piece in Variety. ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI PLOTS THE UPCOMING CIVIL WAR
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... Sunday. We're in a country that feels like it is ramping up towards violence, violence stoked by ignorance, hate and a GOP more concerned with keeping a base of power than serving the country. So that means the video game Shattered Union , which is about a new American Civil War after an unpopular president is elected to a second term, is looking more and more like prognostication and less and less like science fiction. I'm not familiar with the game, which was released in 2005, but Variety fills in the deetz: In the game, states secede from the U.S. and form their own ...
