Having passed on a filmed version of Microsoft’s Halo, one of the most successful video game franchises ever, 20th Century Fox has reportedly acquired rights to a game that hasn’t even been produced yet. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio is developing a film based on Zero-G, sci-fi thriller titled in the works at game developer Union Ent.
Created by Daniel Jevons, the Zero-G game will have players take on the role of a New York City firefighter struggling to save the metropolis from terrorists wielding the ultimate weapon. The movie is being produced by Union’s Richard Leibowitz, Temple Hill Ent.’s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, and the Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein.
Gotham Group, which represents animation writers, directors, animators and animation studios, and is developing animated TV pilots for FOX, has been branching out into live-action with the recently released The Spiderwick Chronicles and Paramount Pictures’ upcoming adaptation of the Doug TenNapel graphic novel Monster Zoo.
Hollywood-based talent management and production company Union Ent. previously developed the 2007 game based on the Top Cow comic book The Darkness, and is working on a game based on Frank Miller’s Sin City graphic novels. For more information on the company and its titles, go to www.unionent.com.
