Topic: Eternal Darkness the Movie Official

[NewsBot]

Now that Nintendo has released a press release, it's official.  The movie should come out on March 33 for the full effect.

HYPNOTIC SECURES EXCLUSIVE FEATURE FILM AND TELEVISION RIGHTS FOR NINTENDO GAME ETERNAL DARKNESS: SANITY'S REQUIEM

Companies Collaborate to Take Popular Brand to Television and Film

LOS ANGELES – (June 27, 2003) - Nintendo of America Inc. and Hypnotic, a New York and Los Angeles-based branded entertainment company, will collaborate to bring Nintendo's popular "Eternal DarknessTM: Sanity's Requiem" video game title to new heights through the development of motion picture and television projects. Hypnotic will spearhead all TV and film development, financing, production and distribution rights for the property, from hiring the writers to brokering studio commitments and distribution deals.

Hypnotic understands the power of the Eternal Darkness brand as it produced the successful Eternal Darkness Filmmaking Competition, in 2001 and 2002, to promote the release of the game. Hypnotic chairman, Liz Hamburg, has worked with Nintendo throughout her career and brings her deep understanding of the entertainment and gaming industries to the table to help propel the brand into the filmed entertainment space.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, gaming's first true psychological thriller, received the 'Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story' award at the 2003 Interactive Achievement Awards, the Oscars® of the video-game community. "The characters in this game are extremely complex and story is truly dynamic," says Gail Tilden, vice president, Brand Management, Nintendo of America, Inc. "We're looking forward to working hand-in-hand with Hypnotic to bring this exciting and innovative entertainment property to an even broader audience."  

"We are thrilled to once again work with Nintendo to extend this brand and its powerful story to the masses," says David Bartis, CEO, Hypnotic. "We are eager to get the project started and to leverage our relationships in both the entertainment and marketing worlds to propel Eternal Darkness onto yet another entertainment platform."  

Hypnotic's current projects include the development of their latest television series, "The O.C." to air on FOX, the Terry Tate, Office Linebacker original film series and commercials for Reebok, The Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival, Toyota's Scion Screening Series, and numerous development deals leveraging its talent pool and immense short film library.  

Chairman Liz Hamburg and in-house producer Steven Hein spearheaded the deal. Gail Tilden helmed the negotiation for Nintendo.

[SuperLink666]

Is Denis Dyack going to over see the project at all or will it be all of the Hollywood writers?

Also will the movie be in theatres and have a big budget or will it just be a DVD release to certain retailers, etc?

No matter, I will still buy it to support my favourite developer and company

[Fammy2000]

At least this will drum up interest in the game again and sell a few more copies. I wonder if a sequel will be released around the same time. Hmmm...

[Grey Ninja]

Oi...  This doesn't sound good.  The film-maker's track record is mainly television commercials...  I am starting to have some serious doubts about the quality of the work that's going to come out of there.

But I will rush out and buy it regardless of whether it's good or bad.

[dafunkk12]

While I'm sure fans would appreciate posters proclaiming 3:33, I'm sure mainstream America will either be uber-confused or the teens will declare it lame.  I know I was stuck thinking about that whole March 33 thing for a few minutes before it clicked.

[vudu]

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While I'm sure fans would appreciate posters proclaiming 3:33, I'm sure mainstream America will either be uber-confused or the teens will declare it lame. I know I was stuck thinking about that whole March 33 thing for a few minutes before it clicked.

i'm still confused.  i beat the game about 6 months ago, but i must have forgotten what the 3:33 thing is.  does it have something to do with the 3 uber-baddies?

[vudu]

sorry, double post.
does anyone else have problems with long load times and the site timing-out, or is it just me?  maybe it's because i'm using opera....

[Mingesium]

"the Terry Tate, Office Linebacker original film series and commercials for Reebok"

those commercials are great. so does this mean there is an actually movie being made or did he just get the rights to make a movie?

[NWR_Lindy]

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Originally posted by: kingvudu

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While I'm sure fans would appreciate posters proclaiming 3:33, I'm sure mainstream America will either be uber-confused or the teens will declare it lame. I know I was stuck thinking about that whole March 33 thing for a few minutes before it clicked.

i'm still confused.  i beat the game about 6 months ago, but i must have forgotten what the 3:33 thing is.  does it have something to do with the 3 uber-baddies?

The 333 stuff appears at two points in the game (NOTE: potential spoilers):

1) In the opening cinema, Alexandra Roivas wakes up from a dream and the clock on her nightstand reads 3:33am.

2) Early on in the game you have to open up a secret room by collecting a second hand and a minute hand, putting them on a grandfather clock and setting the clock to 3:33.

That's it, as far as I can remember.

silks

[Gamefreak]

Unfortunately, the story is too complex to take off with the mainstream...It's not like putting out a movie will suddenly enlighten everyone... More people probably play games anyway than go to the theater, and OK so the GCN's userbase isn't that big but it didn't succeed with the games industry, and unless they pull off some extremely cool trailers and commercials (which is totally possible, especially with ED, but knowing Nintendo's advertising history...but then again they have the new ad agency now...) it probably won't do much better..

Besides, they'd have to dumb it down considerably. Games are too repetitive or long-winded and drawn out to be of any good in movies. It's not like anyone wants to see 12 characters all going on adventures in a row and then Alex kill a boss...