Classic Gaming 'Rampage' Headed to Giant Screen From New Line (Exclusive)

Who's up for any little Rampage? New Line Cinema has put in development an adaptation from the classic eighties gaming featuring apes and monsters wrecking metropolitan areas. John Rickard, that has behaved like a co-producer on an array of New Line movies from the Nightmare on Elm Street and Final Destination to Horrible Bosses and then year's tentpole Jack the Giant Killer, will produce and it is ending up in authors to build up a tale for that project. The overall game originates from Half way Games, that was acquired by New Line's sister company Warner Bros. last year for $33 million. The idea of the overall game involves a trio of mild-mannered humans who're mutated right into a giant Godzilla-like lizard, a werewolf along with a gorilla, correspondingly, and fight the military while wrecking structures. Gamers controlled the monsters and increased levels whenever a city was destroyed. The project aims to make use of the title and also the pictures of the overall game. New Line is not usually within the tentpole business (the The almighty from the Rings trilogy being the large exception) however the studio thinks that technologies have advanced enough the possibility is available to create a smartly-allocated monster movie within the vein and tone of Ghostbusters and Independence Day. Email: Borys.Package@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Package