In the same way that video game get turn into motion-picture show ( orTV show ! ) these days , the reverse is true . It does n’t happen quite as often , but a number of movies have jump out over to biz in some capacity , and they ’re ordinarily somewhat notable or long - run franchises . Star Wars is the most obvious example , but there ’s also been a number of games forTron , Terminator , and Robocop . There was even a pair of find out TV secret plan back in the other days of that enfranchisement .
The next movie to hop-skip over into game will be 2022 ’s Barbarian . On Friday , Bloody Disgustingrevealed the upcoming title will be for PC and consoles , in a partnership between New Regency Pictures and Diversion3 Entertainment . Diversion3 previously worked on the plot adaptations of both Friday the 13th and Evil Dead ( the latter of whichhad its supportended this back September ) , and executive producer Tim Hesse press out his excitement at “ [ expanding ] on the setting , fictional character , and creatures of Barbarian . The film did a magnificent job of not only scare away audiences with its unexpected and appall machine and turn , but also in found stiff character thrown into terrifying situations . ”
Barbarian was the directorial unveiling of comedian / author Zach Cregger , and was one of those flick where folk told you to go in knowing nothing about its first few weeks of liberation . In all-inclusive stroke , the picture star Georgina Campbell as Tess , a woman who circumstantially double - rule book an AirBnB with a man distinguish Keith ( Bill Skarsgård ) in the middle of the night , at which point things get … jolly bad for both them and finally Justin Long ’s AJ . With a $ 45.4 million box part and fairly positive reviews , there ’s no traverse that the moving picture did pretty well and left an impression — last twelvemonth , we noted the film had two of thebest moving-picture show moments of 2022 — but it was n’t one of those revulsion movies that ended in a path that left room for more . Cregger himselfeven include as such that he was n’t really interested in doing some form of follow - up .
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