RUINER Lands Director For Universal Adaptation Of Hit Game
The next few years will be interesting to observe as video game fans now take to filmmaker Wes Ball to satiate their need to opine.
The Maze Runner trilogy helmer and the man who would have shepherded the long-awaited Mouse Guard is now on board to direct Ruiner, based on the latest cyberpunk action adventure game from Reikon Games. The news comes long after the director’s name was attached for a live-action iteration of Nintendo’s “The Legend Of Zelda” last November.
Variety’s Angelique Jackson reports that Ball will direct from a script by Michael Arlen Ross (upcoming Locked) for Universal. 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch are producing as will, Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg, and Oddball’s Ball and partner Joe Hartwick Jr.. Timothy I. Stevenson and Dan Jevons are exec producing along with Reikon’s Marek Roefler, Magdalena Tomkowicz, and Jakub Stylinski.
With over 4 million players and 90% positive reviews on Steam, “Ruiner” is an action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. As its official synopsis explains, “the game follows a wired psychopath who fights against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother. Under the guidance of a mysterious hacker, he battles through a world of brutal violence and cutting-edge technology, inching closer to the dark secrets hidden within the city’s neon-lit streets.”
Read more at Variety!
Lead photo via Steam
