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CROSSFIRE: Sony Targets Live-Action Adaptation Of Popular First-Person Shooter With Smilegate

Trade sources have reported and confirmed announcements from Smilegate with word on a new live-action film adaptation in development for first-person shooter, Crossfire. The South Korean game developer will partner with Sony Pictures with Tencent Pictures co-producing and co-finance the project. The move into feature film territory with Sony marks the latest update in a previous deal made between Smilegate and Fast saga producer Neal Moritz’s Original Film. Chuck Hogan (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi) has long since been attached to the script in its development stages with Smilegate dating back to 2017. “I am very excited to prove the wonder of CROSSFIRE IP to the world through a Hollywood major motion picture with a great partner Sony Pictures,” says Smilegate’s EVP of Marketing/IP Business Development, Paek Min-jung. “Creating and spreading a household IP has always been Smilegate’s direction and goal. We have discussed and prepared the movie […]

A Live-Action Feature Adap Of First Person Shooter, CROSSFIRE, Is In The Works At Original Film

Lee B. Golden III

Megahit producer Neal Moritz is already attached to a slew of titles, including a Highlander reboot and the April 2017 installation of Fast And Furious 8. In the meantime, he continues to have his work cut out for him, including a new adaptation of the popular 2007 first-person shooter, Crossfire. The game hails from South Korea’s own Smilegate Group with a reported 60 million concurrent users and up to 400 million registered players in 80 countries, and a place in Forbes as Top Earning Free-To-Play Game in 2013. Variety reports Smilegate chose to place their faith in Moritz’s Original Film banner after deliberating with a number of offers, in an effort to help embolden the game into an action packed feature film with all the trimmings, and franchise potential to boot. CROSSFIRE is an authentic military-themed FPS where two rival factions, Global Risk and Black List, with opposing world view […]