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Monday, October 30, 2006

Oddworld Inhabitants announce feature film

I was bummed when the massively under-appreciated (read: commercially disappointing) Stranger's Wrath video game from Oddworld Inhabitants ostensibly caused the company to turn its back on making video games.

I mean, Abe's Odyssey remains one of my all-time favorite PC games. The sequels rocked. Stranger's Wrath is quirky and stylish and great.

But the silver lining in that announcement was the hint of something else for the company -- something like movies.

Oddworld Inhabitants co-founder Lorne Lanning announced in his keynote at the GameCity event (in Nottingham, England) that he will be directing the company's first CGI movie, Citizen Siege. Not only will this movie feature the beautiful and stylish and detailed art that sets Oddworld games apart from others, but there will be a companion video game for the film, using the same creative assets.

Citizen Siege will be a "politically edgy sci-fi action thriller," will be produced in conjunction with Vanguard Animation (Valiant), with John Williams, (optioned/developed/produced Shrek/2/3 over at Dreamworks) and will be the film's producer. Makes sense, since he produced Valiant, and he's also producing Vanguard's two in-production films, Happily Never After and Space Chimps.

I'm excited to see what Oddworld Inhabitants does on the big screen, and I'm glad they're creatively alove and kicking.

And they should hire me for voice acting.

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Adam Creighton, Computer and Video Gaming (Subscribe)

Monday, October 30, 2006

Oddworld Inhabitants announce feature film

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