The Cool-Wanting Expedition 33 Sport Is Trekking to Hollywood

A few of us right here at io9 play video games, and we’re greater than intrigued by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Whereas Sandfall Interactive’s Atlus–inspired RPG isn’t out till April, it’s already being eyed for a live-action film.

Per Variety, Sandfall is teaming with manufacturing firm Story Kitchen to convey its debut sport to the silver display screen. The darkish fantasy sport focuses on a gaggle of people who got down to defeat the Paintress, a godlike determine who paints a quantity on her monolith, after which everybody that age vanishes. Gamers tackle the position of the titular Expedition 33, whose members—voiced by the likes of Charlie Cox, Closing Fantasy’s Ben Starr, and Baldur’s Gate 3’s Jennifer English, amongst others—are tasked with stopping the Paintress earlier than humanity’s worn out.

Sandfall CEO and inventive director Guillaume Broche mentioned the film “permits us to increase the universe of Clair Obscur past gaming. [Story Kitchen’s] experience in storytelling and keenness for our imaginative and prescient make them the right workforce to translate our sport right into a charming movie.”

Over the previous few years, Story Kitchen has helped get variations for Tomb Raider and Sonic off the bottom, and its present slate additionally contains adapting video games like Just Cause and Sifu—and since sport variations are so sizzling proper now, Expedition 33 might need a very good probability of coming to fruition. Founders Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg counseled the sport’s “compelling narrative and sophisticated characters, [which] present a strong basis for a cinematic expertise that may resonate with each players and moviegoers alike.”

Because the search is on for expertise behind and in entrance of the digicam for the hopeful adaptation, Sandfall is releasing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Collection X|S on April 24.

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