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A film adaptation of the cult-classic video game True Crime is officially in development. Starring Wu-Tang Clan's RZA, the movie aims to bring the engaging story and compelling characters of the game to the big screen.
is a cult-classic video game that came in the wave of open world crime games following the major success of Grand Theft Auto. Those kinds of games have largely slowed down in recent years, likely because they extremely expensive to make and take years to materialize.
Mafia, Saints Row, and Watch Dogs were some of the other franchises to take a crack at it, butIt originally started a True Crime game, yet another GTA “clone” that was owned by Activision. The game eventually got scrapped and Square Enix took over and renamed it. It was immediately praised for its great gameplay, engaging story, and compelling characters, but it didn’t sell as well as as Square Enix had hoped. At that time, the publisher had high expectations for many of its games and claimed many of them didn’t hit those expectations, includingwas going to happen, but it was canceled and the developer United Front Games unfortunately shut down.. The film lingered in development hell for years and Yen even invested his own money to try to further it down the line, but it never entered full production or saw the light of day. The project eventually fizzled out and now, actorand is looking to get a deal made with the rights holders. The actor took to social media this week and talked about his love for the game, noting how he has a great deal of affinity for it and even has a wish list for some of the cast.It seemed like this just meant that Liu was in the very early stages of trying to get the movie off the ground, but that isn’t completely true. According tomovie is a go and is in full development. Liu is attached to play Wei Shen, the main protagonist ofwho is an undercover cop tasked with infiltrating a triad organization. A writer and major filmmaker are attached to help bring it to life, but the report doesn’t name anyone specific. On top of that,is being produced by Story Kitchen, a company that has done a lot of work on various video game adaptations including theor even any kind of window for production. It’s likely going to take some time to get cameras rolling, but it’s good to hear it’s not just a pipe dream. There’s hope among fans that amovie could lead to a sequel to the game if the film is successful. Of course, a lot of things have to happen for that to come to fruition, but it’s certainly the best chance at a sequel in years. As of right now, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens., it’s good that Liu is finding yet another action franchise for himself. The actor has largely been in comedies likeand non leading roles since his MCU debut. It seems likely he will probably be in the upcoming Avengers movies too, but that has yet to be confirmed.Get access to exclusive stories on new releases, movies, shows, comics, anime, games and more!
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