IMMORTALISING
DUKE NUKEM
Copyright 2001 www.tombraiderchronicles.com Source:
E! Online
[ March 26th 2001 ]
Testosterone-fuelled
hero Duke Nukem is set to join Tomb Raider star
Lara Croft in celluloid immortalisation following
Dimension Films announcement that it will convert
the pixelled terminator to the silver screen,
E! Online reports today.
Duke
Nukem: The Movie will be a co production between
Dimension (a division of Bob and Harvey Weinstein's
Miramax) and multimedia giant Threshold Entertainment,
the company that first licensed the property from
game designer 3-D Realms three years ago. "I am
thrilled to bring this extremely successful video
game to the big screen," says Dimension co-chairman
Bob Weinstein. "This type of franchise, action
film, is the perfect fit for Dimension." While
a script is still in the offing, the plot will
be straight out of the video game. Our beer-guzzling
gunslinger takes on an alien ship on a collision
course with Mother Earth.
The Duke
movie franchise will extend the reach of a character
that's spawned nine game titles and generated
more than $1 billion in sales to become the best-selling
PC video game franchise of all time, joining Lara
Croft and Mario by fuelling the current trend
of computer game-to-silver-screen conversions.
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