EQ movie

[rhonnin]

I remember hearing a rumor about this years ago but never thought it was real.

EverQuest Movie Scoop!
IGN has the exclusive word on the game-to-film.
by Stax


October 5, 2007 - IGN has learned that Sony Pictures is teaming with former Marvel Studios honcho Avi Arad to bring Sony Online Entertainment's 3-D massively multiplayer online role-playing fantasy game EverQuest to the big screen.

Reliable sources have informed us that the studio views the project as a tentpole release for either 2009 or 2010. We have been told that Michael Gordon (300) has been tapped to pen the screenplay. Rumblings of an EverQuest movie first surfaced in 2000.

While plot details are being kept under wraps, the fantasy epic will be based on an original pitch by Gordon and will feature some seminal characters from the game.

IGN contacted Sony Pictures for comment. The studio did not deny our report but added that no release date had been set yet for the film.

EverQuest takes place in the fantastical world of Norrath -- a realm inhabited by 14 different races including humans, ogres, elves and animal-human hybrids -- and its moon Luclin. Other planes of reality also exist within the game's universe. Players create avatars that can slay monsters, embark on quests or acquire treasure.

EverQuest marks Arad's most ambitious project since parting ways last year with Marvel Studios, where he produced such hits as Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and Blade. His most recent non-Marvel film production was Bratz.

[TheLoneTerran]

Uh oh. *sniffs the air* I smell failure. It is SOE's baby after all....

[Gunther]

Uh oh. *sniffs the air* I smell failure. It is SOE's baby after all....

Hopefully SOE's role will merely pertain to the basis of what Michael Gordon writes. Michael Gordon wrote the screenplay for 300. I'm sure he can come up with a creative storyline based on Norrath and Luclin. I'm eager/curious to see how this turns out.

[luvpeebo]

Seriously?

[BigBossMonkey]

Blizzard gets a WOW movie, SOE wants a EQ movie.

[rhonnin]

The EQ movie idea has been around since 2000 so it's more like the reverse.

[HeavyArmsCustum]

Maybe, but the WoW movie would do better, even if it were worse.

[Gunther]

Maybe, but the WoW movie would do better, even if it were worse.

I disagree. WoW would not have attained the popularity it is at if it weren't for EQ. Notoriety of the game and lessons learned from EQ needed to happen before WoW and it's developments could get to where they are now.

[USDnobody]

yeah but wow had a few smash hits in the same universe ahead of it.

[Damaen]

the writer from 300? please.

the movie was page for scene the same as the graphic novel. All he did was create the kings wife. i wouldnt look to his name for hope in this movie. wait till it gets a director and and actor or 2. UWE BOLL (sp?) imo!!