{"id":11784,"date":"2011-05-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"assassin-s-creed-ghost-recon-splinter-cell-films-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11784-assassin-s-creed-ghost-recon-splinter-cell-films-in-the-works","title":{"rendered":"Assassin\u2019s Creed, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell films in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Like an announcement from a parallel reality where this is actually a good idea or something, Ubisoft has revealed they&rsquo;ve got Assassin&rsquo;s Creed, Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell game-to-movie projects in the works. Apparently somebody over at Ubisoft HQ forgot to pass on that office memo about the Prince of Persia movie bombing at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to keep ownership, retain control over the film content, and we&#8217;re open to work with studios on the development of our projects, and eventually collaborate on the pre-casting, pre-budget and script,&#8221; Ubisoft Motion Pictures boss Jean-Julien Baronnet tells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118037076\" target=\"_blank\">Variety.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our strategy is not to diversify but to bolster the appeal of our franchises &#8211; that&#8217;s why we want to make sure our films will reflect the brands accurately and consolidate our fan base while expanding beyond the games&#8217; primary target audience,&#8221; adds senior marketing VP Jean de Rivieres, seemingly oblivious to a general, planetary contempt for this sort of thing.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie killed the videogame star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}