{"id":38394,"date":"2012-05-24T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T09:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38394"},"modified":"2012-05-25T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T11:33:15","slug":"shadow-of-the-colussus-movie-gets-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38394-shadow-of-the-colussus-movie-gets-director","title":{"rendered":"Shadow of the Colussus movie gets director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, a Shadow of the Colossus movie plan has been floating around Hollywood for a while now, as <a title=\"Sony Corp\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11859-Sony-Computer-Entertainment\">Sony<\/a> Pictures have been looking for the right men (or women) for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it seems things are coming together for probably the most ambitious film idea since The Avengers.<\/p>\n<p>Chronicle director <a title=\"Josh Trank\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/25151-Josh-Trank\">Josh Trank<\/a> has reportedly signed on with Sony Pictures and will head up the game-to-film adaption. Trank, along with Sony, are interviewing potential writers to pen a script.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that things are also slow on both ends of the spectrum, as the game&#8217;s developer, Team ICO, haven&#8217;t released anything since the 2005 colossi-killer, and nothing more has been shown of their long-awaited spiritual successor, The Last Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>And for those of you who haven&#8217;t played Shadow of the Colossus, there&#8217;s now an HD remake &#8211; there&#8217;s now no excuse.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the closest thing you&#8217;ll get to a live-action movie for now:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jqd9GiaJUos\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/05\/chronicle-helmer-josh-trank-takes-on-shadow-of-the-colossus-for-sony-pictures\/\">Deadline<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"NFS movie news\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35943-ea-sold-on-need-for-speed-movie.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EA sold on Need for Speed movie<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bioshock movie loses second director\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34750-bioshock-movie-loses-second-director.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bioshock movie loses second director<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/32500-sony-making-twisted-metal-movie.html\">Sony making Twisted Metal movie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/26811-tomb-raider-movie-reboot-is-a-character-piece.html\">Tomb Raider movie reboot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"5 Video Game Movies That Need To Be Unmade\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/12115-5-video-game-movies-that-need-to-be-unmade.html\">5 Video Game Movies That Need To Be Unmade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mass Effect anime movie in the works\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/11195-mass-effect-anime-movie-in-the-works.html\">Mass Effect movie in the works<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Movie \u201cnoobz\u201d gets first trailer and theatrical date\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33407-movie-noobz-gets-first-trailer-and-theatrical-date.html\">Movie \u201cnoobz\u201d gets first trailer and theatrical date<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game-to-film adaption making some headway in pre-production. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":38395,"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":[31,4493,4491,4430,4490,4489,4492,71,819],"class_list":["post-38394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-film-adaption","tag-josh-trank","tag-shadow-of-the-colossus","tag-shadow-of-the-colossus-live-action-movie","tag-shadow-of-the-colossus-movie","tag-son-pictures","tag-sony","tag-ster-kinekor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38394","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38401,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38394\/revisions\/38401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}