{"id":67578,"date":"2014-08-09T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=67578"},"modified":"2014-08-09T10:14:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T08:14:05","slug":"dead-island-the-movie-back-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/67578-dead-island-the-movie-back-in-development","title":{"rendered":"Dead Island the movie back in development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Island publisher Deep Silver still wants its zombie-killing game to\u00a0thrill audiences as a movie.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Deep Silver has\u00a0partnered with Occupant Entertainment to finance and produce a movie based on the game. Expect a tropical paradise with children&#8217;s arms being eaten, and large explosions in slow-motion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dead Island universe offers a rich and unique setting that can expand beyond the pure gaming experience,\u201d Deep Silver owner Koch Media CEO Dr. Klemens Kundratitz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very much looking forward to seeing Dead Island open up to new audiences and showing off the fun everybody at Deep Silver has with this brand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Deep Silver has flirted with the idea of turning their hit game into a film &#8211; the company made a similar deal with Lionsgate in 2011. That project, as you may have guessed, fell through<\/p>\n<p>If they turned the E3 2014 trailer for the Dead Island 2 &#8211; posted below &#8211; into a 90-minute zombie killer with dark humour, I would watch it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1CcgPnIlUZY?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/dead-island-movie-back-in-development\/1100-6421454\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/67570-video-games-make-you-a-criminal-who-smokes-and-drinks.html\">Video games make you a criminal who smokes and drinks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/67438-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-not-the-same-old-cod.html\">Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare not the \u201csame old CoD\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/67099-best-fighting-games-of-the-last-generation.html\">Best fighting games of the last generation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep Silver is not giving up on the Dead Island movie just yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":67580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1607,4821,5619,21],"class_list":["post-67578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dead-island","tag-dead-island-2","tag-game-movie","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67578","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}