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EXCLUSIVE: An auction of screen rights for the PlayStation3 game Heavy Rain is coming to a close. I’m told a deal is near with Unique Features, the film shingle started by Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne after they exited New Line.
Using their own money, Shaye and Lynne posted top bid in an auction held by CAA on behalf of game developers Quantic Dream.
Heavy Rain has sold 1 million units since its release in February. The game’s combination of murder, rain and an inherent atmospheric gloom evokes memories of the David Fincher-directed Seven, one of the formative blockbusters at New Line when Shaye and Lynne grew that company into a rival to the majors.
Players hunt the “Origami Killer,” a serial murderer who drowns his victims four days after they are abducted, leaving only a small origami figure and an orchid on the corpse. The game becomes a procedural in which four characters try to solve the crime after another potential victim is kidnapped.
Unique has a first look deal with Warner Bros, but Shaye liked it enough to use his own money and not wait for approval to buy it. A deal should be sealed shortly.
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a movie based on a movie? ok
Fincher’s SEVEN, yes, but also maybe BLACK RAIN directed by Ridley Scott?
The Yakuza are famous for killing when it rains to avoid crime scenes so nothing new there and the origami bit is kinda cheezey but who knows… maybe it’ll be huge like, uh, ZODIAC…
It would be cooler if it were “Chubby Rain.”
Ah, a Bowfinger reference–not exactly a common occurance. I would add perhaps Chocolate Rain?
I played this choose-your-own-adventure game with my girlfriend because it’s a game that you can’t lose. Somehow, one of our characters died from smoking crack, one burned to death in a fire, one killed himself, and the other: well, you’ll have to play the game. Needless to say, we broke up.
Awesome! That game was incredible.
Blade Runner???
yet ANOTHER property that Bob Shaye and Dylan Sellers have brought with their discretionary that will NEVER get set up. When’s their deal up?
Sounds more like SILENCE OF THE LAMBS redux.
@Shaggy
Gotcha Suckers!
This is a cool game, but nothing compared to Clock Tower. THOSE games were mad scary! Haven’t played anything to top that yet.
This game was awesome! I would this game all over again
Heavy Rain is as close to a movie as you can get without, you know, actually being a movie.
Why do we need a movie-movie version of this??
The world of gaming and and cinema never mix well. Heavy Rain was a great game. It was a movie its self. Hopefully they get the same person to write the story, his characters were amazing. Although movies and games are paced so differently, Hopefully they will proof me wrong I loved the game I would stay faithful to the franchise I believe most will.
thats great that they are making a movie they can change up the story and not make it exactly like the video game and it will be great and they should definitely make a deal with warner bros.