Legendary Entertainment, along with Cobra Kai creators Hayden Schlossberg, Jon Hurwitz, and Josh Heald, is bringing Duke Nukem to the silver screen.
A story by The Hollywood Reporter confirms Legendary has acquired the film rights from Gearbox Software and will produce alongside Jean Julien Baronnet of Marla Studios, best known for the live-action Assassin’s Creed movie. The report also states that Schlossberg, Hurwitz, and Heald are onboard as producers.
The ink on this deal is still dry, though, as there’s no director yet. Legendary is also looking for a writer to tackle the material as well. So it’ll be years before this movie ever comes out.
The original Duke Nukem is right up there with Doom, Wolfenstein, and Quake in terms of first-person shooters that defined the genre in the 1990s. Ask any PC gaming expert; it was a big deal back then. There’s not been an entry in the series for more than a decade, mainly because Duke Nukem Forever is awful. For real, don’t ever touch that game.
There are seemingly endless video game adaptations in the works right now. Some of the more significant projects include Twisted Metal, Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, and Netflix’s Resident Evil.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
