The Cool-Wanting Expedition 33 Sport Is Trekking to Hollywood

A few of us right here at io9 play video games, and we’re greater than intrigued by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Whereas Sandfall Interactive’s Atlus–inspired RPG isn’t out till April, it’s already being eyed for a live-action film.

Per Variety, Sandfall is teaming with manufacturing firm Story Kitchen to convey its debut sport to the silver display screen. The darkish fantasy sport focuses on a gaggle of people who got down to defeat the Paintress, a godlike determine who paints a quantity on her monolith, after which everybody that age vanishes. Gamers tackle the position of the titular Expedition 33, whose members—voiced by the likes of Charlie Cox, Remaining Fantasy’s Ben Starr, and Baldur’s Gate 3’s Jennifer English, amongst others—are tasked with stopping the Paintress earlier than humanity’s worn out.

Sandfall CEO and artistic director Guillaume Broche mentioned the film “permits us to increase the universe of Clair Obscur past gaming. [Story Kitchen’s] experience in storytelling and fervour for our imaginative and prescient make them the proper crew to translate our sport right into a fascinating movie.”

Over the previous few years, Story Kitchen has helped get diversifications for Tomb Raider and Sonic off the bottom, and its present slate additionally contains adapting video games like Just Cause and Sifu—and since sport diversifications are so scorching proper now, Expedition 33 may need a superb probability of coming to fruition. Founders Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg recommended the sport’s “compelling narrative and complicated characters, [which] present a stable basis for a cinematic expertise that may resonate with each players and moviegoers alike.”

Because the search is on for expertise behind and in entrance of the digicam for the hopeful adaptation, Sandfall is releasing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S on April 24.

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