Lakeshore Entertainment has acquired the rights to Ernie Cline's original screenplay Thundercade, about a grown-up video game junkie who ditches his job to reclaim his world record at a gaming tournament.
Lakeshore chairman Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi will develop and produce with Dan Farah of Farah Films. Lakeshore intends to fast-track the project once the producers have hired a director.
'I'm a lifelong video game addict and the proud owner of six different game consoles, so I've always wanted to write a movie about video game culture,' Cline, who wrote Fanboys, said.
'Having spent countless hours playing Xbox with my nephew and listening to him trash talk me, I fell in love with the idea of pitting older 'classic arcade era' gamers from the 80s against teenagers - the Atari 2600 generation versus the Xbox 360 generation.'
Farah and Cline developed the project from concept to script and were represented in the deal by attorney David Feldman of Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette & Feldman and CAA.
Farah is a producer on Armored, which is in post-production at Screen Gems and stars Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno, Milo Ventimiglia and Columbus Short. and is directed by Nimrod Antal.
Lakeshore is currently in pre-production on the romantic comedy The Ugly Truth starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, which Robert Luketic will direct.
Lakeshore chairman Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi will develop and produce with Dan Farah of Farah Films. Lakeshore intends to fast-track the project once the producers have hired a director.
'I'm a lifelong video game addict and the proud owner of six different game consoles, so I've always wanted to write a movie about video game culture,' Cline, who wrote Fanboys, said.
'Having spent countless hours playing Xbox with my nephew and listening to him trash talk me, I fell in love with the idea of pitting older 'classic arcade era' gamers from the 80s against teenagers - the Atari 2600 generation versus the Xbox 360 generation.'
Farah and Cline developed the project from concept to script and were represented in the deal by attorney David Feldman of Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette & Feldman and CAA.
Farah is a producer on Armored, which is in post-production at Screen Gems and stars Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno, Milo Ventimiglia and Columbus Short. and is directed by Nimrod Antal.
Lakeshore is currently in pre-production on the romantic comedy The Ugly Truth starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, which Robert Luketic will direct.
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