300 director inks three-game EA deal

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Sep 29, 2008 10:31 am PT

Following in Spielberg's footsteps, Zack Snyder will "lead creative direction" on a trio of unnamed new IPs at megapublisher's LA studio.

In 2005, Electronic Arts announced a deal with Steven Spielberg to oversee development of a trio of original intellectual properties at the publisher's Los Angeles studio. So far, the partnership has yielded the Wii puzzler Boom Blox, although a futuristic PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 action adventure game is still in the works.

Today, EA announced a deal with another filmmaker of note, 300 director Zack Snyder. The agreement will have Snyder "lead the creative direction of the games while working in partnership with the production team at EA Los Angeles." EA will own the new IPs created under the arrangement, with the Dawn of the Dead remake director's production company, Cruel & Unusual Films, leading the effort to turn said games into feature films.

The EA deal will not extend to Snyder's current project, the big-screen adaptation of the celebrated DC Comics graphic novel Watchmen. A PC, 360, and PS3 adaptation of the film is being developed by Danish shop Deadline Games (Chili Con Carnage, Total Overdose) for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. WBIE is the game division of Warner Bros., the studio that will distribute Watchmen to theaters next March if a legal challenge from rival studio 20th Century Fox fails.

60 Comments

  • Toastman923

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 7:09 pm PT

    Zack Snyder does a great job, i can't wait to see what he has to offer to videogames

  • JustinHendre

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 6:57 pm PT

    There is a new 300 game being made. It's for the PS3, and XBOX360. For real it was on a leaked game list consisting of 275 new 360 titles coming. And 300 the videogame is one of them, not the PSP version this is gonna be the real version. If done right should be ultra bad A$$.

  • PSdual_wielder

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 6:22 pm PT

    I would really like to see comic book adaptations directly onto games, instead of something like a movie adaptation and then transferred into games, which would suck because at least anything transferred from a film to a game would suck. Maybe with this guy in the way direct comic book-to-game properties could be upstarted, I'm sure this kind of trend could work out.

  • KevComesRipping

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 5:33 pm PT

    To cjno13 maybe you should be telling this to the idiots who named the news piece "300 director inks three-game EA deal" it's misleading to begin with, they should have said "Director of 300, Watchman, inks 3 game deal with EA"

    On topic, boo.

  • cjno13

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 4:55 pm PT

    to all the idiots talking about a 300 game it says nothin about a 300 game and there already is one on the psp. so please learn to read so you dont sound like an idiot.

  • MacBrother

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 4:45 pm PT

    Oh God no they are making a Watchmen Video Game. And with a really bad developer too. Horrible.

  • mastermune89

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 4:44 pm PT

    it would be cool if he made a whole universe in this project,like a game and a movie that have little to do with one another but expand the story and flesh it all out.

  • liam72

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 4:30 pm PT

    300 is not a movie, it's a video game. There is no story, only action. Games can afford to have no story. Movies can't. Bad movie, but it would do a great game.

  • Factor-Zer0

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 4:07 pm PT

    When I red Spielberg my mind went right to ET.

  • ej1041

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 3:57 pm PT

    dark being 300 is not a crappy movie. its AWSOME! ^_^

  • worldind913

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 3:54 pm PT

    *Can't help myself* THIS IS MADNESS!

  • StealthKnife

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 3:53 pm PT

    not EA!!!!

  • nymets819

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 3:49 pm PT

    300 game would be awesome

  • Louisville18

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 3:48 pm PT

    i know it's not about games but i really hope Watchmen makes it to theaters next march, i think Snyder is a great director and it would be a real shame if arguably the greatest graphic novel of all-time(and my favorite)doesn't get made into a movie because of a legal issues, especially after how amazing that first trailer looked

  • redskinStu

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 3:36 pm PT

    So this is the idiot responsible for the "Dawn" remake?

  • O2k4

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 3:08 pm PT

    I doubt he'll direct a game, it's just marketing... like "some famous guy" -insert game name here- so the people who likes his movies gonna buy "his" games

  • Faller88

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 2:40 pm PT

    Regardless of My opinion of the guy, its not because someone's a good filmmaker that they know the mechanics of games....Following this logic, writers to can make games.Hell, R.A. Salvatore is working on an MMO at 38 Studios.(You know, where that Rich Gallup guy is working now.)....

  • dark_being

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 2:38 pm PT

    300 was a crappy movie. a friend of mine actually fall asleep during the screening, and I don't blame him. The remake of Dawn of the Dead was good, though, so I'm hoping there is still hope for this deal. Anyway, I wont be holding my breath for Snyder's games.

  • hashmanalum

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 2:34 pm PT

    Well we all know that 300 is a great movie so I HOPE that Zack makes those games AT LEAST as good as the movie...
    I'll accept nothing less! =D

  • LostSoul1974

    Posted Sep 29, 2008 2:33 pm PT

    Got mixed feelings about this, but who am I judge? Guess I'll just see how it plays out...

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