The Cool-Wanting Expedition 33 Sport Is Trekking to Hollywood

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

Per Selection, Sandfall is teaming with manufacturing firm Story Kitchen to deliver its debut recreation to the silver display. The darkish fantasy recreation focuses on a bunch 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 function of the titular Expedition 33, whose members—voiced by the likes of Charlie Cox, Ultimate 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 inventive director Guillaume Broche mentioned the film “permits us to increase the universe of Clair Obscur past gaming. [Story Kitchen’s] experience in storytelling and keenness for our imaginative and prescient make them the right workforce to translate our recreation right into a charming movie.”

Over the previous few years, Story Kitchen has helped get variations for Tomb Raider and Sonic off the bottom, and its present slate additionally consists of adapting video games like Simply Trigger and Sifu—and since recreation variations are so sizzling proper now, Expedition 33 may need an excellent likelihood of coming to fruition. Founders Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg counseled the sport’s “compelling narrative and sophisticated characters, [which] present a stable basis for a cinematic expertise that can resonate with each avid gamers 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 Collection X|S on April 24.

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