Spyro heading to the big screen
Category: Industry, Posted: 10/26/2007 at 11:32AM CDT by Billy Wang, Previews Editor
The next game series to transcend from a video game to the big screen will be the purple and adorable Spyro the Dragon. According to a report today in Variety, The Animation Picture Co. picked up the film rights from Sierra Entertainment and is planning to turn Spyro into a 3D CGI feature film.
Writers Steve and Dan Altiere (Dr. Dolittle 4 and 5) will pen a script based around the recent Legend of Spyro games, which are being planned as a trilogy. The most recently released game in that series was last week's Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night for the Wii, PS2, DS and GBA.
Spyro will be The Animation Picture's third feature film; the company just finished Garfield Gets Real with Garfield creator Jim Davis.
Considering that the Legend of Spyro game developers hired some big name Hollywood voice talent for their titles -- namely actors Elijah Wood, Billy West and Gary Oldman voicing Spyro, Sparx and Ignitus, respectively -- I would wager these individuals may be contacted to do the film.
As of now, no director has been hired nor does the Spyro film have a release date, so stay tuned!
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I remember playing this game a bit. It'd be great movie material...
A Spyro movie... Written by the guys who wrote Dr. Dolittle 4 and 5?
This will certainly not end up poorly.
This is how my AIM conversation with Brendon went:
Brendon: *link to story*
Me: great, a trilogy
Me: great, the recent Spyro games
Me: i.e. the awful ones
Brendon: But the writers are high quality!
Me: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD FRANCHISE
That's it, I'm boycotting Hollywood.
"This will certainly not end up poorly."
Sarcasm Brendon?
spyro? huh? a film? wha?
i cant...
but..
there are no words
Why? For the love of God, why? I used to love Spyro 1 and 2. All the others were awful.