Rumor: Mechwarrior movie in the works?

Posted Sep 30th 2009 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action

While developer Piranha Games is working on a revival of the Mechwarrior game franchise, it's looking like the action-sim game series could be getting attention from Hollywood. Our sister site Joystiq, working with unnamed sources, is reporting that a Mechwarrior feature film is in the works.

The movie rights to the franchise are currently owned by The Tornante Company, which is headed up by former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. According to Joystiq the movie version will have a screenplay from Michael Gordon. His previous credits include 300 and this year's G.I. Joe flick. It sounds like any Mechwarrior movie is still a long way from completion but with the financial success of the Transformers films perhaps Hollywood will be more interested in such a project.

Tags: mechwarrior, mechwarrior-movie, michael-eisner, piranha-games, smith-and-tinker

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Please, do not even mention Transformers in the same sentance as Mech Warrior. While they both deal with giant robots, Transformers targets a younger audience, and is more towards the funny side. If a Mech Warrior movie were to come out, it would have to be gritty and realistic.Posted at 2:42PM on Sep 30th 2009 by Eric Jackson

I would have to agree with the previous post. Mechwarrior has the background to be much like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings...an Epic. Just doing a Transformers type knockoff and calling it MechWarrior would be a waste of a great property. Posted at 2:50AM on Nov 25th 2009 by Steve B