The latest game-to-movie deal is one that perhaps is not much of a surprise. Variety is reporting that EA's alien evolution sim Spore will be turned into a CGI feature film by Twentieth Century Fox. The movie itself will be created by Blue Sky Studios who created the popular Ice Age series of films. Indeed the director of the first Ice Age movie, Chris Wedge, is scheduled to direct the Spore film.
The script is being written by Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, who also wrote the script for the upcoming Disney 2D animated movie The Princess and the Frog. EA Maxis VP Lucy Bradshaw will be an executive director of the Spore movie. However there doesn't appear to be a similar credit for Spore's creator Will Wright, who left EA shortly after Spore shipped to stores last fall.
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Oh, for crying out loud.Posted at 5:55AM on Oct 3rd 2009 by Michael Leung