New Line Cinema this week revealed that they are working on a film adaptation of the classic Midway arcade game Rampage, according to Heat Vision, a geek culture blog that runs under the Hollywood Reporter banner. The studio is meeting with producer John Rickard (who also worked on the recent Horrible Bosses, and the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot) to flesh out the idea.
For those unfamiliar, Rampage, an arcade game from the mid-80’s, is about a trio of humans who are accidentally turned into a trio of monsters (only two of which make sense in a monster movie context): a King Kong-like giant gorilla, a Godzilla-like reptilian monster, and a giant wolf-man. The objective of the game is to survive, which must be accomplished by destroying every city on the globe one building-punch at a time, while killing millions of innocent people, eating many of them (a monster’s gotta keep up his strength). The latest iteration of the game (from 2006) is terrible, failing to capture the sheer fun and antagonism of the original three-player cooperative epic.
Warner Bros. (parent company to New Line) purchased the franchise in 2009, and some suspected another video game would be in the works. Seems that this is the project they had in mind.
Rickard is the only name attached so far, and since it’s still in development, there is no telling when the film might actually be produced, if ever.
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