Vilandra
10-25-2005, 07:52 AM
12:00 AM, 25-OCTOBER-05
Destroy Heads For TV
Fox Broadcasting Co. has acquired the rights to develop THQ's best-selling SF video game Destroy All Humans! into a half-hour computer-animated comedy by former King of the Hill writer/co-executive producer Jim Dauterive, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The deal marks the first time a video game will be used as the basis for a prime-time network television program, the trade paper reported.
The script will be developed through 20th Century Fox TV, where Dauterive has an overall deal.
Set in the 1950s, the third-person action game puts players into the bulbous gray head of Crypto 137, an alien who has landed on Earth and is intent on destroying it. The game takes a comic approach and spoofs '50s Hollywood B-movies.
Game developer Pandemic's Australian studio created Destroy for THQ. The game, which debuted at last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, has shipped more than 1 million units worldwide since it launched in June.
Source: SciFiWire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=32996)
Destroy Heads For TV
Fox Broadcasting Co. has acquired the rights to develop THQ's best-selling SF video game Destroy All Humans! into a half-hour computer-animated comedy by former King of the Hill writer/co-executive producer Jim Dauterive, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The deal marks the first time a video game will be used as the basis for a prime-time network television program, the trade paper reported.
The script will be developed through 20th Century Fox TV, where Dauterive has an overall deal.
Set in the 1950s, the third-person action game puts players into the bulbous gray head of Crypto 137, an alien who has landed on Earth and is intent on destroying it. The game takes a comic approach and spoofs '50s Hollywood B-movies.
Game developer Pandemic's Australian studio created Destroy for THQ. The game, which debuted at last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, has shipped more than 1 million units worldwide since it launched in June.
Source: SciFiWire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=32996)