Patrick Osbourne is Tapped to Direct the Monument Valley Movie
Paramount Pictures and Weed Road Pictures have confirmed their plans to adapt the critically-acclaimed mobile game Monument Valley into a live action/CGI movie.
According to Deadline, Patrick Osbourne — best known for his Oscar win in the Best Animated Short Film category for Feast and who is currently directing Nimona — is tapped to adapt Ustwo Games’ Escher-esque puzzle game to the big screen. The film will apparently incorporate live-action characters into the games’ colourful and mind-bending world.
“Monument Valley is a one of a kind experience, at once small in its meditative, simple gameplay, as well as enormous in its sense of history,” Osborne said. “I’m privileged to be handed the reins to Ida’s mysterious kingdom, to play in her world of impossible architecture where seeing things differently is everything. I am thrilled to bring this unique world to theatres with the talented storytellers of Paramount and Weed Road.”
“It’s been four years since we launched the first Monument Valley and have been waiting for the perfect opportunity to take our world of beauty and impossibility into cinema,” said Head of Ustwo Games, Dan Gray. “We’re incredibly happy that we’ve found the perfect creative partners in Paramount, Weed Road and Patrick Osborne to champion this concept forward into another medium.”
Monument Valley was released back in 2014 on iOS where it blew away sales expectations at an incredible rate. Within its first year of release, Ustwo made nearly $5.8 million in revenue which more than made up for the $1.4 million it took to create the game. The game also hit mainstream status after it appeared in a Season 3 episode of Netflix’s House of Cards in 2015. A sequel was released on iOS and Android last year in June to similar critical acclaim. The sequel was also nominated for Best Mobile Game at the GDC Awards.
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