I’ve known about this for some time, but it wasn’t my news to announce. Now that the secret’s out (thanks to Robert Farmer for alerting me to this), I can tell you that a new edition of the Mutant Chronicles roleplaying game is in the works. A new company called Center of Gravity Media Group is working on this third …
Mutant Chronicles Movie Site Up
The official website for the upcoming Mutant Chronicles movie is now live. It’s a bit thin at the moment, but it has information on the key cast members, plus a number of featurettes on the film’s production. One of the highlights of Comic-Con for me was chatting with Fred Malmberg and Thommy Wojciechowski of Paradox Entertainment about the film. They …
Conan Film Finds Auteur
As ICv2.com reports, the upcoming Conan movie has a confirmed writer/director: Boaz Yakin. Yakin wrote The Punisher and directed Remember the Titans. While this will be his first fantasy film, I have high hopes that Yakin will bring us the Conan film we’ve all been waiting for. In a perhaps-not-strange bit of coincidence, Tom Jane, who starred in Punisher, now …
Malkovich Makes Mutants
John Malkovich has signed on to play opposite Tom Jane in the upcoming Mutant Chronicles movie. Wow. I can’t tell you how exciting it is to see this all come together. I worked many years on the Mutant Chronicles roleplaying game (as well as on the Doomtrooper collectible card game and the Warzone miniatures game). I helped breathe life into …
Mutant Chronicles Movie Moving Ahead
Check out director Simon Hunter’s website for some details about the upcoming Mutant Chronicles movie from Pressman Films. He’s created a teaser for the film, which is being shown around Hollywood, and he hopes to post it online soon. Too cool.
Tom Jane is Mitch Hunter
According to ICv2.com, Tom (The Punisher) Jane has just been cast in the lead role (Mitch Hunter, I presume) for the upcoming Mutant Chronicles movie. The Mutant Chronicles was a roleplaying game I worked on in the early and mid ’90s for Target Games, then the largest game publisher in Sweden. The game’s been out of print for years, but …