Transformers producer picks up City of Heroes

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Posted by Matt Holmes. Last modified on June 7th, 2007 at 11:23am

Transformers producer picks up City of Heroes

Transformers producer Tom DeSanto has picked up the feature rights to NCsoft and Cryptic Studio’s 2004 video game City of Heroes. The huge multiplayer online PC game allows it’s users to create and design their own superhero and they pay a monthly fee of $14.99 to fight all sorts of villains including aliens, criminals and of course super villains.

Of course that’s not going to be possible in the film. What City of Heroes will be sold upon is a superhero team who fight aliens…

Project revolves around a group of superheroes who live in Paragon City and must team in order to fight an invasion of aliens known as the Rikti.

The film will be live-action and it’s hoped the franchise can also be made into a television series of some form.

Superheroes vs. Aliens? Yeah sure why not, at least it’s something a little different. I think the superhero team up film hasn’t been bled dry yet as their is only the X-Men franchise that do that thing at the moment.

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Yesterday you asked, “What exactly are people going to call this era of film in twenty or thirty years time?” Highly profitable. A time when those of low-talent, but high immaturity took over cinema and forced the adults out. A few works of quality “X-Men,” “Road to Perdition” but mostly crap sh*t out by idiots more interested in tie-ins and merchandising rights than with a story.

A time when people who really should know better (on other blogs, mind you) praise no-talent hacks like Michael Bay when it’s obivious he’s butchering movies. The reason this “era/error” of filmmaking exists is because studios aren’t run by filmmakers, they’re run by multinational media conglomerates. Filmmakers don’t make the films, Wall Street tycoons, and hedge-fund managers do. They’re looking at the bottom-line, hence EVERY movie has to appeal to the widest possible demographic. This is why Die Hard 4 had to be watered down to get a PG-13 rating. It’s the teens who are the main moviegoers these days so that’s who the media moguls want to reach.

As long as people heap praise on Bay for the hack job he’s doing it will only serve to validate this mess and perpetuate it. We have very dark days ahead.

Comment by JaySmack | June 7, 2007

I like superhero movies but this just seems desparate.

Comment by Tino | June 8, 2007