Activision Snatches Rights to New Spielberg Movie
Minority Report goes to Activision
Activision has announced that it has won the rights to the next Steven Spielberg movie, Minority Report, which stars Tom Cruise and is due out in 2002.
The deal is for multiple systems and retains all game publishing rights for the next five years.
Written by Philip K Dick, whose stories were adapted for the films Blade Runner and Total Recall, Minority Report is a futuristic thriller. Tom Cruise plays a cop working in the police’s Time Dilation department. He basically has to travel back in time and arrest murderers before they have a chance to kill.
“Minority Report lends itself well to a wide variety of gameplay elements with intense futuristic storylines and gripping action-packed sequences,” said Activision's President and COO, Ron Doornink. “As a multi-platform publisher, we intend to leverage this property across all of the major gaming systems including the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance and the PC. We are very excited to work with Steven Spielberg, Fox Interactive and DreamWorks Pictures on what is expected to be one of the most anticipated films of 2002.”
“Minority Report is ideally suited to be not only a great motion picture but an immersive and exciting interactive game, and we're pleased to have Activision as a partner in bringing such a great property to the gaming arena,” stated Steve Bersch, president of Fox Interactive. “It's clear that Minority Report will be one of the biggest blockbusters of 2002. With this film, Steven continues his legacy of creating.”
The deal is for multiple systems and retains all game publishing rights for the next five years.
Written by Philip K Dick, whose stories were adapted for the films Blade Runner and Total Recall, Minority Report is a futuristic thriller. Tom Cruise plays a cop working in the police’s Time Dilation department. He basically has to travel back in time and arrest murderers before they have a chance to kill.
“Minority Report lends itself well to a wide variety of gameplay elements with intense futuristic storylines and gripping action-packed sequences,” said Activision's President and COO, Ron Doornink. “As a multi-platform publisher, we intend to leverage this property across all of the major gaming systems including the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance and the PC. We are very excited to work with Steven Spielberg, Fox Interactive and DreamWorks Pictures on what is expected to be one of the most anticipated films of 2002.”
“Minority Report is ideally suited to be not only a great motion picture but an immersive and exciting interactive game, and we're pleased to have Activision as a partner in bringing such a great property to the gaming arena,” stated Steve Bersch, president of Fox Interactive. “It's clear that Minority Report will be one of the biggest blockbusters of 2002. With this film, Steven continues his legacy of creating.”
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