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Delighting fright-flick fanatics and zombie gamers everywhere, a newThe House of the Deadmovie is being adapted and is in the works withResident Evil’s Paul W.S. Anderson set to write and direct. Released by Sega in 1997,The House of the Deadwas one of the most popular games to be seen in arcades across the globe, as people, young and old, picked up a light gun in a mission to clear hordes of zombies over countless levels. Along with the popularity ofResident Evil,House of the Deadis credited with popularizing zombie video games, further leading to a massive boom in the appeal of zombie films, especially during the 2000s.
This isn’t the first time, however, thatThe House of the Deadhas received an adaptation. Just over 20 years ago, German filmmaker, Uwe Boll, turned the classic game into a movie but, unfortunately, the film wasn’t a success among its dedicated audience and was regarded as a box-office bomb, making only $42 million worldwide against a budget of $12 million. Again, a secondHouse of the Deadfilm, directed by Michael Hurst, was also poorly received. Now, in a bid to win back its moviegoing fans it once lost to two unsuccessful adaptations and giveone of the best horror gamesa fair shake, an action-packed feature based on the legacy Sega franchise is making its way to the big screen.
As reported byDeadline, Paul W.S Anderson, who directedEvent Horizon, Alien vs. Predator,and theResident Evilfilm franchise, is set to adapt aHouse of the Deadmovie of his own. The film will be produced alongside Anderson’s longtime collaborator Jeremy Bolt and is set to follow the plot of the third game in the series. Others that are confirmed to be working on the adaptation are Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Dan Jevons, with Sega’s Toru Nakahara, who worked on variousSonic the Hedgehogadaptations, including the 2020Sonic the Hedgehogmovie, and theKnucklesTV show, serving as an executive producer.
Along with the announcement, a bunch of concept art images were released by Sega to the outlet that showed off a horde of terrifying zombies and a giant demon-looking creature wielding a weapon that seriously doesn’t look like anyone should mess around with it. Going by the pictures alone, there’s a good chance that thisHouse of the Deadadaptation might be the scariest andbest zombie movieto have been released in quite a few years.
TheHouse of the Deadmovie is set to begin production sometime in mid-to-late 2025 but, as yet, the adaptation does not have an official synopsis or cast list line-up. Here’s hoping theHouse of the Deadadaptation can rectify its past mistakes and also take its storyline, whatever it may be, to greater heights without falling victim topredictable horror movie tropes.
