Perhaps the title Duke Nukem Eternally referred to how lengthy it will take for them to make a film out of this online game.
A few years after Duke’s bombastic online game heyday, and at the least 4 years since we final heard a few severe try and adapt the sport, Duke Nukem is now getting one other shot on the cinematic massive time. In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, Legendary has obtained the rights to the franchise, and so they’re engaged on their very own adaptation.
They’ve introduced within the creators of the massively fashionable Cobra Kai collection, Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, to provide the movie. At this level, they’re neither writing nor directing Duke Nukem — THR claims “a seek for a author to sort out the fabric is underway” and there may be “probably” the prospect Heald, Hurwitz, and Schlossberg might additionally direct the movie.
The final time Duke Nukem was within the film information got here in 2018, when there have been experiences that John Cena was in talks to play the character. That’s really fairly good casting for Duke, an over-the-top spoof of tough-guy motion dudes. And it’s solely 4 years later, there’s no bodily motive Cena couldn’t nonetheless play the character if Heald, Hurwitz, and Schlossberg have been concerned with him. Cena’s Duke Nukem was developed by Paramount and Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes, nevertheless it by no means amounted to something.
Duke Nukem was one in all a bunch of 3D shooters fashionable within the Nineties. Its twist on the components was that as a substitute of enjoying issues darkish and scary like Doom, Duke was mainly a comedy. You solely have to take one take a look at the image of Duke above to see who the sport was meant to mock. With that in thoughts, it ought to be excellent uncooked materials for a giant broad motion comedy. Key phrase ought to.
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