Good news for those who love the most nostalgic video games. Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, producers cobra kaiSequel to the Netflix series karate boyMake a movie of the popular 90’s video game, Duke Nukem, With Legendary Pictures.

as he reported Hollywood ReporterThe project licensed by Legendary, which is responsible for films such as sand dunes de Villeneuve, two deliveries 300epic Pacific Rim or franchise Godzillais under development.

first edition Duke Nuke It was launched in 1991 and was founded in the then-near-future 1997. The plot revolves around the evil Dr. He followed in the footsteps of the hero Duke Nukem, who was supposed to stop Proton.

An ambitious bid that will include Jean Julien Baronnet of Marla Studios, in addition to the production of Heald, Hurwotz and Scholossberg through their production company Counterbalance Entertainment. It’s a company fans will be familiar with, as it specializes in video game adaptations like Assassins Creed starring Michael Fassbender in 2016.

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Of course, although few details are known about the film, which no director has ties to at the moment, the film’s directors are already looking for the person who will be responsible for developing the story’s script.

Of course, this isn’t the first time Hollywood has shown interest in raising an adaptation of Duke Nukem. It’s no surprise, because this forerunner of shoot em up – first-person shooters – took a few elements from ’80s action movies as inspiration.

It is precisely this style, as extravagant as its brazen hooliganism, that has driven many indie producers, unluckily, to want to bring their video game to the big screen.

In fact, it was almost four years ago when the company that sold the video game rights to Legendary Pictures was about to acquire Gearbox.

The company, which has not yet released Borderlands, another successful video game with Elite Roth behind the scenes, tried to develop a Duke Nukem movie with Paramount starring John Cena. However, the project stalled and so far into obscurity as the producers of Legendary and Cobra Kai took the space.