{"id":72,"date":"2024-02-26T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-08-21T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T21:57:08","slug":"marauder-film-purchases-cinematic-rights-to-primordia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/marauder-film-purchases-cinematic-rights-to-primordia\/","title":{"rendered":"Marauder Film Purchases Cinematic Rights to Primordia"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/div>\n

Early today, Marauder Film<\/a> exercised its option to purchase the rights to make a cinematic adaptation of Primordia! It\u2019s another major step forward, even if the final destination is still a good ways off.<\/p>\n

This journey started five years ago with an email from Bastiaan Koch<\/a> (head of Marauder Film) to Mark Yohalem (Primordia\u2019s writer\/designer) asking about the possibility of adapting Primordia. Bastiaan is a movie-industry veteran with decades of experience on films like Pacific Rim, Rango, and Ready Player One.<\/p>\n

Given the overwhelming enthusiasm from co-creators James Spanos (Primordia\u2019s coder) and Victor Pflug (Primordia\u2019s artist)\u2014and after meeting with Bastiaan in person and seeing how enthusiastic he was\u2014Mark got over his uncertainties, and we all signed an option with Marauder Film. It seemed like an impossible dream, but bit by bit, Bastiaan worked to turn that dream into reality. He enlisted Walker McKnight<\/a>, Winner of the Academy\u2019s Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting award, to write a treatment and then a screenplay, and brought in his team of artists to develop the project\u2019s look.<\/p>\n

Over the years of that development process, Bastiaan spent hours talking with each of us about what Primordia meant to us. When he shared Walker\u2019s draft script in January 2023, we each responded in our own style. Mark told Bastiaan about his \u201cAunt Virginia, whose poem \u2018The Inheritors\u2019 was so inspirational for Primordia,\u201d explaining that in another poem<\/a>, she imagined undergoing a sea-change that would bring new joy to others: \u201cShape me and shine me into a sea prize \/ Found by a boy\u2019s \/ Quick eyes in glad surprise. \/ Sea, sky and sand, \/ Let me one day \/ A small child\u2019s happy summer memory.\u201d Vic invoked the film franchise that inspired his artwork on Primordia: \u201cThis is just fantastic in every way. It feels a bit like the sequel to Aliens to me\u2014punchier and more action oriented than the original, but told in the same universe and the same world, with the same vision at its core.\u201d James was simple and direct: \u201cExciting!\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

As you can see from the poster, and as we\u2019ve talked about before<\/a>, this is a Marauder Film project, not a Wormwood Studios one. Our game is a jumping-off point, but Marauder is not simply making a non-interactive version of Mark\u2019s story with an HD version of Vic\u2019s graphics. Cinema has its own imperatives and strengths, and Bastiaan\u2019s team members have their own distinctive talents as storytellers and artists, even if they don\u2019t have a coder like James!<\/p>\n

We hope Marauder Film brings new players to the game we made so many years ago, and it\u2019s fascinating to watch another team explore and build upon our creation. We\u2019ll keep you posted as we learn more.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early today, Marauder Film exercised its option to purchase the rights to make a cinematic adaptation of Primordia! It\u2019s another major step forward, even if the final destination is still a good ways off. This journey started five years ago with an email from Bastiaan Koch (head of Marauder Film) to Mark Yohalem (Primordia\u2019s writer\/designer) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}