Known for their inventive videogame series, stemming off Half-Life and resulting in such creations as Portal, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike and Left 4 Dead, Valve is beginning to step into the feature film business. Their Steam distribution service is currently making available their first feature-length film with the fitting Indie Game: The Movie. Now, Variety reports that the company is stepping into the production side.
They’ve teamed with Shane Acker, coming off his Tim Burton-produced animation 9, as well as the Irish outfit Brown Bag Films to develop a new feature titled Deep. In the action adventure, Acker continues in a post-apocalyptic landscape, this time following Wwiii with a setting underwater in fallen ships. The film will follow “Sullivan, a captain of a nuclear sub. He makes contact with a splinter group of superior scientific intelligence, the Wayfarers, which has the power to save the earth. But that could come at a terrible cost.
They’ve teamed with Shane Acker, coming off his Tim Burton-produced animation 9, as well as the Irish outfit Brown Bag Films to develop a new feature titled Deep. In the action adventure, Acker continues in a post-apocalyptic landscape, this time following Wwiii with a setting underwater in fallen ships. The film will follow “Sullivan, a captain of a nuclear sub. He makes contact with a splinter group of superior scientific intelligence, the Wayfarers, which has the power to save the earth. But that could come at a terrible cost.
- 6/11/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Shane Acker ("9") is teaming with Ireland's Brown Bag Films, along with "Half-Life" and "Portal" video game series developers Valve, on Acker's new action adventure feature "Deep" reports Variety.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, what's left of humanity shelters undersea in the hulks of sunken ships. Sullivan, a captain of a nuclear sub, makes contact with a splinter group of superior scientific intelligence who have the power to save the earth - one that could come at a terrible cost.
Jack Barton Mitchell penned the script for the $18.7 million feature which Darragh O'Connell and Gregory R. Little will produce.
Valve's tools and technologies, namely its Source engine, are being used for real-time rendering, editing, simplified character animation and economical lighting for the feature.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, what's left of humanity shelters undersea in the hulks of sunken ships. Sullivan, a captain of a nuclear sub, makes contact with a splinter group of superior scientific intelligence who have the power to save the earth - one that could come at a terrible cost.
Jack Barton Mitchell penned the script for the $18.7 million feature which Darragh O'Connell and Gregory R. Little will produce.
Valve's tools and technologies, namely its Source engine, are being used for real-time rendering, editing, simplified character animation and economical lighting for the feature.
- 6/11/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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