As in case your games-to-movie adaptation plate wasn’t already teetering dangerously with the whole lot piled on it up to now, Lionsgate has introduced it is engaged on a movie model of developer Purple Barrels’ survival horror collection, Outlast.
The unique Outlast launched again in 2013, casting gamers as journalist Miles Upshur as he investigated the infamous Mount Large Asylum. Its successfully terrifying (and sometimes fairly grim) mix of first-person night-vision exploration and frantic chase thrills rapidly attracted followers, resulting in a narrative growth the next yr and a full-blown sequel in 2017.
This second outing – which noticed gamers investigating a homicide within the Arizona desert – ramped up the violence and strenuous pursuit sequences to a barely much less constructive reception, nevertheless it nonetheless did effectively sufficient that Purple Barrels was capable of launch a 3rd sport, co-operative multplayer survival horror The Outlast Trials, into early entry final yr.
And now the collection is heading to the large display courtesy of Noticed studio Lionsgate, with horror movie producer Roy Lee (Unusual Darling, Late Night time with the Satan, Barbarian) main the cost. The undertaking has additionally drafted in J. T. Perry, who’s served as author for all Purple Barrel’s Outlast video games, to work on the film’s script.
“When Outlast launched in 2012, it modified the panorama of horror gaming,” Lee wrote in an announcement accompanying in the present day’s announcement, “setting a brand new normal for immersion within the style. Its deep, emergent lore has offered an ideal basis for creating a movie that delves into the psychological and bodily horrors on the core of the franchise. I’m excited to carry this distinctive world to life for each new viewers and the collection’ devoted followers.”
Particulars on the undertaking are restricted at this seemingly early juncture, however Deadline’s sources describe the film as a “modestly produced function within the spirit of 5 Nights at Freddy’s and Lionsgate’s personal The Strangers: Chapter 1 and Noticed films.”
Purple Barrel’s most up-to-date launch, The Outlast Trials, earned itself three out of 5 stars when Vikki Blake reviewed it for Eurogamer earlier this yr. “Whereas I screamed quite a bit,” Vikki wrote, “The Outlast Trials is not scary – no less than, not in the best way its predecessors had been. Whereas it apes some features of its unique premise courtesy of these oh-shit-he-saw-me cat-and-mouse chase sequences, the cloying environment has gone.”
