It Takes Two, the hit co-op action game from EA and Hazelight Studios, is being turned into a movie. That's according to a new report from Variety, which states that several production studios are now involved in the project.
Seven Bucks Productions, co-founded by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Dany Garcia, is onboard, as is Amazon Studios and dj2 Entertainment — the latter of which is also involved with the Sonic the Hedgehog films. Speaking of Sonic, the writers on the SEGA movies will be lending their talents to this project too. Josef Fares, director of the game, is signed on to executive produce the adaptation, as is The Rock himself. He may also star in the film, although that's not official at this point.
We probably won't see the end result for a long while, but it could make for an entertaining big screen flick. The game sees divorcing parents Cody and May forced to work together through various fantastical settings, and we can already picture how some scenes will translate. We would argue, however, that the game's strengths are its co-op first design and ever-evolving gameplay — not its story or characters.
It's also worth noting that the overtly passionate Fares was a filmmaker before he turned his attention to games, so he'll presumably bring some of that know-how to the project too. It'll be an interesting one at any rate. Are you up for watching an It Takes Two movie? Stick together in the comments section below.
[source variety.com, via eurogamer.net]
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There could only be one subtitle used for this story. Well played though 🤣
Of course The Rock is in it.
What isn't he in lately ? lol
Is there really any demand for all these games to be turned into movies?
I fear this will be thrown to the scrapheap of the other 99% of video game movies which were trash.
I mean The Rock can make any film good. Skyscraper anyone? 😂
Yeah, the story was TERRIBLE. Not quite sure how this is going to translate to screen.
@itsfoz Come on, you're exaggerating a bit. Sure, it fell a bit flat but it wasn't THAT bad. For me, the problem was the chemistry between the couple.
@itsfoz The story is functional. The scenario is interesting, so all that would be missing to make a decent movie would be a decent script.
@Divergent95
Yeah, very awkward storytelling, but that's my only complaint. Could work very well in a movie format with real actors though
And the Rock better be one of the bad guys
I’m sure Amazon will do it justice and have an annoying condescending woman as the joint lead just like in the game.
This will bomb. I’m almost certain Rocky was approached with this under the pretence of you can work on the game of the year.
Let’s just hope this is not the game to movie he’s starring in.
Beyond tired of the rock.
His best role was in the mummy as the cg scorpion
Great gameplay but what a cheesefest 🤮
I'd prefer a Brothers: Tale of Two Sons film. Starring the Rock and Vin Diesel as the brothers, of course.
I haven’t played the game, but I wouldn’t have considered this to be the next big movie crossover project. But then again, we do have two Mortal Kombat movies for some strange reason.
I haven’t played the game but surely the appeal of the game was the coop play and working together? How would this personal connection be played over a film, especially with the Rock staring. He’s not a bad actor but he plays the same character in every film and never seems to create a connection with the viewers he’s just in the film.
Movie coming… hmm ok why not, could be fun
The rock also involved… Ohhh sh***t I don’t need this. Can waste my time with other things.
Don't see how the Rock could be in this, dad is more like a Tom Arnold or John Goodman type. I could see Channing Tatum doing it I suppose, guy co-starred w/ a dog.
It's a whirlwind adventure love story that takes place by shrinking down a couple and having them travel around their property, it's basically already been a kids movie like a dozen times, so 1 more won't hurt. Can't imagine it being live action, that wouldn't work, think Dreamworks or Pixar.
I do recommend they end in the snow globe w/ the couple reconciling, the game went weird and downhill after that, the entire last music section was awful. I know it has it's place in the narrative but that place should have been much earlier in the game.
@stu123 I'm in the minority with you, he's absolutely terrible.
Yuck, to all of it.
Dwayne Johnson? Can't wait for the jungle scenes!
Normally, I would say that 1) it's a video game movie and 2) It Takes Two didn't really have a very good story in the first place but...
I don't know, The Rock helped make Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle be way, way better than it had any right to be.
@GoodGame I thought the same… are there no other actors?!?!
Really sticking it to take two 😂😂
Can you watch this alone or will you need to watch it co op
I'll happily watch this movie, since I'll never find someone to play the video game with.
The story was a dead weight dragging down the game that was deeply unfunny and a bit cruel combining that with the cheesey shallow take on divorce of a Hallmark film.
This is of course subjective, so here is an actual line of dialogue from the game to help clue in how you'd respond to it.
"You don't have a relationship, you have a relation-sh**"
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