City of Heroes

Citation :

Tom DeSanto Has A City of Heroes!
Written by Stephanie Sanchez
Wednesday, 06 June 2007
IESB good buddy and producer extraordinaire Tom DeSanto has acquired the rights to the multi-player superhero video game "City of Heroes."

Variety announced today,

After tackling giant robots, "Transformers" producer Tom DeSanto is turning his attention to superheroes, securing the rights to NCsoft and Cryptic Studio's vidgame "City of Heroes."

Plan is to adapt the massively multiplayer online role-playing game into a live-action feature and then transition it to television in some form.

Project revolves around a group of superheroes who live in Paragon City and must team in order to fight an invasion of aliens known as the Rikti.

In the game, players design their own superhero character and pay a monthly fee of $14.99 to battle supervillains, aliens, madmen and other criminals. An expansion of the game also enables players to create their own villainous character.

"City of Heroes" first bowed at retailers in 2004 and turned into a franchise, spawning sequel "City of Villains" and a comicbook series published by Top Cow Prods.

NCsoft also produces the games "Lineage," "Auto Assault" and "Guild Wars."

DeSanto sparked to the project because it offered "one-stop shopping" for characters and plots. "You also haven't seen a big superheroes vs. aliens movie," he said. "I see this as the next big superhero franchise."

DeSanto produced "Transformers," with Don Murphy and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, setting up the project at DreamWorks after securing the rights from toymaker Hasbro. He also exec produced the first two "X-Men" films at Fox.

Le concept est pas top top quand même... enfin bon De Santo sait y faire alors...

Mais putain les gars vous voulez pas un scénar un peu plus "intéressant"? Non parce que les super héros qui vivent dans un ville au doux nom de Paragon City et qui doivent s'unir pour combattre des E.T... Enfin bon cest pas Glop glop quoi!

Arfff les gars...

Si ca se trouve les mecs vont finir par adapter les persos des boites de corn Flakes? Genre FROSTI et toute la clique?

disons que l'avantage quand tu as un concept de super héros de ce genre c que a l'instar d'un Transformers t'as un une clientele déja établie qui veut juste finalement les looks et les situations ( puisque y a pas grand chose d'autre a se fouttre sous la dents ), tu as plus de libertés pour faire ton truc (dans les limites de ce qui est vendable )et pas etre prisonnier d'un Avi Arad.


Donc de la t'appelles bay et tu fais le trip ca péta avec des superhéros vs des Aliens dans les airs et t'as le blockbuster qui a l'air trop de tuer sa race de l'année 2012