Let’s take a minute and rewind to August of last year, when the post-apocalyptic shooter The Drowning released on iOS with the promise of making full use of the iPhone’s innards to deliver visuals that would be about on par with console games. It’s an intriguing concept, a mobile horror game with console quality graphics.
With the exception of a few games, like Resident Evil 4 and the fantastic Dead Space mobile game, I haven’t found many horror titles that have been able to keep me hooked for more than a few minutes. Even still, it looked impressive enough for me to give it a try.
After spending a couple hours in its monster-infested world, I decided The Drowning has a lot of style, but it lacked substance. At its core, it’s a wave survival game with free-to-play mechanics that’s light on story and heavy on mildly creepy creatures to shoot.
Apparently, that’s enough to warrant a film adaptation. As Deadline reports, the game will soon move from the small screen to one that’s substantially bigger. It’s being written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt (Olympus Has Fallen and The Expendables 3), and produced by Ted Field, Mike Weber, and Michael Napoliello of Radar Pictures.
Tom Van Dell and Jason Moskowitz are executive producing.
The only thing that has me cautiously optimistic about this is its eco-horror plot, which follows “a deep-sea oil-drilling accident that causes ancient micro-organisms to be released into the water supply of an island town off the Seattle coast.”
