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‘Walking Dead’ Creator Wants to Make a Movie Out of the Teen Thriller ‘Oxenfree’
A few days from now, the skies will bubble and split apart so the supernatural thriller Oxenfree can spill out into our world and bring about the all-consuming darkness of an endless night — or it’ll seem that way to me anyway, as I sit at my desk, my eyes glued to a monitor.
Oxenfree is the first game to come out of Night School Studios, a developer founded in 2014 by industry veterans who wanted “to create a game filled with wonder, danger, and humor.” I might’ve shoved “gorgeous” in there somewhere, because it sure is pretty.
Those videos are a sampling of the creative potential that Night School’s partner and Walking Dead creator Skybound is intent to mine. There are more episodes in this behind-the-scenes web-series arriving later this week, and, in the much more distant future, we may even see a film adaptation.
Oxenfree releases on January 15 for PC and Xbox One.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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