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Ubisoft’s VR-based “Werewolves Within” Getting Film Adaptation
Ubisoft is developing a feature film based on the video game Werewolves Within, writes Variety.
The video game adaptations is a product of the company’s inaugural Women’s Film and Television Fellowship.
Mishna Wolff is one of the first two in the program and is now scripting a film adaptation of Ubisoft’s virtual reality game “Werewolves Within”.
Wolff’s decision to work on adapting “Werewolves Within” was a bit of a surprise to everyone involved.
“When I first came to Ubisoft there was another one I was interested in,” Wolff told the site. “But ‘Werewolves Within’ kept gnawing at me.”
The virtual reality game has players sitting in a village, trying to deduce which among them is the werewolf. The goal is to either guess who the werewolf is, or if you’re the werewolf, to convince the others it’s not you.
Wolff said that mix of social deduction and deliberate deceit lends itself to political satire set in a small town.
“It kept popping into my head,” she said. “It was just demanding I tell a story.”
She describes the movie-treatment of the game as a live-action horror comedy set in a small town where its residents play judge, jury, and executioner.
Boykin said she was a little surprised that they landed on “Werewolves Within,” but that the end result was a “slam dunk.”
Sophie Thatcher stars in Nicolas Winding Refn’s new genre movie Her Private Hell, and the official trailer has been released by distributor NEON today.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell will be released in theaters July 24 via Neon.
Watch the dazzling new trailer below, which blends sci-fi and giallo in vibrant style.
In the film, when a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father. Her quest collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell.
Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”), Charles Melton (“Riverdale”), Kristine Froseth (How to Blow Up a Pipeline), Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), and Diego Calva (Babylon) star.
The ensemble also includes Dougray Scott (Hitman), Aoi Yamada (Perfect Days), Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool & Wolverine), and Hidetoshi Nishijima (Shin Ultraman).
Nicolas Winding Refn directs Her Private Hell from a script he co-wrote with Esti Giordani (“Vida”). Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Don’t Look Now) composed the score.
Refn produces under his byNWR Originals banner. Executive producers include Takuma Takasaki, Kimberly Willming, Christina Erritzøe, and Lene Børglum.
Her Private Hell is rated ‘R’ for “some strong/bloody violence, sexual content, and language.”