'Painkiller' Videogame Coming to Big Screen

Published: August 2, 2007, 11:31 am

Tags: hell wars, hellwars, painkiller, video game, videogame

Filed under: Action & Adventure, Horror, Games and Game MoviesHey, I have an idea! Let's make a movie ... based on a video game! Seriously! I mean, the story and the characters are already done, so that's half our work right there. Plus we can use the game to design the sets, the props, everything! It'll be so easy! ... What's that? It's been done a couple dozen times already? And the result is nearly always disastrous? Hmph. That kinda stinks, because the game series I was thinking of would be perfect for a movie! It's called Painkiller, and...Ah. Someone beat me to it, huh? OK, so what's the deal? It's the story of an otherworldly assassin who must do battle with the forces of evil, right? Yep, so was mine. And of course it will be based on the PC game Painkiller and its Xbox sequel Hell Wars. (I knew I should have written this script last year!)Lame humor aside: Variety reports that Jon Berg & Todd Komarnicki's Guy Walks into a Bar production shingle has landed the rights

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