Sony Pictures making "Console Wars" movie feat. Nintendo & SEGA (no NEC ??)

[handygrafx]

Atlantic Books' publisher, Toby Mundy has acquired CONSOLE WARS by Blake Harris, a riveting behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry. Atlantic will publish CONSOLE WARS: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation in August 2014.

Blake Harris draws on hundreds of interviews to present the first full account of this titanic corporate battle, which transformed computer games into a global industry that last year recorded sales of $50 billion (surpassing the film and music businesses combined).

Sony Pictures and Scott Rudin (Moneyball, The Social Network) are developing Console Wars as a feature film to be directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Knocked Up, Superbad). Rogen and Goldberg are also writing the screenplay. Harris is serving as Executive Producer, and is also co-directing a documentary on the same subject, with Rudin, Rogen and Goldberg producing as well.

http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/52436

Sony developing Console Wars movie

Sony Pictures and The Social Network producer are developing a documentary and a feature film about Sega vs. Nintendo.

by Emanuel Maiberg on February 23, 2014

Sony Pictures is developing a movie based on Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation.

Described as a “behind-the-scenes business thriller,” the book “chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry.”

The news comes via a press release published by Booktrade.info, announcing Atlantic Books acquired the rights from HarperCollins imprint It Books to publish Console Wars in the UK. But it also reveals that Sony Pictures and producer of The Social Network and Moneyball Scott Ruddin are developing it as a feature film. Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg (Knocked Up, Superbad), who also wrote the foreword to the book, are set to write the screenplay and direct, with author Blake Harris serving as executive producer.

Harris will also co-direct a documentary on the same subject, which Rudin, Rogan, and Goldberg will produce.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-developing-console-wars-movie/1100-6417914/


Just watch them not include or even mention NEC and TurboGrafx-16   

[Bernie]

f*ck em, its their loss.

[handygrafx]

^Indeed

[Tatsujin]

yeah, because everybody with only a bit of a brain knows, sega does what nintendon't, but only NEC does better than both together.. so fick 'em.

[GohanX]

This is going to be terrible.

[handygrafx]

Yeah it will, but at least it won't be a movie that's basically a very long commercial like The Wizard.

[KingDrool]

This is going to be terrible.

Why? If the guy behind The Social Network and Moneyball is behind it, I'm optimistic.

[Tatsujin]

This is going to be terrible.

Why? If the guy behind The Social Network and Moneyball is behind it, I'm optimistic.

it is gonna fail because not including NEC into the war :idea:

[GohanX]

Why? If the guy behind The Social Network and Moneyball is behind it, I'm optimistic.

He's only the producer. The writer and director is Seth Rogan.

[_joshuaTurbo]

Maybe we should email/message/tweet our asses off to the directors and producers to include some Turbografx stuff.  They can't completely ignore NEC.  Hell Sega was initially scared shitless that the Turbo would have the same success that the PCE had in the rising sun.

It's always a possibility....

[KingDrool]

But...it's not ABOUT NEC. It's specifically about Sega's attempt to take on Nintendo.

“chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry.”

It's not about the totality of the 16-bit console wars. Guys are letting your fanboyism get the best of you.

Still not sure why this "is going to suck". Sure, it could. But damn...cynicism.

[Opethian]

I mean when I think video games I think Seth Rogan

[Dicer]

At best NEC will get a throwaway mention...

[jperryss]

OH NOES! THIS ISN'T ABOUT NEC!

[Necromancer]

But...it's not ABOUT NEC. It's specifically about Sega's attempt to take on Nintendo.
......
It's not about the totality of the 16-bit console wars. Guys are letting your fanboyism get the best of you.

Then it's worthless.  Sega and Nintendo didn't compete in a vacuum, so ignoring the PCE opening the door for competition against Nintendo (and probably ignoring Sega's lackluster performance in Japan) means this film will give one sided answers and draw flawed conclusions.  It's like making a documentary about WWII and only looking at the US/UK battles against Germany/Japan and leaving out the Russians.

Besides, Rudin stretches the truth for entertainment value.  This might end up being good as a story (I think Rogan is pretty funny), but I doubt it'll be useful for anything other than a laugh.