Duke Nukem movie in the works -your grandkids'll love it!
Good news, fans of fine films! Duke Nukem is (reportedly) making his way to the big screen, seemingly undeterred by the ten year journey back onto smaller ones. Scott Faye – the Hollywood producer bringing Max Payne to your local movieplex – tells Hollywood gaming reporter John Gaudiosi, "I'm working diligently at making a Duke Nukem movie scenario that will live up to the character and its import in the videogame world." Sounds to us like Faye is overestimating Duke's importance (outside of blogger joke fodder) in the world of video games.
It should come as little surprise that Faye's Depth Entertainment has a production deal with former 3D Realms-er Scott Miller's Radar Group – the two are working "on a number of new cross-media franchises that are being designed from the ground up as games and films." In addition to all that synergy, Faye is still hard at work on the movie adaptation of American McGee's Alice though – despite all of her enthusiasm for the project – Sarah Michelle Gellar is no longer involved. What we're trying to say here is that the guy has a lot on his plate and, considering what we can only imagine is an ancient curse preventing the Duke license from ever finding success again, we're not expecting the Duke Nukem movie to hit holo-screens until 2042.
... right alongside Duke Nukem Forever.
