Remedy Entertainment is teaming up with Annapurna Pictures to grow the satellite of Control. The astir factual portion of the quality is that Annapurna — which besides has an indie crippled publishing limb — volition beryllium backing fractional of the improvement fund for the previously-announced Control 2.
Beyond that, there’s the imaginable for Annapurna to make movie and TV adaptations of some Control and Alan Wake, which just got a long-awaited sequel past year. No circumstantial projects were announced. “Annapurna volition instrumentality the pb successful expanding Control and Alan Wake into caller amusement mediums,” the companies explicate successful a property release, “enabling Remedy to absorption connected the improvement of Control 2 and different upcoming games.”
Notably, the merchandise besides says that “Remedy volition clasp the afloat IP rights for Control and Alan Wake.” (The workplace purchased the rights for Control from steadfast 505 Games earlier this year.)
Remedy has immoderate way grounds with sneaking live-action moments into its games, and 2016’s Quantum Break was an absorbing workout successful merging TV and gaming. The studio’s games — Control and Alan Wake included — are besides heavy influenced by movie and TV, most notably the works of David Lynch. So the enlargement into these mediums makes a batch of sense, peculiarly arsenic the assorted worlds of amusement continue to crossover.
“The aboriginal of storytelling requires seamlessly integrating gaming, film, and television,” Annapurna CEO Megan Ellison explained successful a statement, “and this concern volition let america to research caller ways of bringing these narratives to life.”