PlayStation 2 favorite Shadow of the Colossus coming to the big screen

Published at 10:45 AM on April 10, 2009

By Muriel Vega

Courtesy of IGN.com

Following the trend of books-into-movies, movies-into-books, and CDs-into-musicals, Sony will adapt the 2005 PlayStation 2 game Shadow of the Colossus into a full-length feature, with The Scorpion King's Kevin Misher producing. Colossus is following in the footsteps of Dante's Inferno, which just got an X2 screenplay writer for the movie adaptation.

Colossus is set in a cursed wasteland populated with creatures named colossi. In the game, it's up to one man, Wander, to defeat 16 colossi and bring back a girl from the dead. Writer Justin Marks, responsible for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, is in charge of writing the screenplay, a challenge since the game itself presented very little dialogue.

No release date has been announced yet.

Related links:

Reviews: Dante’s Inferno

PlayStation 2's Shadow of the Colossus

Kotaku: Shadow of the Colossus Getting Big Screen Adaptation, All Hope Lost

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