Masi Oka Creates Massively Multiplayer Movie The Defenders

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Monday, June 08, 2009 7:04 PM

From SlashFilm:


Masi Oka, Heroes star and big World of Warcraft fan, has come up with a story called The Defenders, about gamers who have to become real-world heroes, and Dreamworks has bought it. The project will be produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and DJ Caruso is in talks to direct. (He last directed the Kurtzman/Orci produced Eagle Eye.) How do you make a multiplayer game-inspired movie that isn't just a vague rehash of The Last Starfighter and Ender's Game? Answer after the jump.

THR reports that the story is about a bunch of gamers, mostly teenagers, who live all over the world but are united in the world of a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game like World of Warcraft. A real adventure brings them together and makes them into heroes as they have to live up to the characters they've created in the online world. OK, good starting point, but ...

Read more about it over at SlashFilm


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