Metroid Movie!!! News

It seems that a videogame franchise can’t go about its daily business these days without talk of movie adaptations; the latest, none other then Nintendo’s Metroid.<br><br>Variety claims that Zide/Perry Entertainment has acquired the feature rights to the franchise; the pair have previously worked on American Pie 1&2 and Final Destination.<br><br>Currently no writers or director have been attached to the project, however producers Warren Zide and Craig Perry are currently searching for the right people.<br><br>It’s claimed that the story will stay faithfully close to the plot offered by the games; set in a once peaceful galaxy, which has its prosperity shattered when a startling discovery is made. On a routine scanning operation, a surveillance crew discover a new airborne life form - the Metroid. Able to engulf other living beings, feed from their energy and multiple at a deadly pace; a female bounty hunter going by the name of Sarus Arran is dispatched by the Galactic Federation to eliminate the threat. However she soon realises a greater threat; that Space Pirates have captured a Metroid and are planning to build an unstoppable army from the Metroid species.<br><br>Hopefully the franchise will be given the integrity it deserves if the project does get green lighted; we’ve already seen one classic Nintendo franchise butchered and we certainly don’t want to see another go the same way.<br><br>We’ll have more information on this as it becomes available.<br>