Payday goes live-action. Once more. In what I’ve determined is the prophesied second coming of 2013’s Payday: The Internet Collection (opens in new tab), developer Starbreeze is as soon as extra committing to a filmic adaptation of its well-liked heist-em-up. In an announcement launched earlier right this moment, the studio introduced that it had entered right into a partnership with Stockholm Syndrome (opens in new tab), an LA-based manufacturing firm, with the objective of creating a Payday venture “for TV or movie”.
As I famous earlier than, it isn’t the primary time Starbreeze has translated Payday for the silver display (or, nicely, YouTube). The corporate dipped its toe into celluloid waters an entire decade in the past with the net sequence it made to advertise the discharge of Payday 2 (opens in new tab), though I believe a full-fledged “TV or movie” venture would possibly get a barely larger finances than these shorts.
Starbreeze has made loads of live-action trailers (opens in new tab) for the sequence through the years, too, so I suppose it is solely pure it’d ultimately resolve to greenlight a full-on manufacturing effort.
Stockholm Syndrome CEO Greg Lipstone pointed on the current success of different videogame diversifications as proof that there is by no means been a greater time to make a Payday present or movie. “The timing could not be extra excellent,” he stated, “Simply have a look at the success of The Final of Us, Halo, and The Witcher, all based mostly on well-known video games”.
I am not solely positive that is the way it works, however I suppose I love the passion. Plus, you’d hope a Payday adaptation would not infuriate sport followers fairly as a lot because the Halo TV present has (not that the outrage stopped it from being extremely popular certainly (opens in new tab)).
The ink’s barely dry on the settlement between Stockholm Syndrome and Starbreeze, so it will be some time earlier than we’re all buying and selling leaked pictures of the Payday set the way in which we have been doing for Amazon’s Fallout present (opens in new tab), however you possibly can anticipate Payday to grace TV and/or cinema screens sooner or later sooner or later. Till then, would possibly as nicely watch the net sequence once more.
