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EXCLUSIVE: British videogame Atomfall is coming to TV, courtesy of Rebellion and Two Brothers Pictures, nan shaper of The Assassin and Fleabag.
The crippled hails from indie workplace Rebellion, which has teamed up pinch nan Two Brothers explanation for nan TV adaptation. A bid is now being worked up. The crippled is simply a captious and commercialized success. It won Best British Game astatine this month’s BAFTA Game Awards, while complete 3.7M players person explored nan world of Atomfall since it launched past year.
A very UK return connected nan post‑apocalyptic genre, Atomfall leans heavy into classical British sci‑fi and besides draws connected people horror. It is group wrong a walled and militarized Quarantine Zone successful England’s Lake District established aft a atomic incident. The extracurricular world is assumed to beryllium continuing arsenic normal. Life wrong nan zone, meanwhile, has deteriorated into thing acold stranger. The crippled follows a protagonist who wakes up wrong nan Quarantine Zone pinch nary representation of really they arrived.
Atomfall was developed from an original thought by Jason Kingsley, who co-founded Rebellion pinch his relative Chris Kingsley. The crippled was inspired by a real‑life disaster astatine nan Windscale atomic works successful 1957, which remains nan worst-ever atomic mishap successful nan UK.
The bid is being developed arsenic a co-production betwixt Two Brothers and Rebellion. Emmy and Golden Globe winning writer-producers, and Two Brothers founders, Harry and Jack Williams, will constitute nan TV drama.
“Atomfall has specified a unique British reside and setting, and it’s been a existent joyousness processing it alongside nan Rebellion squad – particularly arsenic 2 brothers moving alongside 2 brothers (Jason and Chris Kingsley),” they said. “There’s thing very breathtaking astir expanding this strange, unsettling communicative for television.”
Jason Kingsley, CEO and Creative Director astatine Rebellion, and Chris Kingsley CBE, Co-founder and CTO astatine nan company, will beryllium executive producers connected nan show. “Harry and Jack demonstrated a clear emotion for Atomfall and talked astir their ain peculiar endings erstwhile they were playing nan game,” they said. “It is ever breathtaking to activity pinch group who stock nan aforesaid passion for creating and telling awesome stories and we are judge that this business will thief to present a tv bid that will delight fans of nan crippled and beyond.”
Alex Mercer (Doctor Who) will exec nutrient for Two Brothers and Ben Smith (Rogue Trooper) For Rebellion.
Two Brothers is portion of All3Media and its credits see Fleabag, Liar, Baptiste and The Assassin. Sniper Elite outfit Rebellion, meanwhile, useful crossed games, publishing, and is ramping up successful movie and TV.
It owns nan legendary 2000 AD comic book, location of Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, Sláine and Zenith among different classical characters and stories. It besides has its ain workplace installation successful Oxfordshire, England. The first footage of Duncan Jones’ movie adjustment of Rogue Trooper has conscionable been released. Atomfall marks a awesome foray into nan world of TV series, wherever videogame adaptations of TV, pinch videogame adaptations presently successful vogue, including The Last of Us and Fallout.
