Snyder game for EA joystick stint
FROM VARIETY: 300 director takes on videogames
By Ben Fritz of Variety -- Video Business, 9/29/2008
SEPT. 29 | FROM VARIETY: Zack Snyder is the latest helmer to play in the videogame world.The 300 director has signed a deal to develop three original games for Electronic Arts, the nation’s largest third-party publisher.
Pact is very similar to one made by EA with Steven Spielberg in 2005. Their first collaboration, a puzzle game for the Nintendo Wii called Boom Blox, was released in the spring to rave reviews but modest sales.
Like Spielberg, Snyder will work with EA’s Los Angeles studio in Playa Vista to produce his games. EA will own the intellectual properties, but under the deal the publisher may turn some or all of them into films that will be produced by Snyder’s Cruel & Unusual Films banner.
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