Games based on the Saw films and Prison Break: The Conspiracy were in development when it also tied up a publishing deal with Warner Bros. Each had been rushed to meet the release of the associated film, and that shone through.īrash needed more film licenses to build on them, and entered into multiple deals. Latest issues of our independent film magazines now available at .ukĪlthough Alvin sold over 300,000 copies, the critical response was poor to these three games. A deal with Fox Studios led to the company rapidly developing three games in its first year of existence – Alvin & Chipmunks (based on the 2007 part-animated movie), Jumper: Griffin’s Story and Space Chimps.įILM STORIES & FILM STORIES JUNIOR MAGAZINES With $400 million in financing through private equity and leveraged debt, the Wall Street Journal argued it was “risky” for Brash to focus almost exclusively on games based around film intellectual properties. Tull was a gamer but none of the other senior executives, including CEO Mitch Davis, had much prior involvement in the video game industry. This was particularly bad news for publishers Brash Entertainment and developers Factor 5, who were each working on the unfinished ‘Blue Steel’ game.Ī bit of background. Brash Entertainment LLC sounds like it came from a Hollywood script, but with Legendary Films’ Thomas Tull among the founders (Legendary having backed Superman Returns) it set up shop in 2007 with an office on Sunset Boulevard – prime Hollywood real estate.
For that movie, of course, Brandon Routh pulled on the cape and the blue tights, and the plan was for a sequel to the film where director Bryan Singer infamously said he wanted to go all ‘ Wrath Of Khan‘ with it.īut when the sequel film was abandoned – ultimately in favour of Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel – a video game tie-in was cancelled with it. But the one we’re look at here is 2006’s Superman Returns. Several films have been developed yet cancelled, and a few video games too. Perhaps more so than any other superhero, a project involving Superman seems to be fraught with ‘challenges’.
UPCOMING SUPERMAN GAME FULL
That seems to be DC flat-out admitting that they're about to kill the Kal-El Superman, harkening back to Jon Kent's future knowledge of his father's death - and even directly invoking Doomsday, the villain who killed Kal-El way back in the mega-popular 1992-93 event ' The Death and Return of Superman.When plans were afoot to make Superman Returns 2, a full Superman video game was also greenlit – and here’s the story of what went wrong. (We weren’t kidding about that Doomsday comparison, folks)."
"And it's one that the future-visiting Jon has warned he won’t survive. " will likely be Superman's biggest, most challenging battle since he first crossed fists with Doomsday," DC warns.
The publisher's accompanying text with the preview pages calls back directly to the last time Superman died, painting a fairly vivid picture of what readers should expect. Speaking of Superman's classic enemies, DC recently lent even more credence to the ominous nature of Kal-El's fate with an early look at pages from November 12's Action Comics #1036, the issue that kicks off Superman's mission on Warworld. Jon will also put a new twist on one of his dad's classic rivalries in the upcoming Superman: Son of Kal-El 2021 Annual, in which he squares off with Superman's iconic archenemy, Lex Luthor.Īll of this seems to be setting up Jon Kent as the true inheritor of his father's legacy as Superman, similar to the way Wally West became the permanent Flash when his uncle Barry Allen died in Crisis on Infinite Earths.Īnd not for nothing, Jon and Wally recently connected, with Wally offering to mentor Jon as the successor of one of the world's greatest heroes. And of course, during DC Fandome, the publisher officially changed Superman's motto from its most widely recognized version of "Truth, Justice, and the American Way," to "Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow" - a slogan seemingly designed specifically to match Jon Kent's superhero philosophy of trying to materially improve the world in ways only someone with the powers and profile of Superman can.
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