Daniel Vávra, director of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance franchise, is leaving sport improvement to concentrate on making a Kingdom Come: Deliverance film.
In an interview with Czech website CzechCrunch (by way of VGC), studio head Martin Frývaldský revealed that Vávra was stepping away from growing Warhorse Studios’ subsequent sport to concentrate on Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s big-screen adaptation.
“Dan has a brand new function. That’s the creation of the Kingdom Come film,” Frývaldský mentioned (by way of machine translation). “We’ve been transferring the Kingdom Come model away from video video games for a while now. To date we’ve got been in comics, live shows, and tourism, however the movie has attracted us probably the most. That’s the reason Dan and I are engaged on getting it onto the display or the large display. There’s additionally a draft script.”
“I am positive folks will marvel if that is some type of breakup with Warhorse,” he added, “No, quite the opposite, Dan himself needed to maneuver on. He made three video games that had been a world success, he has been eager to strive one thing completely different for a very long time. Getting Kingdom Come to the display […] within the subsequent few years is one other milestone that we wish to obtain, and that’s Dan’s new function. You will not see him within the workplace each day anymore, however in a broader sense he’s nonetheless a part of Warhorse.”
Requested for the most recent on these plans to adapt Kingdom Come: Deliverance for the large display, Frývaldský mentioned: “For a very long time, folks had been round us who want to make a movie of KCD, however then Covid got here and the whole lot fell asleep. Now, after the discharge of the second sport, we’ve got returned to the thought with a lot larger drive.
“We really feel the curiosity from the movie world, negotiations are already underway. We do not simply wish to promote the rights, we would like the movie to be what we think about it to be.”
Frývaldský recommended that Vávra’s new job title could possibly be one thing like transmedia director because the workforce pushes to increase the franchise past video games.
The primary Kingdom Come: Deliverance online game, launched in 2018, was a smash hit, promoting over 10 million copies. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 got here out final yr and has up to now offered over 5 million copies.
IGN’s Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 evaluation returned a 9/10. We mentioned: “Armed with wonderful melee fight and an distinctive story, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is one half sequel and one half coronation, bringing plenty of the unique’s concepts to fruition.”
In the event you’re questioning simply how a lot has modified in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 for the reason that sport launched in early 2025, we have got you lined.
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