James Wan‘s Atomic Monster manufacturing firm has acquired the rights to develop Sport Award-nominated indie title “Pacific Drive” right into a TV collection.
Created by Cassandra Dracott from Ironwood Studios, “Pacific Drive” is a retropunk-style driving and survival sport set to an experimental digital music soundtrack that challenges gamers to flee a surreal and deserted exclusion zone with their automotive as their solely companion at nighttime world.
“Pacific Drive” was nominated for Finest Debut Indie Sport on the 2024 Sport Awards Dec. 12 and received Finest Gameplay on the 2024 BIG Competition, the place it was additionally nominated for Finest Sport. In June, the sport was added to the instructed studying checklist for the Nebula Awards by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Affiliation.
Wan and Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Rob Hackett will government produce the TV collection adaptation of the challenge together with Jeff Ludwig of The Menagerie Productions. The potential collection is just not but hooked up to a particular community or streaming platform.
Headed up by Hackett, Atomic Monster’s TV division not too long ago debuted horror thriller collection “Teacup” on Peacock. Upcoming initiatives embrace the espionage thriller “Copenhagen,” starring and government produced by Simu Liu for Peacock, and “Obsession,” based mostly on Catherine Ryan Howard’s best-selling novel “56 Days,” for Amazon’s Prime Video.
Moreover, Wan’s Atomic Monster is at the moment creating TV initiatives “1313,” a horror reboot of “The Munsters,” a “Robocop” collection for Amazon and a live-action adaptation of “Gargoyles” for Disney+.
