Dead Island recently managed to make a bit of a stir with its gory and well edited trailer, and now the franchise is riding high on awareness. While rumors were that the rights to the movie IP have been bought, publisher Deep Silver denies this is the case, despite “a massive amount of interest.”
“We are looking for quality above all else for a movie based on Dead Island. We want to do it the right way as film realizations of games (or vice versa) usually fail to deliver what the fans were looking for. We will not go down this route with Dead Island. Deep Silver profoundly believes in the quality and value of its Dead Island IP,” says Klemens Kundratitz, CEO of Deep Silver’s parent company Koch Media. “We would therefore be honored to work with someone who already has a proven track record with blockbuster movies.”
