Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner‘s production house The Tornate Company have bought the rights for another game-to-film adaptation “MechWarrior,” according to joystiq.com. Last we heard, Dean Devlin — who produced Godzilla — was developing the project but nothing ever came from it. The source also reports that Michael Gordon (writer of 300 and G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra ) has been hired to write the script.
It sounds like any Mechwarrior movie is still a long way from completion but with the financial success of the Transformers films perhaps Hollywood will be more interested in such a project.
MechWarrior Full Debut Trailer [HD]:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhOvbfyyJw&feature=fvw[/youtube]
Why did you include the old MechWarrior Online teaser trailer?
It’s not a debut trailer, has nothing to do with the movie, and in reality the only thing from that teaser that made it into MechWarrior online was the UAV…