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2022/06/16 15:40:37
Subject: ‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Moustache-twirling Princeps
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‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary Duke Nukem, the 1990s video game that helped popularize the first-person shooter genre, is getting the feature film treatment. Legendary Entertainment, the company behind Dune and the Godzilla movie series, has picked up the movie rights from Gearbox, with Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg on board to produce. Legendary will also produce, as will Jean-Julien Baronnet (Assassin’s Creed) of Marla Studios, which specializes in video game adaptations. Heald, Hurwitz and Schlossberg are producing via their banner, Counterbalance Entertainment. Launched with a self-titled debut in 1991 from Apogee Software, later called 3D Realms, Nukem is a $1 billion video game franchise that began life as a platform game for personal computers. When the third game, Duke Nukem 3D, came out in 1996, it became not only a critical hit but one that helped usher in the ubiquity of first-person games for years to come. After lying low for years in stalled development, the franchise came back in 2011, after Gearbox acquired 3D Realms, with Duke Nukem Forever. Nukem centers on its titular antihero, modeled on certain attributes from 1980s action movie protagonists (including catchphrases), who fights an alien invasion in Los Angeles. He travels from strip clubs and movie sets to moon bases and spaceships, dealing with mutated LAPD officers, women used in alien incubators, and the Cycloid Emperor. A search for a writer to tackle the material is underway. And while no director is on board, the door is open for one of the Counterbalance team to potentially sit behind the camera. With its over-the-top action movie stylings, it’s no surprise that Hollywood has been trying to adapt the game into a feature for quite a while. Various indie producers have attempted to develop Nukem, though none got very far. Gearbox had a Nukem project in development at Paramount with John Cena attached to star over four years ago, but that stalled out. That led Gearbox to become more deliberate in its Hollywood strategy for adaptations of its video games, and it now has one already on deck: Borderlands, directed by Eli Roth and featuring an all-star cast including Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart. Lionsgate is behind the movie, which is expected to be released later in 2022. The Counterbalance trio made a name for themselves in the franchise comedy spheres: Heald penned the Hot Tub Time Machine franchise for MGM while Hurwitz and Schlossberg first wrote then later took over directing the Harold & Kumar comedies. They reimagined The Karate Kid for a new generation with Cobra Kai, a runaway hit for Netflix that also garnered numerous Emmy nominations. Heald, Hurwitz and Schlossberg are the creators, executive producers and showrunners of the series, writing and directing many of the episodes. Counterbalance is repped by CAA. Heald is additionally repped by Behr Abramson, while Hurwitz and Schlossberg are repped by Hansen Jacobson. So no script or director - looks like it's heading for development hell...
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2022/06/16 16:20:04
Subject: ‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Huge Bone Giant
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beast_gts wrote:So no script or director - looks like it's heading for development hell...
Don't worry, it'll be released when it's done.
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2022/06/16 16:27:03
Subject: ‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Terrifying Doombull
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Wow, that's a heavily sanitized piece.
Nothing about how badly the 2011 reboot failed and the general heavy misogyny is just shoved under 'women as alien incubators.' Sorry, 'used in.'
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2022/06/16 16:33:36
Subject: Re:‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Huge Bone Giant
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Well, if this actually goes anywhere, it'll be funny to see how they deal with the "general heavy misogyny". Either they embrace the spirit of yesteryear and there's going to be a lot of fuss from one side, or they sanitize and misrepresent the character and there's going to be an equal amount of fuss from the other side.
It's really an interesting time to develop a Duke Nukem movie.
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Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
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2022/06/16 17:05:26
Subject: Re:‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Fixture of Dakka
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(yawn) Not the 1st time somebodies claimed to be making a Duke Nukem movie.....
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2022/06/16 17:05:52
Subject: ‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Blackclad Wayfarer
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2027 probably
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2022/06/16 17:45:13
Subject: Re:‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Savage Minotaur
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I feel like I've already watched something close enough to a Duke Nukem movie last year. It was an 8ish episode series called Peacemaker.
Take out the jingoistic nature of Peacemaker and reskin him in Duke's likeness and nobody would've noticed.
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2022/06/16 20:04:12
Subject: ‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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If they want to do this movie justice, they need to lean in HARD and accept that the protagonist is a bit of a meathead misogynist. I'd even be fine if he's seen that way by side characters and when he's not in the room.
I want gore, gore gore. I want the catchphrases. I want the wisecracking jokes. I want dark humor. I want to see Duke pooping down the neck of a decapitated alien boss. I want to see so many gunshots that it will make the tree-chopping scene from Predator look tame. I want to see tight-butt Latino men and big breasted women. I want to alien to die, unless it's cute. I want the good guy to win and the bad guy to die in the largest explosion the budget will allow.
Anything less would not be a Duke Nuke'm movie.
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2022/06/16 20:43:07
Subject: ‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Fixture of Dakka
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Not sure what you do with this. You either get Duke who won't likely work, or Johnny Bravo.
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2022/06/17 01:19:32
Subject: ‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Fixture of Dakka
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Yeah, there's no way to play this even remotely seriously. It pretty much HAS TO BE played as a comic parody of action movies, as Duke Nukem was a comic parody of action games.
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2022/06/17 06:49:17
Subject: Re:‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Fireknife Shas'el
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nels1031 wrote:I feel like I've already watched something close enough to a Duke Nukem movie last year. It was an 8ish episode series called Peacemaker.
Take out the jingoistic nature of Peacemaker and reskin him in Duke's likeness and nobody would've noticed.
Yeah, that’s pretty much the only way to approach this I think.
I’m a 90’s kid at heart, loved playing the original Duke Nukem back in the day, but I can’t imagine anyone having real serious nostalgia for this enough to warrant a film.
I’d rather we got a Worms film than this!
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2022/06/17 12:16:01
Subject: Re:‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Huge Bone Giant
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a) Why not both?
b) I'd watch it!
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Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
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2022/07/02 19:45:36
Subject: ‘Duke Nukem’ Movie in the Works From ‘Cobra Kai’ Creators, Legendary - Hollywood Reporter
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Thane of Dol Guldur
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Can't see it working in film form to be honest, especially not in the current circus entertainer world we currently live in.
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