Ubisoft's Film and Television department have just announced a deal with their 2020 Film & Television Fellow recipient, Annabel Seymour (pictured above), to secure a script for a feature film called "REPLAY". In the film, a video game reviewer (who has yet to be cast) is given the opportunity to live out her dating life as if it were a video game.
They don't say which video game, though, so we're hoping it's more visual novel and less, you know, Dark Souls - although we've certainly had some Dark Souls-y dates in our time, like the one where the woman on the other side of the restaurant table was a pile of bones and hair, Gravelord Nito-style.
There's not a great deal more information than what we've already told you - this is a pitch in its early days, after all - but we're sure we'll hear more about it in the months to come.
[source businesswire.com]
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Oh man thatβs incredible. A little close to home for our dear writers but still! Reminds me a lot of My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy.
@Beatrice indeed.
I will keep my eye on this tho
What do you mean this isn't an April fools joke
What could possibly go wrong?
I don't get it. But sure why not? I guess someone out in the world has an interest in this thing.
Is it April 1st already?
I know cinemas have complained that they have no movies to reopen with....but hopefully this isn't the one.
Well this seems incredibly niche.
Her name? Cathy Black, the new reviewer for notorious British website GameboxLife.
Soon to be featured in articles such as "Biggest Box Office Flops of 2021" and "Most Poorly Reviewed Films of the 21st Century (So Far!)".
Why? Why not make a game or movie about a female dev making a game or starting a game company. Nope terrible romcom it is... I am sure every bi/hetero female gamer was just waiting on this./s
Facepalm to infinity.
When Ubisoft cannot outcringe itself on an E3 stage, they find another way.
Nature is truly fascinating.
But will it be available in 3D and 4D?
Sounds super hot, I'm in
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One for video game reviewers by the sounds.
Absolutely zero interest in this.
Welp here we go.
Wait, Ubisoft has a film & television department?!?
@roy130390 : And smell-o-vision.
Because everybody loves the smell of game rooms and pheromones!
" given the opportunity to live out her dating life as if it were a video game. They don't say which video game"
That sounds like an invitation to riff.
What if her dating life is like Super Mario Bros? Always waiting for a man to fix her problem.
What if her dating life is like Pokemon? Polyamory.
What if her dating life is like Tetris? Just line up the long piece and... Nah.
@OrangeSoda that got me laughing pretty hard, thank you, my teacher sure looked at me weird tho
They should model on how most people play The Sims. So the series finale can be a pool party where the ladders all mysteriously disappear while everyone is swimming.
absolutely nothing good can come out of this.
Let me guess, she falls in love with the silent type, gets sent on a crazy impossible suicide mission (by some damn princess) to save the world, fails but comes back as a ghost only to find out that the same princess is now the only person who shows up in the love of her lifeβs dreams and constantly is begging to be saved and theirs nothing the protagonist can do about it at this point because she canβt control the laser-shooting elephant any more.
Presumably being Ubisoft they'll release a rough cut of the film to cinemas and not managing a final cut until four months later by which point it will be heavily discounted?
It's OK, Kate. We all love you.
What if her dating life was like Among Us? Murder-mystery intrigue.
What if her dating life is like Star Fox? Constantly shot down.
What if her dating life is like Sonic the Hedgehog? ... On second thought, that joke is too easy.
Or maybe it's like my playthrough of Dark Souls where you want to launch an attack but chug another bottle by mistake.
I hope itβs full of bugs and micro transactions
I hope this has a harem ending where you find out she slept with multiple guys
No but seriously what if it's a psychological character drama about a woman who slowly becomes way to invested in a dating sim and starts accepting it as reality so it affects her day to day life and connections to her friends and colleagues
She will live her life out through the animus of assassins creed and kill all the dates that go badly.
Starting to think this is an early April fools to get the jump on the world.
The coolest video games I would love to see with a female protagonist is Bayonetta or Samus from Metroid.
Smell like april fool news.
This is probably an April Fools joke. If this is a real thing however, I can't say I'm too interested in this. These types of movies.. aren't really my thing.
Is this one of those stories where the girl wakes up to discover that she now has to converse with her classmates via dialogue tree choices only she can see and can therefore build affection points with them? Or is this one of those stories where a girl reincarnates or transmigrates into a dating sim game she was playing but in some role other than the heroine?
I've seen a bunch of various manga/anime and fan fiction with one of these premises, but it would be interesting to see either one turned into a full-length live action movie as long as it's done right.
Man, now I really want to see the first arc of "My Life As a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom" adapted into a live action movie.
Unlucky in love but lucky in loot boxes?
@TheFrenchiestFry Well, it's an MMORPG rather than a dating sim, but otherwise that's most of "And You Thought There is Never a Girl Online?" in a nutshell.
Twist: her dating life is like Mario. (Dead.)
Sounds like a Hallmark movie.
THAT'S IT
We're arranging therapy for you, @KateGray! Nintendo Life needs to make this standard for regular staff!
Ubisoft eh?
Probably has microtransactions to get her dream partner.
Dragons Dogma! Oh wait, wrong company.
This is going to be a cringefest. I'm sure of it...
I hope she will be referred to as "they" in the movie.
Can't wait for the battle royale for this one!
Did you guys really put that 6/10 not bad graphic behind her?
We don't know the actors gender yet, so go easy on the personal pronoun usage
Huh... Early April's Fools post?
This has to be a joke, because it's terribly unfunny to think that this might actually be a thing. shudders
@nessisonett
Thanks for the recommendation. I will definitely give this a watch.
@Benji80 I think you're in the wrong meeting
@KateGray maybe not Dark Souls, but imagine if they pick Doki Doki Literature Club, now that would be crazy/awesome!
@Wilforce I think they actually made one about game designers. It was, as you would expect, terrible.
@FredsBodyDouble I didn't see that one... Gonna see if I can find it. I saw one that was about app designers interning for a Twitter-esk company and the CEO falls in love with an intern, is pressured by a business associate into stealing her app, and the CEO quits his job to marry her.
EDIT:. Omg... It's "The 12th Date of Christmas" - I have seen it. I didn't even realize they were game designers, I thought they were just doing a scavenger hunt.
@Wilforce you mean there is another one about app designers that is not Mingle All The Way?
Wow. This has to end well. Cameos by Alisha just to make it everything we expect Ubisoft to provide?
@Ryu_Niiyama "Why nor make a game about a female dev making a game or starting a game company"
That was probably plan A until the lawyers pointed out Jade could sue them.
should be called "NOTICE ME!!!!!"
I only ever dated two, severely autistic girls myself. And they constantly kept stalking me as they were overly attached ex-girlfriends. When we dated, we would have some really fun moments together but we often argue.
They wanted to marry me so badly even though I want to stay single for a while.
I am an autistic gamer myself (Asperger's Syndrome) and I usually can't impress girls except for those two stalkers because of my poor social skills and below-average looks.
If my dating life was a video game, it's probably a stealth game with me trying to get away from my stalkers while finding my own true love.
@Benji80 I was here first, kid.
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