Zack Snyder Signs 3-Game Deal with EA

September 29, 2008 by admin
Filed under: PSP News

Zack Snyder image Many movie critics compared 300 to a videogame when it came out in 2007, but now it seems its director, Zack Snyder, is making the leap in-full. Variety’s The Cut Scene blog reports that Snyder has signed a deal with Electronic Arts to make three original games, much like the deal EA signed with Steven Spielberg in 2005 (that has so far resulted in Boom Blox).

As part of the deal, EA will retain full ownership of whatever games Snyder comes up with, and may even work with Snyder’s production company, Cruel & Unusual Films, to adapt some or all of his games to the silver screen. As for what these games will be, however, is still unknown — Variety reports that the deal has only just recently closed, and Snyder and EA have yet to settle on an idea for the first title.

“Zack Snyder has a fresh and bold creative style that resonates with our core audience,” said EA Games label president Frank Gibeau in a statement. But as The Cut Scene rightly points out, putting the name of a famous director on a game’s box rarely assures retail success — Boom Blox received rave reviews but was met with modest sales, and John Woo’s Stranglehold didn’t light the world on fire (and then shoot and collapse a large neon sign onto it), either. It’ll be interesting to see if Snyder’s games perform any better.

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