Some new details on the big-screen version of the video game Rampage have been revealed. Director Brad Peyton is re-teaming with his San Andreas star Dwayne Johnson and has been speaking about the big-budget project with We Got This Covered.
It sounds like they are bringing many different types of creatures to the show, which sounds scary as hell.
“With Rampage, we are using our love of the original game as our inspiration. Then we’re going to build a movie, like San Andreas, that is really going to surprise people in what it delivers. It’s going to be a lot more emotional, a lot scarier and a lot more real than you’d expect,” Peyton said.
“So you look at that original concept about a lab that affects these animals and makes them rampage, and that’s the nugget. If they called me tomorrow to do Call of Duty, I wouldn’t want to play any of the Call of Duty games. I’d have to come up with something that deserves to be its own thing. That’s where a lot of these movies can go wrong.”
Peyton also spoke about hooking up with Johnson too:
“I’m really excited about Rampage. It’s a monster film, so the stuff that I did on Incarnate, stretching my muscles in the horror space helped. This ‘small, character piece’ with horror in it trained me to get ready for [Rampage]. Obviously, it’s a much bigger movie and it’s meant for a broader audience, but there are still horror elements, there’s still a monster movie at the core. And I get to work with Dwayne [Johnson] again, I’m so excited about it.”
Shooting on Rampage will start next year for a 2018 release. More at the end of the link above.
