Sony to Turn Horizon Zero Dawn into a Movie, Not a TV Show

I can only imagine that a Horizon TV show would watch like bloated, formulaic, trash, hurtling through multiple seasons of waffle. People want to chase the 'ever green' road of always having content to feed and sell the audience, but, much like the live service industry- there's already a lot of that, and if you don't have the pull, you've failed. A film is much less risky, in a sense.

I Think Sony Should turn this into an Animated Film Rather than live Action.

Ok this will work way more than that God of War TV show in my honest opinion,

This'll be the ultimate test of whether this franchise is as popular as Sony thinks it is/wants it to be. Will it prove the massive investment true or will it become yet another Horizon spin-off flop?

I'm getting Deja Vue. Wasn't this already confirmed off the back of the shows initial axing?

@LifeGirl You mean Hermen right?

Not a fan of the Horizon focus over the past few years.
Probably part of the abysmally ***** management from Hulst.

I think Sony should start making games again

Not sure if movie is the right format to adapt a 30 hours RPG. But i guess we'll see...

It's gonna be ass

@LifeGirl

This'll be the ultimate test of whether this franchise is as popular as Sony thinks it is/wants it to be

I guess Monster Hunter is completely dead as a franchise then…

This definitely suits a movie more than a TV show I like this decision

Please, let Neill Blomkamp direct and produce! This style of movie is made for him!

@ChrisDeku well said. Same with Death Note and the rest.

Definitely a better choice. A focused three act plot and theme to go with. As a TV show they'd probably just stretch the entire goody two shoe plot to a drag.

I actually think the post-apocalyptic world of Horizon is a great setting for storytelling in a TV series. However, as the two main games revolve around the character Aloy, I think a movie will work better for telling her specific story and establishing the world and its history. So maybe a movie to start and then spin-off TV series if it does well. I guess it would be kind of similar to how other big franchises have done it (one small example being Andor was an offshoot of Rogue One) and both a movie and a TV show could exist and complement one another. But as others have said, the quality of the production is the main necessary ingredient. Many good IP’s have been butchered by bad movies and TV adaptations.

There absolutely is a way to make it work, but like pretty much any film, execution in all areas must be near perfect: casting, writing, directing, marketing.

I think it needs to have an amazing trailer that awes the general movie-going public rather than relying on fans of the games. The aim must be to emulate that palpable public reaction to the first Transformers (2007) trailer all those years ago.

And revamp Aloy's character from the boring, invulnerable plank she is in the games. In fact, character work must be bettered across the board. It is an IP that would benefit from some changes.

Only tease the lore, less is more, show how dangerous this world is while making it feel like an exciting place you would want to exist in, and DON'T use this as a canvas to lecture the great unwashed.

MAKE FILMS ESCAPISM AGAIN.

They need to write a character with some actual depth if they want to turn this series into something worthwhile. Aloy's frightfully bland as a protagonist.

Wonder what the budget will look like.

@ChrisDeku True. Add Final Fantasy, AssCreed, Super Mario, Doom, Far Cry, Max Payne, Hitman, and Tekken because their 1st theatrical movie was a flop. But here we are years later from those movies and the franchise are still doing well.

Definitely a film starring Zendaya.

About making more Playstation exclusive sony.word up son

Knowing the luck of the draw with this franchise, the movie will drop the same day as the next Avatar sequel

Didnt they announce this a while ago?

@Starkei

Hope so. Love some Zendaya. Pretty much everyone does.

1. Hire Studio Mir
2. Make it into an Anime

It’s a lot cheaper, lets you use the voice actors from the games and still lets you do the whole story properly. Horizon is too expensive on CGI to make live action.

Does anyone really care about the Horizon franchise? Personally I don't understand why Sony keeps ramming it down our throats.

Think you can still do a good show, at a much cheaper budget if you tackle ted faro and his company's rise and eventual cause of the plague.

The plot of HZD is such a boring mishmash of various sci-fi cliches, it's hard to imagine this not being mediocre, regardless of the format.

Good. This needs a big movie budget. From my understanding, one of the most appealing aspects of this franchise is in its visuals.

So let's go the big screen !

The trouble is that I believe the only people who would be interested in seeing a Horizon film adaptation are those people who have enjoyed the games.

I also feel that condensing the lore and the story into a film that was at most three hours long - it would make it a complete muddle. Watering down the convoluted plot of a forty-hour science fiction archaeofuturist game into a movie length experience, seems like an impossible task.

And making that plot into a feature film that the general public (those without experience of the source material) want to see?

I fear that to me this all sounds like a waste of time.

A perfect parallel would be the recent Dune films. A monumental epic of a novel, made into a pair of films that are over six hours long. And they still took liberties with the plot. And if you have not read the book, then large portions of dialogue (specialist terminology) just sounds like gibberish.