Neill Blomkamp, director of District 9, Chappie, and Elysium, has directed a live-action brief for Anthem forward of the game’s launch later this month. A (very transient) teaser for the brief movie, which is titled Conviction, was posted to YouTube earlier in the present day.
The teaser, which you’ll be able to try additional down this text, exhibits off little or no. There’s a short have a look at the world of the game, a shot panning up the legs of a Javelin standing within the rain, and one other Javelin seen from underwater. Beyond that, there’s nearly nothing to see, past a hyperlink to a separate channel.
That second channel, Oats Studios, is the place the movie will premiere at 15:30 GMT (10:30 ET, 07:30 PT) on Thursday, February 14. The description below the video presents a bit of extra info, saying that Conviction shall be “a live-action story of survival set in the world of Anthem, decades before the events of the game.” That probably means we’ll be seeing locations like hub space Fort Tarsis in a barely completely different mild than within the game itself.
Known for his sci-fi movies, Blomkamp is much from a videogame novice both. He’s beforehand labored on a Halo brief, and was tied to a movie with Bungie earlier than that undertaking was canned. More not too long ago, the director has been trying to make a mech game, and even dropped in on Creative Assembly to try their unannounced FPS.
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You can check out Conviction for your self within the video beneath:
The Anthem release date is now very shut – you’ll be able to try the game for your self from February 22, though there are many methods in earlier than then. Let’s hope that that launch is profitable although – EA reckons the game goes to sell six million copies in a month. That’s a comparatively spectacular feat for any title, however Anthem will now should compete for the not too long ago launched (and free-to-play) Apex Legends.
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