Well, betcha you didn’t count on to learn that headline at this time any greater than I anticipated to jot down it. Dark 70s detective RPG Disco Elysium is being spun off right into a TV present, assuming that the manufacturing firm partnering with ZA/UM studio are profitable in assembling a group of writers and pitching it. Seriously, who’d have thunk it?
According to a report by Variety, ZA/UM have partnered with manufacturing firm Dj2 Entertainment. “We’re so gratified at the response Disco Elysium has received, and very happy to be teaming with Dj2 to expand the franchise for other media and new audiences,” ZA/UM’s lead author Helen Hindpere tells Variety.
“No writer is currently attached, nor is a network or streaming service,” says Variety’s report. “Dj2 is now meeting writers in anticipation of pitching the property later this year.” Safe to say it’s some time off then, I collect.
“Disco Elysium is a phenomenal property with an expansive world and unlimited potential,” says Dj2 CEO Dmitri M. Johnson, who has additionally been concerned with that latest Sonic The Hedgehog film. Dj2 are additionally presently producing live-action variations of Sleeping Dogs and Echo. Wait, this Echo? Alright.
I’m brimming with questions on what the heck a Disco Elysium TV present will likely be like. Not least of which is how its persona will translate to the small display. A big chunk of Disco’s appeal is its relentless internal dialogue always talking to Harry the screw-up detective in his head. Would a TV adaptation embrace tons of Harry’s inside monologue?
Heck, does the present even contain Harry Du Bois and my absolute favourite individual Lt. Kim Kitsuragi? Or will the present simply occupy the identical universe? The announcement doesn’t say, so your guess is pretty much as good as mine.
Disco Elysium is sort of good. It’s considered one of RPS’s best RPGs on PC and Alice Bee calls it “a great, bleak rumination on the failings of humanity on a macro and micro level” in her Disco Elysium review, regardless of a few of the flaws within the masterpiece. Personally I flew via the factor in a matter of about 4 days when it launched, rising from a disco-colored fog solely after I’d rolled the credit. Yeah, I additionally appreciated it.
All that’s to say I’ll not insinuate that Disco doesn’t deserve some spinoff motion. I’m only a bit cautious of the way it’ll emerge on TV. Granted I stated the identical factor about yon Witcher TV present and ended up having fun with it so I suppose I’ll simply shut my mistrusting yap till there are some particulars.
