20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment have started to develop a big screen adaptation of one of the most popular video games in history. MEGA MAN.
David Ready and Michael Finfer are overseeing for the project, which could mean good things the character. They are the same team behind Fox’s Planet of the Apes films. Mike Ireland and Ryan Horrigan are also on board.
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“Mega Man, originally called Rock Man in Japan, was first released in 1987 for Nintendo by Capcom. The backstory for the game is that a man named Dr. Light and the android that he built to be his lab assistant, Rock, were betrayed by the evil Dr. Wily, who stole Dr. Light’s work and made evil robot with special weapons to take over the world.
Dr. Light reconfigured his lab assistant into a battle droid with armor and a cannon, which he then called Mega Man. Once victorious over the evil robots, Mega Man can mimic their weapons, which are useful in the games as certain enemies are vulnerable to other enemies weapons."