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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story writer Gary Whitta would love to make a movie adaptation of Remedy Entertainment’s Control, and the developer is more than happy to help (via VG247).
Whitta is a screenwriter, author, game designer, and video game journalist, with credits on The Book of Eli, After Earth, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Prey, and The Walking Dead: The Final Season. Whitta began a conversation on Twitter, inviting people to ask him anything about… well, anything. Expectedly, lots of the questions centred around Rogue One—would he make a sequel, whether he’d be interested in writing for The Mandalorian, does he have a favourite lightsaber from the Star Wars universe—but one person asked:
What video game do you think would make the best movie? And would you write it?
— Noah Dekel (@edgejam) January 21, 2020
Whitta replied that he would leap at the opportunity to write a movie adaptation of Control. Given the game’s influences were drawn from the works of Stanley Kubrick, Guillermo del Toro, and David Lynch, this makes sense, and Control features fourth-wall breaking and live-action segments to blur the boundaries between what is real and what is virtual. And, Remedy Entertainment head of communications Thomas Puha said that he’d be well up for an adaptation.
Lets talk @garywhitta
— Thomas Puha (@RiotRMD) January 21, 2020
This isn’t an outright confirmation that we’re getting a movie about Control, but it’s a very cool interaction. It could mean that Remedy Entertainment brings Whitta on board for its projects, that have used live-action sequences on occasion. In Quantum Break, “junction points” let the player choose the character’s course of action, and then an episode of an integrated live-action television show featuring the characters’ actors played out before the game resumed again. We do know that chief writer on Control and creative director at Remedy Entertainment, Sam Lake, is hard at work in his “top secret writing lair.” Whitta may be introduced to Remedy Entertainment in this manner… or we could be getting a movie or TV adaptation of Control.
It’s a slim possibility, but it’s one that would be fantastic if it got off the ground. Looking at the success of Netflix’s The Witcher, an X-Files-esque show inspired by a video game world wouldn’t go amiss.
Control is out now for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.
