Though movies base on TV games still havea long style to go , video game based on democratic films have been on the uptick , with late entry likeAlien : Isolation , Mad Max , andMiddle - earth : Shadow of Mordorproving that adaptations can be done right with just a picayune care . And if Francis Ford Coppola has anything to say about it , Apocalypse Nowwill join those ranks presently enough .
It was recently announced that Coppola ’s American Zoetrope photographic film studio has commence maturation on a video game base on the director ’s iconic war film . To solidify the effort , the studio apartment has forged a partnership with TV game veterans like executive producer Lawrence Liberty ( radioactive dust : New VegasandWitcher 3 ) , author Rob Auten ( gearing of War ) , and Josh Sawyer , the purpose director at Obsidian Entertainment ( the studio apartment behindSouth Park : The Stick of TruthandFallout : New Vegas ) . Instead of run through a typical video recording secret plan studio apartment for financing , the squad is goingthe Kickstarter routeand is looking to raise $ 900,000 by February 24 , 2017.In a statement , Coppola wrote :
The game is being touted as a first - person RPG with physiologic revulsion elements , rather than a distinctive discharge - and - shooter shooter à laCall of Duty . The player will take mastery of Martin Sheen ’s character , Captain Benjamin Willard , as he traverse the jungles of Vietnam for face Colonel Kurtz . Supplies will be special , ammunition will be scarce , andenemies will be unavoidable .
With a pledge of $ 35 or more , you ’ll get a digital written matter of the biz . As the contribution go up , so do the incentives , with " work Of " documentary film , digital novels typeset in theApocalypse Nowuniverse , and bangle like dossiers and dog shred being included with turgid inwardness . If you ’re really endue in the plot , at $ 10,000 you could get a tour of the Coppola Family Archives .
Not much more information is known about the game , but if the funding goes through , you could expect it sometime in 2020 .
