Skydance’s Amy Hennig to collab with Marvel for brand spanking new recreation

Skydance New Media introduced that Uncharted co-creator Amy Hennig is engaged on a story action-adventure recreation with Marvel Entertainment.

Hennig and former Electronic Arts govt Julian Beak began a brand new recreation studio within the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Monica, California, in 2019, and so they’ve been engaged on the sport ever because the second half of 2020.

Hennig is legendary because the co-creator at Naughty Dog for the early Uncharted video games, which featured deep narratives and nuanced characters reminiscent of Nathan Drake and Sully. She additionally did stints at Electronic Arts and Crystal Dynamics throughout twenty years of labor in video games that has earned her quite a few honors and awards.

It’s no shock that Marvel — which has finished nice with Insomniac video games reminiscent of Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales — turned to Hennig to work on a “narrative-driven, blockbuster action-adventure recreation, that includes a totally authentic story and tackle the Marvel Universe.

This marks the primary initiative from the Skydance’s new recreation studio, which David Ellison’s Skydance Media — maker of movies reminiscent of Mission Impossible and The Terminator — created as a part of an effort to construct a inventive convergence of video games, movie, and tv.

“I can’t imagine a better partner than Marvel for our first game,” mentioned Hennig, president of Skydance New Media, in a press release. “The Marvel Universe epitomizes all the action, mystery, and thrills of the pulp adventure genre that I adore and lends itself perfectly to an interactive experience. It’s an honor to be able to tell an original story with all the humanity, complexity, and humor that makes Marvel characters so enduring and to enable our players to embody these heroes that they love.”

To create this all-new interactive expertise, Skydance New Media has assembled an achieved crew of builders with a long time of  expertise in motion and journey gaming, in addition to a various staff of inventive consultants from the worlds of movie, tv, and comics. About 20 individuals are engaged on the sport on the studio, and one other 30 are working amongst exterior companions.

Skydance additionally has groups engaged on digital actuality video games. Skydance New Media mentioned its staff is laser-focused on creating high-fidelity, richly interactive experiences crafted for conventional gaming platforms in addition to rising streaming companies and designed to be interesting, inviting, and accessible to a worldwide viewers.

“Amy has been setting the bar for narrative adventure games for decades and we are happy to be collaborating with the talented and experienced New Media team at Skydance,” mentioned Jay Ong, head of Marvel Games, in a press release. “Their ambition and vision for making innovative entertainment using beloved Marvel IP was obvious from our first meeting. We’re excited to share more with Marvel fans when the time is right.”

Beak, govt vp at Skydance New Media, mentioned in a press release,”We are enormously excited to be working contained in the Marvel Universe to craft a wealthy narrative of our personal. Jay and his staff at Marvel Games are serving to us make one of the best experiences possible.”

Skydance is the diversified media firm based by David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, in 2010 to create high-quality, event-level leisure for world audiences. The studio is engaged on the Top Gun: Maverick movie. Skydance’s movies have generated greater than $6 billion on the field workplace. Skydance’s funding companions embody Tencent Holdings, Redbird Capital, CJ ENM, and the Ellison Family.