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won't be the only well-known game franchise receiving a movie adaptation in the near future. Lionsgate has that Hostel director and Inglourious Basterds star Eli Roth will direct the movie, with production starting later in 2020. Most of the details aren't known (including the basic plot), but Roth said he was happy with the script as well as the support from Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford, who's also one of the executive producers alongside Take-Two chief Strauss Zelnick.
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