Bethesda challenges Peter Jackson to make an Elder Scrolls film

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Bethesda isn’t quite ready to jump into bed with film production companies just yet.

While Warcraft is tearing up China and Assassin’s Creed is poised to make some money with its brand recognition and multi-hundred dollar pre-order tickets, there’s no Elder Scrolls movie on the horizon. Well, unless Bethesda VP of Marketing Pete Hines can convince Peter Jackson to do it.

Speaking to Finder at QuakeCon, Hines noted, “And this conversation usually falls into the camp of; are we going to let some other person do their own interpretation of what Fallout is, or Elder Scrolls is, or Dishonored is? Or are we going to hold onto it and let the developers be the only ones that are able to say, ‘this is what Fallout is, or Elder Scrolls, or Wolfenstein, or whatever?’ So we want our developers to decide what our franchises are about and not a movie director, or producer or studio.”

A noble goal for sure, but everyone has their limit, and for Hines, it’s Jackson. When pressed about how it would be possible, he stated, “I think if Peter Jackson turned up at Todd Howard’s office and said, ‘I want to do Elder Scrolls,’ well that would be a pretty serious conversation you would have to listen to.”

Although they didn’t own id Software at the time, I bet the sour taste of the Doom movie still stings. It’s a wise choice.

Bethesda isn’t interested in movies (unless it’s Peter Jackson) [Finder.com.au]


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