Village Roadshow Entertainment Group Acquires Film/TV Rights

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group (VREG) has acquired the movie and TV rights to best-selling online game franchise “Myst,” the corporate introduced on Wednesday. The firm will depend on and increase upon the sport’s present mythology to develop a multi-platform universe together with movie, scripted and unscripted tv content material.

Created in 1993 by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller by means of their firm, Cyan, “Myst” is a collection of first-person graphic adventure-puzzle video video games. Village Roadshow will develop and produce alongside the unique co-creator Rand Miller and his youngest brother Ryan Miller, in addition to Isaac Testerman and Yale Rice at Delve Media.

VREG will take a full-scale strategy to growing “Myst” into content material throughout all divisions with the Company’s complete inventive staff working collectively to adapt these initiatives throughout movie and tv. Under the path of its controlling shareholder, Vine Alternative Investments, VREG not too long ago set a brand new mandate with the appointment of CEO Steve Mosko to remodel right into a broad-spectrum content material creator with an emphasis on tv, streaming and different rising distribution platforms. This transfer enhances its enterprise of growing and co-financing characteristic movies together with “Joker” that will probably be launched by Warner Bros. on October 4, 2019.

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The “Myst” lore covers over 10,000 years of historical past, however its major saga follows Atrus, a superb (if a bit naïve) grandson of Anna, a girl who triggers a world-shaping set of occasions when she discovers the D’ni civilization in a cavern deep under the New Mexico desert. The D’ni have a singular means to write down books that may hyperlink to different worlds. The discovery of their means and the conflict of cultures is the catalyst for the “Myst” novels and video games.

Until 2002, “Myst” was the best-selling PC recreation of all time, and to this point, the franchise has bought over 15 million copies worldwide. “Myst” spawned a number of profitable sequels together with the critically acclaimed “Riven” in 1997. A collection of “Myst” novels had been additionally revealed. The books discover the lives and backstories of the sport’s characters.