Universal Acquires Rights To Adapt Reikon Videogame ‘Ruiner’, Wes Ball Directing

Anthony D'Alessandro
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Universal Pictures has picked up the rights to adapt Reikon’s video game Ruiner with Wes Ball attached to direct of Michael Arlen Ross’ screenplay.

Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, producers of The Fall Guy, Bullet Train, and Nobody, will produce through 87North’s first look-deal with Universal Pictures.

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The team behind Tomb Raider (Amazon MGM Studios and Netflix) as well as Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog, will also be producing via Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg, with Timothy I. Stevenson and Dan Jevons serving as EPs. Ball and Joe Hartwick Jr. will produce through Oddball. Marek Roefler, Magdalena Tomkowicz, and Jakub Stylinski will executive produce through Reikon.

Ruiner counts north of 4 million players and 90% positive reviews on Steam. The videogame is an action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. The game follows a wired psychopath who fights against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother. Under the guidance of a mysterious hacker, he battles through a world of brutal violence and cutting-edge technology, inching closer to the dark secrets hidden within the city’s neon-lit streets.

Ross recently wrote and executive produced the action thriller film Locked, directed by David Yarovesky, produced by Sam Raimi, as well as Ara Keshishian and Pétr Jakl of ZQ Entertainment. The pic stars Anthony Hopkins and Bill Skarsgärd.

Universal Pictures’ SVP of Production Development Ryan Jones and Creative Executive of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project on behalf of the Studio.

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