Ambitious Stars-Hana Fund Lining Up Video Games Based On James Wan, Sam Raimi, Roy Lee, Jon M. Chu Projects; Film Slate Revealed
21.12.2023 - 17:33
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Film projects with genre supremos James Wan, Sam Raimi and Roy Lee attached as producers are set to be turned into video games by ambitious new Sino-American fund Stars-Hana, which we revealed in October.
The fund combines Peter Luo’s Stars Collective, Chinese firm Hana Investment and Starlight Media: the three partners hosted a launch event in LA last month. The idea is to invest in verticals including film, TV, comics, games, collectibles, consumer goods, AI and new tech over a three-year period.
Today, the three companies have revealed first details of the slate, which includes ambitions to create video games based on Stars Collective film IP.
The fund is partnering with game companies including Tencent and Tencent-owned DreamSky Technology, as well as HYJZ and Forevernine, to develop games based on the following projects, some of which have been announced and some we are revealing for the first time today:
Stars Collective is a producer on all the above films — most of which are in development — with the exception of Sony’s upcoming Garfield, on which Stars Collective holds a 25-year exclusive merchandising license in China. Raimi, Lee, Wan and Chu are all on the above projects as producers.
Wan recently described Call Of Cthulhu, an adaptation of the classic horror short story by science-fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft., as a “dream project” and one he had been quietly working on for five years. The story involves a man investigating a demonic cult known as Cthulhu.
Sci-fi thriller GMO, set in the future, alights on a newly invented drug that solves a global famine but whose side effects drastically accelerate the ageing process. After knowing that his estranged father has developed an antidote,