CES 2025: Sony pronounces ‘Horizon: Zero Daybreak’ film

In case you’ve spent hours searching brutal Ravagers, climbing towering Tallnecks, and determining how one can deliver down a colossal Thunderjaw, you may need to hear this tidbit of stories: a Horizon: Zero Daybreak film is coming.

The movie adaptation of Guerrilla Video games’ lauded 2017 open-world journey recreation was introduced by Asad Qizilbash, head of PlayStation Productions, throughout Sony’s CES 2025 keynote on Monday. Already a cinematic marvel, Horizon: Zero Daybreak follows machine-hunting protagonist Aloy (voiced by Ashly Burch) by way of a wild, stunning, future America overrun with aggressive mechanical dinosaurs.

“I am excited to have the ability to reveal for the primary time right here immediately, Columbia Footage and PlayStation Productions are on the early phases of growing a movie adaptation of the award-winning Horizon: Zero Daybreak,” Qizilbash stated. “Simply think about, Aloy’s beloved origin story set in a vibrant, far-future world full of the large machines, dropped at you for the primary time on the large display.”

It is actually the one data revealed at current, although we’re considering {that a}) will probably be costly and b) the position of Aloy shall be one of many extra hotly contested roles Hollywood has on the books — particularly because the Horizon: Zero Daybreak recreation has a sequel. Although whereas seeing a dwell motion takedown of a Sawtooth will inevitably be epic, one factor PlayStation and Columbia can have to remember is the backlash Horizon: Zero Daybreak acquired for Native American cultural appropriation.

The Horizon: Zero Daybreak movie is certainly one of a lot of variations introduced by Sony at CES, together with movie productions of Helldivers 2 and Till Daybreak, and an anime sequence primarily based on Ghost of Tsushima — to not point out the launch window for The Final of Us Season 2. It is not shocking that Sony is leaning laborious into extra online game variations, with the likes of Arcane, Fallout, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, and extra all hitting out of the park final yr.

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