And the video game adaptations keep a-coming, this time with the news that Hazelight Studios’ acclaimed co-operative platformer It Takes Two is the latest in an increasingly long line of games to be making the journey to the big and small screen.
It Takes Two – which released for PC and consoles last March, and featured in many a Game of the Year list as 2021 drew to a close – follows the adventures of Cody and May, a human couple preparing to divorce, who are forced to work together after being turned into living dolls.
According to Variety, Hazelight has partnered with dj2 Entertainment – which also has adaptations of Tomb Raider, Disco Elysium, and Sleeping Dogs in the works – in order to bring its acclaimed title to both film and television. Pat Casey and Josh Miller – the writing duo behind dj2’s live-action “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies – will be working on the big screen version.
“Just like the rest of the gaming world,” says dj2 Entertainment in a statement accompanying the news, “we fell head-over-heels in love with Cody, May, Rose, Dr. Hakim and the imaginative fantasy universe Hazelight have created, and can’t wait to bring these characters – and this world – to life on the big and small screen.”