Sony hopes to start filming the live-action Horizon Zero Daybreak in 2026 and launch it someday in 2027, in accordance with new courtroom paperwork.
Sport Publish stated it made the invention in courtroom paperwork filed as a part of Sony and Tencent’s ongoing authorized battle over Mild of Motiram, which the corporate accuses of being a “knock-off” of the Guerrilla online game Horizon: Zero Daybreak.
PlayStation Productions boss Asad Qizilbash stated in authorized paperwork that the Horizon Zero Daybreak film now has a working script accomplished and Sony is searching for a director. The plan is to begin filming subsequent 12 months and launch the film in 2027.
“We’re growing a movie based mostly on ‘Horizon’ in partnership with Columbia Photos,” director Kizilbash stated in an announcement. “We now have already accomplished the script and are actively looking for a director, with the purpose of filming in 2026 and releasing in 2027. This live-action movie follows current collaborations between Columbia Photos and PlayStation Productions on the 2022 movie Uncharted and the 2023 movie Gran Turismo.”
Kizilbash additionally described Horizon’s fundamental character Aloy as “an vital icon for a promising film” and emphasised her significance “to the flywheel of constructing a franchise.”
Sony introduced the Horizon film throughout Sony’s CES 2025 press convention in January. Columbia Photos produced a profitable 2022 uncharted film Starring Tom Holland as Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg as Victor Sullivan, it is no shock that the collaboration continues right here.
“Columbia Photos and PlayStation Productions are within the early levels of growing a movie adaptation of the award-winning Horizon Zero Daybreak,” Kizilbash stated on stage at CES.
“Think about this: Aloy’s endearing origin story, set in a vibrant far-future world crammed with large machines, is dropped at the large display screen for the primary time.”
On the identical press convention, Sony introduced: Helldivers 2 film adaptation and Anime collection based mostly on Ghost of Tsushima.
The query now’s who ought to play Aloy?
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