Fortnite the Movie could be on the cards

(Pocket-lint) - Fortnite has agelong since conquered the satellite of interactive amusement - it's 1 of the biggest games successful the satellite by fundamentally each imaginable metric, and you lone person to cheque successful connected its latest pop-culture crossovers to spot its popularity demonstrated.

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Now, according to manufacture reports, Epic Games mightiness beryllium turning its attraction to the metallic screen, successful an effort to leverage the game's utmost fame to motorboat a caller part internally, with movies and TV the apt aim.

According to a paywalled study from The Information, Epic has been hiring distant accumulation experts from assorted movie studios, including LucasFilm, which is simply a beauteous wide awesome of its intent.

Epic's involvement and information successful the wider arts isn't precisely new, either - it's been cooking up plans for a while. Don't hide that portion of wherefore Disney+'s The Mandalorian looked truthful large close from the commencement of its archetypal play was down to a collaboration with Epic.

It provided Unreal Engine tech to assistance marque integer backgrounds for the show's sets, a method that is spreading into wider usage aft its occurrence with the Star Wars show.

For now, there's nary connection from Epic connected however close these reports each are, though, and it's perfectly imaginable that erstwhile it does publicise what it's moving connected it could beryllium wholly unrelated to Fortnite. Still, fixed the size of that brand, it's wherever the astute wealth sits.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 12 October 2021.