Telltale Games has continued their collaborative ways by announcing a new partnership with Lionsgate. Under the terms of the deal, Lionsgate will make a “significant investment” in Telltale, giving both companies the opportunity to collaborate on future games, television shows, and films.
A major part of this agreement involves Telltale’s mysterious “original IP,” which was first announced more than a month ago. Telltale will continue its work on the game while Lionsgate will explore the possibility of adapting the game into a television series.
Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner said: “Lionsgate has a great track record in developing and marketing feature films as well as platform-defining premium scripted television. This partnership will accelerate Telltale’s ability to create not only original games, but episodic television series based on our game properties – an area at the cutting edge of industry growth.”
On the other side of the coin, this deal also gives Telltale the chance to adapt some of Liongate’s film and television properties into games. No one said the words “Twilight: A Telltale Game Series” or “The Hunger Games: A Telltale Game Series,” but you know that executives from both companies are thinking about them.
“Telltale is one of the premier storytellers in the gaming world today,” said Lionsgate Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer. “Their leadership in narrative-driven episodic games, together with our investment and the potential opportunities created by our premium content expertise, will continue to strengthen their ability to offer exciting new avenues of storytelling to their next generation audiences across a broad range of platforms.”
Whatever happens, Telltale’s “original IP” is probably still quite a ways off as the developer currently has a lot on their plate including Game of Thrones, Tales From the Borderlands, Minecraft: Story Mode, and The Walking Dead: Season 3.
