Heavy Rain Movie?

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A filing with the United States Copyright Office reveals that Quantic Dreams have been exploring a Heavy Rain movie. It is hardly a shock that a story as strong as Heavy Rain’s isn’t thought of as being a likely candidate for the Hollywood treatment, but as you can see from the filing below, David Cage and Quantic Dreams entered into a Short Form Option with Warner Bros subsidiary New Line Productions.

Type of Work:	Recorded Document
Document Number:	V3551D622
Date of Recordation:	2007-04-23
Entire Copyright Document:	V3551 D622 P1-3
Date of Execution:	15May06; 12Jan07
Title:	Heavy rain / by David “Cage” de Gruttola.
Notes:	Short form option. Exhibit A recorded at request of sender.
Party 1:	QuanticDream, Inc. & David DeGruttola a.k.a. David Cage.
Party 2:	New Line Productions, Inc.

Names:	DeGruttola, David
	Cage, David
	Gruttola, David De
	QuanticDream, Inc.
	New Line Productions, Inc.

It must be pointed out that a Short Form Option isn’t the movie rights, its merely a filing which legally protects both parties as they enter in to negotiations with each other. As you can see the filing was made in 2007 and we haven’t heard too much (or anything at all) about a Heavy Rain movie since then, so this could dead in the water. Personally I’m hoping a Heavy Rain movie does get made, because it could make one hell of a game.

Source : USCO (which doesn’t allow direct linking) Via: superannuation.

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bunimomike | 27/02/2010 11:54
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I’m going to take my PS3 controller to the cinema to see what I can do. 8-)
- cc_star | 27/02/2010 11:55
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  Awesome. Don’t forget to hold R2 in else you’ll never get there
  - bunimomike | 27/02/2010 12:04
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    :lol: Oh god, imagine trying to get out quickly to go pee? No bloody chance.
  - cc_star | 27/02/2010 12:06
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    Do you get a hot leg if you fail?
  - Dr_mohannad | 27/02/2010 12:10
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    I hope you don’t shake the controller.
SIR-DARK-HAZE | 27/02/2010 12:02
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Dr_mohannad | 27/02/2010 12:09
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It would be awesome, I was thinking the same thing yesterday, the story works for ( saw like) movie.
It would take ages to finish see the light, to a point where they will release heavy snow, burning sun, and Dark clouds…
gazzagb | 27/02/2010 12:17
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Cant see this working, theve probably just got this legal thingy to stop anyone else making a movie of it.
Zackackle | 27/02/2010 12:30
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Besides a sequel, this is the best news I could imagine hearing right after ‘finishing’ Heavy Rain (I know I know, a sequel wouldn’t work, but more from Quantic Dream in general at least). So far, it’s my GOTY, and I have just fallen in love with the characters. Which is why a film adaptation has me excited; they can use the very actors they cast in Heavy Rain for the film! They look and sound and act exactly the same. Excitement!
- SIR-DARK-HAZE | 27/02/2010 13:35
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  - Dr_mohannad | 27/02/2010 18:28
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    uncharted 2 is my GotY, sorry guys
  - dirtyhabit | 27/02/2010 18:47
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    UC2 was last year?
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MegaBonez | 27/02/2010 12:51
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Personally, I’m not keen on the idea. Now don’t get me wrong, I think it would be a great film, but I don’t think it will be very entertaining for those who have finished the game and know the story. There will be no shocks or surprizes and you won’t have the fun of trying to guess who the killer is because you’ll already know! The game tells the story easily as good as a film, but on a more personal level because you make the decisions. It’s better as a game than it could ever be as a film, and I think it should stay that way!
- G_The_Enemy14 | 27/02/2010 14:01
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  I don’t think the film would be the same as the game (if they do make a film) because that would be pointless. They would have to create a new story or else people who have completed the game won’t bother to watch it.
  
  And +1 for your picture!
- cc_star | 27/02/2010 15:00
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  Hammy acting and a cack-handed script are no where near the level of movie story telling, they could improve the Heavy Rain experience.
Phil_E | 27/02/2010 14:59
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I’d watch it, even though I’d know the story back to front.
Maybe they could film more than one of the possible endings and when you go to the cinema you don’t know which one its going to be. ooooh
- cc_star | 27/02/2010 15:01
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  They could do that with all films, thus causing ticket sales to sky rocket – I’m going to patent the idea now
- bunimomike | 27/02/2010 20:02
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  That’d be great. Put it on simultaneously across four screens or so and at key points, everyone has to get up and choose which screen to go to next depending on their choices.
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  Go to Screen 1 to return to the department
  Go to Screen 2 to question further
  Go to Screen 3 to beat the hoooker
  Go to Screen 4 to see what’ll happen for $20
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  Shame Mike Reid is dead or we could have him hired out and shouting “RUN AROOOOUUUUNNNDDD!!”.
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KrimsonKing | 27/02/2010 15:09
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well they’d have to change the story obviously.

in all likelihood it will be a very ordinary movie
Jordaaaan | 27/02/2010 16:02
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If it happens there needs to be some select group of people to start screaming the different buttons when anything resembling a quicktime event comes up.
f0wl3r89 | 27/02/2010 16:37
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bit soon about thinking about a movie sould see if the games a hit first like the halo movie still waitin for tht and thts been talked about since the first halo donkeys years ago
- SIR-DARK-HAZE | 27/02/2010 23:13
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  - colossalblue | 27/02/2010 23:20
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    Only the animated compilation “Halo Legends”. They have been talking about and trying to get a live-action Halo movie made for years, the latest attempt got derailed in pre-production and ended up being turned into District 9.
    
    343 Industries have recently said, in a room I was almost sleeping in at the time, that they still take that idea down from the shelf and dust it every day. So hope is not lost. The ODST trailer was good enough to hint at a decent live-action movie.