Fast X director wants to make Fortnite movie: \u201cIt\u2019d be funny\u201d Epic GamesFast X director Louis Leterrier has expressed interest in creating a Fortnite film adaptation by saying, \u201cthere\u2019s so much more to be told.\u201d During the production of Fast X, Leterrier was hired as a replacement for Justin Lin. He is also set to helm the 2025 sequel. In addition to directing the tenth Fast & Furious installment, Leterrier has worked on the first two Transporter films, The Incredible Hulk, and Clash of the Titans. Besides purely action flicks, he also directed the action-comedy movie The Takedown. However, Leterrier now wants to chart unfamiliar territory by producing a film based on the battle royale game Fortnite. Keep reading to discover why he chose Fortnite from all the other possible adaptation options. Fast X director calls Fortnite an \u201cincredible\u201d game As reported by Screen Rant, Leterrier attended a director\u2019s panel at San Diego Comic-Con with Gareth Edwards and Justin Simien. There, the French director revealed that he hoped to bring Fortnite to the big screen. \u201cI would direct a Fortnite movie because the game is incredible,\u201d he said. \u201cThe characters\u2026 I mean there\u2019s so much more to be told. It\u2019d be funny. It would be full of action and everything.\u201d This hasn\u2019t been the first mention of a possible Fortnite film. In 2021, Epic Games reportedly hired Star Wars producers to work on an adaptation of the battle royale. However, the project allegedly never left the discussion phase, as official plans were never announced. While Fortnite hasn\u2019t received a movie, the free-to-play title has featured several crossovers with popular franchises. Past collaborations include John Wick, Stranger Things, and The Mandalorian. If Leterrier does direct a Fortnite film, it would hardly be the first video game adaptation. The Super Mario Bros. Movie has established itself as one of the most successful video game movies of all time by surpassing $1.35 billion at the global box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fast X director wants to make Fortnite movie: \u201cIt\u2019d be funny\u201d Epic GamesFast X director Louis Leterrier has expressed interest in creating a Fortnite film adaptation by saying, \u201cthere\u2019s so much more to be told.\u201d During the production of Fast X, Leterrier was hired as a replacement for Justin Lin. He is also set to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}