[Rumor] Christopher Nolan Really Wants To Make An Inception Video Game?

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Memento, Dark Knight and Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan has told Variety that he wants to adapt Inception, his massively successful, tricksy dream-weaving film, into a video game based upon the movie's mind-bending world.

Inception grossed $753 million in box office receipts for a reason, and perhaps some sort of sandbox action game could fit the movie's themes and ideas perfectly.

Speaking to Variety, Nolan said, "one thing we are looking at doing is developing a video game based on the world of the film, which has all kinds of ideas that you can't fit into a feature film."

Nolan wouldn't want to rush out a quick cash-in though, adding, "That's something we've been talking about and are looking at doing long-term, in a couple of years."

Imagine the potential an Inception game developed over a few years could have. Our heads are spinning at the prospect, especially if the game has no movie or home video tie-in deadline date to adhere to. Colour us massively excited if this comes off.

Meanwhile, Nolan is in pre-production for the next Batman movie, scheduled for release in 2012.

 

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Christopher Nolan Confirms That Inception Game Is a Go

It goes without saying that movie-based video games have one of the worst track records going, but if anyone can buck the trend, then we'd put good money on British director, Christopher Nolan finding the winning formula to make a truly great movie-based video game. The movie in question is the mind-bending Inception too, which would certainly make for an interesting proposition as a game.

In September, Nolan expressed interest in adapting his action-packed dream-invading story to the video game medium, but now he's confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that the Inception game has the green light to go ahead and delve into development.

Apparently, Nolan is working with a full dev team on the project in what he terms "a longer-term proposition", adding that he's excited to "explore" the medium of gaming in which he'd create an entirely new story set within the brain-melting world of the movie.

Currently, EW is suggesting that the game might take the form of an MMO, but we'd prefer a third-person shooter with insane physics. Or is that too predictable? How about a cerebral puzzler/action game instead then? A game within a game within a game, maybe within another game? Are you listening, Mr Nolan?

Whatever form the Inception video game takes, we'll be keeping our eye on this that's for sure.