Paramount Pictures has optioned the rights to the popular arcade game Area 51 from Midway Games, with Christine Peters set to produce the action-thriller. The game is to be released in the home video game market in March in the PlayStation 2 and Xbox formats. Peters will collaborate with Midway to produce the film. The game features the voice talent of David Duchovny as Specialist Ethan Cole of the Hazardous Materials Division, Powers Boothe as Major Bridges and singer Marilyn Manson as Edgar, the gray alien. Players will take the role of Cole, who has been sent to investigate a distress signal from Area 51, where a viral outbreak has just shut down the research facility, automatically locking all scientific and military personnel inside.
- 8/31/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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