HotD 3 movie on the way

By Ellie Gibson Published 16 June, 2006

Filming to begin this year.

The co-founder of Mindfire Entertainment, the Hollywood production company responsible for the House of the Dead, Fear Effect and Dead or Alive movies, has revealed that a third HotD film is on the way.

In an interview with FiringSquad.com, Mark A. Altman said: "We have House of the Dead 3 in development now and hope to begin filming later this year if everything comes together."

But don't go expecting it to be anything like the original Uwe Boll film or its straight-to-video sequel: "It's a completely different approach to the material than the first two films, and I doubt it will even be called House of the Dead 3."

Altman went on to discuss the new development company he's set up with animation legend Ray Harryhausen, and the movies and videogame tie-ins they're set to produce.

When asked what kind of games we can look forward to, Altman replied: "I suppose it will depend on what stories are being adapted.

"Some will be more straight-ahead action like those in the lost world or alien invasion genres, but I think in the case of Jason or Sinbad there's an opportunity to do a more puzzle based RPG adventure."

In other news, movie fans may like to know that Fear Effect is set to go into production at the end of the year, with Stanley Tong at the helm. The Dead or Alive movie is set to hit UK cinemas on September 1st.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • mugen #1 6 years ago

    Wait, there's two HotD films already? What a shame, I must have missed one ;)

  • hypernova #2 6 years ago

    They were both so laughably bad that they were good imo, and the second one had a rather attractive female lead :-)

  • SimonM7 #3 6 years ago

    lol

    It won't even be called HoTD3 because it's they're actually paying attention to what the games were about this time? How backwards is that?

    Thing is, I thought AiTD was a much more painful sit through than these, simply because it had some narrative potential. HoTD are just one big mess of cliche monsters and really crazily bad dialogue..

    That said, I thought the highlight of HoTD was when you caught their names at the end (Curien) and you got to see G.

    Although he was black, which was weird.

  • Markusdragon #4 6 years ago

    The House of the Dead movie could have been so much more.

    Actually, come to think of it, seeing as Uwe Boll was in charge of it, it could have been so much more if I directed it, let alone someone with some media-based skills that don't involve writing essays about monkey island or operating autocues...

  • Tomo #5 6 years ago

    Saw the DoA trailer in the cinema the other day. Looks... beautiful/awful.

  • ilmaestro #6 6 years ago

    Oh. Yes.

    /pays full price for shit like this.

  • penhalion #7 6 years ago

    Just saw the dead or alive stuff....for frak sake how can anyone actually BE a worse film maker than Uwe Boll.

    This stuff has got to be a tax dodge...it just has to be.....doesn't it?

  • Diabeu #8 6 years ago

    no, it doesn't

    /hides behind the rock

  • Swannzie #9 6 years ago

    I thought 2 were enough, they were both terrible.

  • Milbe #10 6 years ago

    I have just seen the second one, and it is more like joke than a movie. I really thought I have seen all the crappy B-movies, but this is just pathetic...