Online game developer Hazelight Studios will staff with Sonic The Hedgehog co-producer Dmitri M. Johnson and his dj2 Entertainment to convey It Takes Two to display screen.
The 2-player online game, which took dwelling the marquee Recreation of the 12 months prize at The Game Awards 2021, follows married couple Cody and Could, who’re struggling to maintain it collectively for his or her younger daughter. They’re remodeled into magical dolls and should navigate their hardest points and insecurities, with the assistance of an anthropomorphic {couples}’ remedy e-book named Dr. Hakim. They traverse fantastical imaginations of their mundane dwelling to attempt to rekindle the love they as soon as had.
No studio or community has been hooked up to the undertaking but, however Sonic The Hedgehog writers Pat Casey and Josh Miller, who will return to pen the movie’s upcoming sequel alongside John Whittington, will adapt the online game.
The online game hails from A Approach Out creator and Hazelight Studio founder Josef Fares.
“Creating the world and story in It Takes Two was a lot enjoyable for me and the staff. Because it has a powerful narrative with many loopy characters and simply as loopy co-op motion moments, the potential is big for an important adaption to movie or tv,” mentioned Fares.
“The reception of It Takes Two has been completely stellar from press and gamers alike,” mentioned Hazelight Studio Supervisor, Oskar Wolontis. “We’re very excited for the chance to increase this beloved IP past gaming, for each previous and new followers to understand.”
Added Johnson, the CEO and Founding father of dj2 Leisure: “dj2 is honored to accomplice with Josef, Oskar, and the unbelievable staff at Hazelight Studios on the linear media adaptation of It Takes Two. Identical to the remainder of the gaming world, we fell head-over-heels in love with Cody, Could, Rose, Dr. Hakim and the imaginative fantasy universe Hazelight have created, and might’t wait to convey these characters -and this world- to life on the large and small display screen.”
It Takes Two additionally took dwelling the Greatest Multiplayer Recreation and Greatest Household Recreation on the 2021 Recreation Awards.
Selection first broke the information.