Astro Boy movie rocketing to video game platforms next year
Following their announcement to bring Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick’s Coraline movie to video game consoles, D3Publisher has now also confirmed that they’ve bagged the rights to release a video game tie-in for Imagi Studios’ 2009 feature length animation, Astro Boy. Go, go, go, Astro Boy! On to the full article!
Following their announcement to bring Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick’s Coraline movie to video game consoles, D3Publisher has now also confirmed that they’ve bagged the rights to release a video game tie-in for Imagi Studios’ 2009 feature length animation, Astro Boy.
Other than the announcement to the press, no specific details about the game were revealed. No specific platforms were named either. But from what we know of most kid-friendly movie tie-in games, chances are, it’s going for the full spectrum.
Also, there’s a possibility that the movie’s star-studded voice cast might lend their talents for the game too. Namely, that’d include the folllowing:
- Freddie Highmore
- Kristen Bell (whose previous video game project was Assassin’s Creed)
- Donald Sutherland
- Nicolas Cage
- Scarlett Johannson
- Eugene Levy (Jim’s dad!!!)
- Nathan Lane
The Astro Boy movie is scheduled for an October 23, 2009 debut on the silverscreen, and according to D3Publisher’s press release, the game will be released some time near that, in Q4 2009.
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