New Line taps Ryan Engle to write Rampage based on 80s videogame

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Remember back in November when word came in that New Line was making a movie out of RAMPAGE, the 80s videogame about a bunch of building-bashing beasties? Well, that shite has finally found a scribe!

THR claims newcomer Ryan Engle has been hired by New Line to pen RAMPAGE for the big-screen. With few credits to his name, it was the blacklisted ON A CLEAR DAY, since being developed to direct by Jaume Collet-Serra (ORPHAN), that won Engle acclaim around town in the last year or so. Here’s what he’s set to adapt with RAMPAGE:

The concept of the game revolves around a trio of mild-mannered humans who are mutated into a giant Godzilla-like lizard, a werewolf and a gorilla, respectively, and fight the military while destroying buildings. Players controlled the monsters and moved up levels when a city was destroyed.

RAPMAGE is being taken very seriously for its otherwise silly source material. It’s being fashioned as an INDEPENDENCE DAY type tentpole, though with a more economic budget. No director has been attached, but producer John Rickard will surely assign one shortly.

Until he does, has your opinion on a RAMPAGE movie altered since it was first announced? You down with it being written by this Engle cat? Who should direct?

ORPHAN’s Vera Farmiga