"Movie-goers just aren't they want just one of five genres." "Gamers are just way more open to different kinds of storytelling," Gunn said. He also points out the rather ironic notion that though a successful game could pave the way for a Lollipop Chainsaw movie, it'd be much more difficult to get a stand-alone screenplay approved for production without the game coming first.
"If Lollipop Chainsaw has a big enough audience, which we hope it does, then I think a movie would be a great thing," Gunn noted. Gunn, whose screenwriting credits include films Super and Slither, understands that "these mixed genre movies have a hard time making money." "It would be hard to make a Lollipop Chainsaw movie without people knowing the game," Gunn told Edge in an interview at GDC. approached him about just such a cross-over project during the game's early development stages.
The quirky and violent concept doesn't exactly seem like mainstream movie material, but Gunn asserts that publisher Warner Bros. We do know that Grasshopper Manufacture has three games in development, but Suda51 already confirmed that they’re all brand new properties and not sequels to any of his previous games.Īside from coming from the creator of No More Heroes (another stylised, over-the-top action game), Lollipop Chainsaw’s other claim to fame is that its story was written by James Gunn, best known nowadays as the director and writer for Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy movies, DC’s The Suicide Squad, and the Peacemaker TV show on HBO Max.According to Lollipop Chainsaw's lead writer James Gunn, Grasshopper Manufacture's upcoming game about a cheerleader ridding her high school of zombies with a chainsaw has some silver-screen potential. It’s far too early to tell whether developer Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda and his studio, Grasshopper Manufacture, will have any involvement with a potential remaster or sequel.
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