SyFy And THQ To Do 'Red Faction' Pilot

[Paroxysm]

Videogame maker THQ has teamed with Syfy for Red Faction: Origins, (working title) a two hour live-action movie/backdoor pilot based pilot on THQ’s Red Faction game franchise, which is scheduled to air in March 2011 on Syfy, tied with the release of the Red Faction Armageddon video game. The story of Red Faction: Origins follows rebel hero Alec Mason and the Mason family and is set during a period between the Red Faction Guerilla video game and Red Faction. The screenplay for Red Faction: Origins screenplay was written by Andrew Kreisberg (Warehouse 13), based on a story developed by Paul DeMeo, THQ Director, fiction development. Production of the film will be managed by Universal Cable Prods.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/syfy-and-thq-to-do-red-faction-pilot/

I loved the series so this is good news!

 

[BlackLantern]

could be good, could be a train wreck

 

[Matt]

Yep.

 

[Doc Ock]

Red Faction? I love the games, I shall be looking forward to this! Hopefully it will be good....but coming from SyFy...who knows.

 

[Sam Fisher]

could be good, could be a train wreck

Can't be worse than Man-Thing, right?

 

[Paroxysm]

http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/01/red-faction-tv-movie-connects.php