EA signs on '300' director to help make games

Zack Snyder, who also directed Dawn of the Dead, will join Electronic Arts to help them develop new video game titles. I love the collab of video game makers and blockbuster filmmakers. I think it can only help to make cooler, more in-depth games based on movies, and also bring fresh ideas to new games that might make cool movie ideas themselves. I personally love video game movies (Silent Hill!) as long as they're good (as in not House of the Dead) and have pipe dreams of one day working in some related industry... Aaaaanyway, I think this is a smart move on EA's part, but then again just three years ago they did the same with Spielberg, so I guess it's not really a new thing.

Snyder will lead the creative direction of the games and work with the production team at EA Los Angeles, the same studio currently collaborating with Spielberg on the game "Boom Blox" for Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii.

EA will own the intellectual properties, and the game franchises will be developed, published and distributed worldwide by EA. The agreement includes efforts to extend the game franchises into theatrical motion pictures.

Hollywood and the video game industry -- revenues of which rival those of the nation's box offices -- continue to work more and more closely, yielding hit game franchises based on films such as the Lord of the Rings and James Bond series.

EA Signs Video Game Deal With '300' Director