Sony PlayStation Productions Developing Film Adaptation of DAYS GONE

Sony PlayStation Productions is developing a feature film adaptation of the Days Gone, with Up in the Air, X-Men: First Class, and Everest screenwriter Sheldon Turner working on the script. Outlander star Sam Heughan is also looking to join the project.

The story is set in the Pacific Northwest after a devastating global pandemic. The game chronicles “former motorcycle club member, Deacon St. John, as he fights to survive against the forces of despair and mutated, predatory humans in his quest to find the long lost, presumed dead, love of his life.”

I’ve never played the game, but that sounds like the kind of story and concept that will make for a fun and wild movie.

Heughan will take on the role of Deacon St. John, and according to the report, Turner’s script will be “a love ballad to motorcycle movies; the bike being Deacon’s sole form of transportation, his horse in this would-be, modern-day western.”

The film is being produced by Jennifer Klein and Turner through their production company, Vendetta Productions. Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan are producing for Sony PlayStation Productions.

Source: Deadline