Fighting Fantasy Book Series Gets movie Green Light in 3D

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“The first book in the world-renowned Fighting Fantasy series to get the big screen treatment is House of Hell.

Steve Jackson’s horror adventure House of Hell , a best-selling title from the multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy series of interactive gamebooks is to start pre-production at Pinewood Studios. Exclusive production rights have been secured by UK based Superteam Productions.

Superteam will be creating an online version of House of Hell to coincide with the relaunch of the book.

“The online version will be interactive and will allow viewers to choose their own paths

The Fighting Fantasy Gamebook series, created by Jackson and co-author Ian Livingstone in the 1980s, became a playground craze amongst 8 - 16-year-olds around the world. Through a clever and often complex 'choose your own path' mechanic,

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There were 59 gamebooks in the original core series.

...not the first book series to use the gamebook format, Fighting Fantasy popularised the format
Technically, the format was first seen in the 1969 Penguin political thriller State of Emergency, by Dennis Guerrier and Joan Richards.

A gamebook (also sometimes referred to as choose your own adventure books or CYOA books, not to be confused with the series by that title)

Seven Fighting Fantasy novels have also been published.

House of Hell (Jackson, 1984) is the only Fighting Fantasy book set in modern-day Earth.

imdb listing
House of Hell (2011)
official site:
http://www.houseofhellmovie.com/#vid

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

I had tons of these books as a kid (in fact I've still got them boxed up somewhere), including House of Hell. Hope the movie turns out well.

 

[23skidoo]

But ... but ... unless the movie itself is interactive as well, what's the point?

Alex

 

[FreezeC77]

Yea, I don't really see how you adapt it for a theater. Direct to DVD with it being interactive would make sense I suppose.

I had a lot of these books as a kid. My Mom used to order them from some kind of book-list we got from the Catholic School I went to, I guess they got some money from the sale since we had to go around trying to sell books like selling candy or something.

 

[captcalhoun]

let me know when they make either Agent of FEAR (superheroes), Freeway Fighter (mad max rip-off) or Forest of Doom.

 

[Trent Roman]

I remember House of Hell. That was the one with terror points to gauge how much your fragile little psyche could stand, yes? Seas of Blood was another favourite (yay, booty). Wasn't there also one where you piloted robots against dinosaurs?

let me know when they make either Agent of FEAR (superheroes), Freeway Fighter (md max rip-off) or Forest of Doom.

Or Trek rip-off Starship Traveller. Curious bit of trivia: the French version of this book renamed the titular lost spaceship Voyager... a decade before real Trek made a show about a lost spaceship of that name.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman