Red Faction: Origins movie to debut on SyFy in March 2011

This March -- for the first time ever -- you may have a non-ironic interest in watching a SyFy original movie. That's because the live-action Red Faction movie, now called Red Faction: Origins, will be airing on the network during that month, coinciding with the release of Red Faction: Armageddon. So that's what that other domain registration was about!

The two-hour "pilot" movie (meaning it'll be a series if it does well) takes place between the Guerrilla and Armageddon games, focusing on Alec Mason's last surviving son Jake, who fights against a new human army dedicated to destroying the Red Faction. Somehow, Jake's sister has gotten involved with this group. We can assume because it's a SyFy movie that she's also been cursed to turn into a weresnake at night, or that she arrives on a train filled with spiders who have been snacking on nitroglycerin during the journey.

Along with the announcement of the movie, THQ sent out a new screenshot of Red Faction: Armageddon. Find it in the gallery below.

Red Faction: Armageddon

Reader Comments (24)

this might be the first syfy movie that i have a actual interest in.

@edge426 you serious? mega shark vs giant octopus is a classic!

@Zoidberg

Or the new movie there putting out, Sharktopus!

@sicsided

Sharktopus FTW

@edge426

you have to be some sorta hater to dislike the cheesy SyFy classics like Boa vs. Anaconda.

LOL,

If this isn't terrible I shall eat my own head.

Syfy. Because they want to keep the brand of SciFi but also look ridiculous and defensive about it.

P'Shaw.

BSG was great, but we're not talking about masterpiece theatre. I'll watch it anyway and since I expect the worst, can't be disappointed.

@Dustin F
Yeah. I read the article and was like, wtf; it says 'you may have a non-ironic interest in watching a SyFy original movie'.

how does that work? take a tv channel that doesn't seem to have a great reputation for original series. add the curse of being based on a video game, which is always a terrible idea. and that might make something people want to watch? why?

hoping that doomed combination will be the new contender for 'worst movie ever', which makes it sort of a talking point if you get to see it first?

just can't wait to spoil all your positive memories of the video game?

actual certified masochist?

all of the above?

:)

or that the next base he goes to has statues of gargoyles that come to life and are controled by a raptor goblin.

This has potential simply based on the fact that the Red Faction Mythology/Universe is really good.

Red Faction fanatics would enslave our sons, and prostitute our daughters!

I see this going the other way. Not only is it a syfy movie (a horrible subset of made for TV movies), but it's also a videogame movie. Short of being directed by Uwe Bolle and being simulcast to Lifetime, I don't think there's a worse pedigree for a 'film' to have.

Well, I guess it could star furries...

@DenebSwift

Believe it or not, Uwe has a decent movie out. It's called Rampage. It's still on netflix if you have it. I was shocked.

Obviously his sister secretly joined the new anti-red group, so she could infiltrate it and stop an army of giant space-Pirahna from reaching Mars, by gathering the groups best scientific minds to create an equally giant mechanical leg to just kick them.

How that has anything to do with anything at all? Beats me, but its SyFy, which means the plot doesn't have to be even remotely connected to the movie itself.

Besides, everyone loved megapirahnas, right...?

@DevilSei
Stop giving them ideas dammit

I hope its 100,000 times better than Mega shark vs mega octopus.....geeeeeeeeeeeez that was horrible......

This movie is being sent to die....

I'm sure it will be amazing like Doom.

oh i still watch them.

I'll be sure to check it out on SyFy, or as I like to call it, the LowBudgetMovieChannel

@ColorblindMonk

They ruin just about everything now.

Hey, we don't want to pay for FarScape anymore. Cancelled.
Hey, we don't want to pay for StarGate: SG-1 anymore. Cancelled.
Hey, Battlestar Galatica was a hit. Let's milk it by continously putting out spin-off movies and series.
Hey, let's put out a new version of StarGate, and make it like Battlestar Galactica!
Hey, we don't want to pay for two StarGate series, Cancel StarGate: Atlantis.
Hey, this StarGate: Universe sucks. Let's just tell people they don't get it!

Seriously, a sci-fi series where they remove sci-fi as the main plot, and focus it instead on "people drama" for the "younger crowd". The first 10 minutes had more sex than the entirety of StarGate: SG-1 and StarGate" Atlantis.

Oh, and let's not forget they put ECW on.

@Drakkenfyre

Meant for GErvy.

Has the SciFy network done ANYTHING decent?

They ruined DUNE.

@GErvy

Of course they have - they appropriately renamed themselves to an abbreviated version of syphilis. It's embarassing, itchy, a little painful, and pretty much nothing good comes of it.

I'd say its accurate.

They're still coasting on good will from BSG, and the scene from MS vs. GO where the shark eats the plane.

Red Faction: Armageddon

Red Faction: Origins movie to debut on SyFy in March 2011

Red Faction: Armageddon

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Posted: Jul 19th 2010 9:37AM edge426 said

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