THQ's Danny Bilson reveals the universe of Red Faction media
by Mike Schramm
on Jul 26th 2010 3:50PM
THQ's Core Games VP Danny Bilson contributed to a panel with a few Syfy execs this past weekend at Comic-Con, along with Andrew Kreisberg, writer for the upcoming
Red Faction: Origins movie. The panel was about
"transmedia" in general and
Red Faction specifically, with THQ being a prime example of a company trying to tell (and sell) a universe's stories across multiple platforms and media. The way it's all going to work is that
Red Faction Guerilla starred Alex Mason,
Red Faction: Origins will star his son and daughter Jake and Myra, and then
Red Faction Armageddon will star Darius Mason, Alex's grandson.
Kriesberg revealed that the movie will feature "three sort of main factions," and that "they're all sort of right. Everyone thinks this is their planet, and that's what makes the drama." Kriesberg shared one line from the movie that he believes wraps up a major theme: "It's hard to win a war, because the winners have to clean up."
Bilson also mentioned
the upcoming downloadable game, and said that one of the factions from the movie, the White Faction, will have "elements" in the XBLA and PSN title. Bilson said that THQ's got "two more of these" transmedia properties "in the hopper" -- we presume he means
Saints Row and
de Blob, both
previously revealed to be in progress.