Stan Winston Joins AREA 51 Videogame/Movie

By: SCOTT COLLURA
Date: Friday, August 02, 2002
Source: Comingsoon.net

Oscar winning make-up artist, creature designer, special effects maestro, and overall Hollywood magician Stan Winston has landed a deal, through his company Stan Winston Studio, along with Midway Games Inc. to develop a videogame tentatively called AREA 51. Winston's team's chief responsibility in development of the game will be to design the aliensa staple, one guesses, of any project called AREA 51.

The game, which Stan Winston Productions has also acquired exclusive movie adaptation rights to, is expected to ship in 2004 for the PlayStation 2, the Xbox and the GameCube. What shape the movie version will takeand whenis unclear at this time.

Still no news, however, on the much-wished for Spielberg/Lucas/Coppola teaming to develop a movie based on the '80s arcade game ZOO KEEPER.

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