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In an effort to give Netflix and Amazon a run for their money, Microsoft is looking to bring original programming to Xbox Live. Called Xbox Originals, the company is looking to create new and original content. Now, we’re pretty sure that it won’t be entirely based only on video game franchises, but seeing as how this is Microsoft, they do have some names to throw around. One of those series – obviously – is Halo. Others include Gears of War, Forza, Fable, Age of Empires, and perhaps more interestingly, State of Decay.
This isn’t to say that the decision has been made and is set in stone. I mean, how do you make a live-action series based on Age of Empires?
Executive vice president of Xbox Entertainment Studios Jordan Levin told Destructoid
These are six properties that we have immediately identified as having potential, that the company has raised as ones that they’re interested in looking at. All are at the earliest stages of conversation, we don’t want to force anything, we want to get to know each of the individual games’ studios responsible for these properties.
We want to fully digest all the created materials that they’ve generated. We want to then try to create some of the right partnerships and really allow them to ride in the shotgun seat with us, so to speak, so that we’re not coming in an arrogant and disrespectful manner. Trying to do something that in success enhances and expresses that world in a different way cause the worst of all possible roles is to create something that disappointed. There’s nothing worse for a fan than being disappointed with something.
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