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Masi Oka creates a MMORPG-based movie “The Defenders”

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 · Filed Under Masi Oka, The Defenders, World of Warcraft

Masi Oka, who played a space-time manipulator geek in NBC “Heroes”, has conceived a movie titled “The Defenders” for Dreamworks. It revolves around Online RPG gamers from all parts of the world and they never envisioned that a certain mission given to them would make them super heroes in real life. Masi Oka professes to be a big fan of World of Warcraft” and also revealed they are also making a game based on the movie.

More revelations of this geek after the cut…

Oka, who will exec produce, came up with idea while playing MMORPGs — massively multiplayer online role-playing games, in that world’s parlance.

“You can be whoever you want to be,” he said. “The question came to me: What if you had to live up to the person you created in the virtual world?”

Oka had met Kurtzman and Orci, whose Kurtzman/Orci Prods. is based at DreamWorks, at parties and taken a couple of meetings with them, hoping to score a role in one of their movies.

The pair was looking for “the kinds of movies that Amblin used to do, that combined an innocence with the adventure,” Orci said.

Added Kurtzman, “We are staunch believers there are ways to update the tone of these movies.”

Once Oka, also a fan of those movies — epitomized by “The Goonies” — learned that, he pitched Kurtzman and Orci his idea. The duo went for it, and Oka has honed the concept for the past year, collaborating with them as they worked on “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” Kurtzman/Orci’s Mandy Safavi also helped develop “Defenders” and will oversee for the company.

Oka and Whitta, who also plays online games, bonded over their love of the medium’s “World of Warcraft.” Kurtzman and Orci ensnared Caruso, with whom they worked on the 2008 thriller “Eagle Eye.”

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/

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