Ubisoft did something bold. Instead of making some level pack for Far Cry 3’s multiplayer or adding a new weapon through downloadable content, the publisher decided to produce a standalone spinoff called Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. This love letter to premium-cable schlock soaks gamers in blood, explosions, and love for ’80s “B” action films.
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“Dean called me last night. He was pretty jacked up,” Biehn told Microsoft spokesperson Major Nelson in an interview. “I think he wants to turn it into some sort of franchise. He’s got a sequel in mind.”
A sequel isn’t the only thing that the director has in mind. Evans has plans to reach outside the realm of video games.
“He can be talking about the video game, the sequel, the sequel to that, and immediately move into movies,” said Biehn.
Evans wants to take Rex “Power” Colt and the digitally interlaced world of Blood Dragon into multiple films that explore different takes on the universe.
“He starts talking about movies he wants to do and different timelines on the movies he wants to do,” said Biehn. He has so many ideas coming out of his head that he can hardly contain them.
We’ve reached out to Ubisoft for comment. We will update this post with its response.
On Twitter, Evans poured a tiny bit of cooling fluid on the idea of a Blood Dragon sequel. He suggested that he is mostly just talking:
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@GameRant I've also spoken to people about my lust to remake Technocop… Doesn't mean it's gonna happen.
— Dean Evans (@SpleenZilla) May 5, 2013
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a first-person shooter set in the far-flung “future” of 2007. It is an homage to the many cheap ripoffs of Terminator that saturated the film market in the 1980s.
If Evans does succeed in producing a sequel, I’m wondering how he will go about naming something like that. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon 2? Far Cry 3: Blood Dragons? BD2?