Update May 15, 2017: Eidos Montreal’s studio head has quashed the rumour of another Thief game.
Last week, movie site Straight Up Films reported that “a fifth sequel” in the Thief franchise is “currently in development” and will be released to coincide with the forthcoming movie. Today, a sarcastic tweet by Eidos Montreal studio head David Anfossi heaps scorn on the rumour.
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Here’s the tweet. Anfossi implies that Thief 5 doesn’t have a team or a budget, and then there’s the phrase “forget it”. Seems he doesn’t think much of Straight Up Films’ suggestion, which, at time of writing, is still live on their page about the Thief movie.
Apparently we’re developing Thief 5 game! So now we have a title… We just have to build a team,a budget… Forget it! @EidosMontrealpic.twitter.com/suiAgcK7sU
— David Anfossi (@DavidAnfossi) May 15, 2017
If you didn’t know the Thief movie was happening, here’s our coverage of its announcement.
Last we heard, Eidos Montreal will work on to the second game in Square’s deal with Marvel after finishing the next Tomb Raider game. The Deus Ex franchise has been put on hold to accommodate that decision.
Original story May 11, 2017: As wereported in Marchlast year, there’s a Thief movie in the works. It’s being handled by Straight Up Films, with a screenplay written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes (Misconduct, Not Safe for Work), though there’s no director signed on just yet.
This is old news, then. Still, Straight Up Films recently updated their site to give a bit more information on the movie, posting the following blurb:
“Thief is an action epic poised to be the next great multi-platform franchise. Originally released in 1998 by Eidos Interactive (Deus Ex) and distributed by Square Enix (Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy), the Thief series has spanned over fifteen years and four sequels continually retaining loyal audiences and attracting new fans with each iteration.
“Widely considered to be one of the greatest games ever created, a fifth sequel is currently in development to be released in step with this motion picture adaptation. Steeped in the steampunk world created by the videogame, the film will tell a new chapter in the storied world of the series’ hero.”
Yep, they reckon there’s another Thief game in the works. This seems a bit strange, especially since the last one didn’t do all that well. I mean, Square Enix dropped Hitman developers Io Interactive for falling short of expectations just this morning.
Still, I’d be up for seeing the series tackled again. It definitely deserves a good modern iteration, but it exists in a very strange place right now. Obviously there’s been nothing official from Square Enix yet, so it could be rubbish, but I’d wager that the film studio was banking on that release refreshing interest in their movie.
Cheers, Game Informer.
Following a botched job that killed his apprentice, Garrett wakes up to find the City he thought he knew changed, and not for the better. The mysterious Gloom sickness plagues an already diseased and contentious population.
Into this volatile mix appears a man claiming to have a cure for both the Gloom and the Baron's iron rule. Orion, voice of the people, hires Garrett to find a book he claims is the key to saving the City from the Gloom. Garrett soon finds that things are not as they appear and he's more wrapped up in events than he ever believed possible. TriviaThis marks the first time that Stephen Russell does not provide the voice for Garrett. There was an online petition to bring Russel back as Garrett's voice actor, but it did not come to fruition.
Eidos stated two reasons for this change of voice actor. Firstly, they said that Russel's voice as it is presently did not match Thief well anymore. Secondly it was that the voice actors now had to do a lot of their own stunts, assisted with motion-capture devices, which again left Russell mismatched to the part. I am really surprised to see the bad reviews of this game. I found it really pulled you in, made you feel like you were sneaking around the streets. I found the graphics and game play fantastic, remembering the how they were on the older versions.
The only thing i found disappointing about it, is the fact the decided to close the division and not make any expansions. Perhaps the story line could have done with some work, but from what i took away, was the intention to expand on the story with sequels, which it seems we will unfortunately never see. In my opinion, it as a great game, people who have played the older games, must play this one.