10 years after he was first attached to the project, It and The Flash director Andrés Muschietti says he still has plans for Sony’s Shadow of the Colossus film adaptation.
The Shadow of the Colossus film has been, it is fair to say, a long time coming. We first got wind of an adaptation all the way back in 2009, when it was suggested that creator Fumito Ueda would be involved in some capacity. Chronicle director Josh Trank then joined the project in 2012, but this still didn’t seem to kick the film into any sort of gear. The following year, Sony then hired Hanna writer Seth Lochhead to pen the script for the adaptation.
In 2014, it was then revealed Trank had left the project to head to a galaxy far, far away instead (nothing sinister, just Star Wars). At this time, Muschietti was announced to be taking over the reins from Trank. But, like I said, that was in 2014. So, it has been over a decade since Muschietti was first brought on to direct the still non-existent Shadow of the Colossus film.
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And yet there is still hope, despite a very long period of absolutely no news whatsoever. Muschietti has now said he still has plans for the adaptation, and there is a script. In a conversation with programme “La Baulera del Coso” on Radio TU, Muschietti assured listeners the film was not “an abandoned project by any means” (thanks, TheGamer).