In the 90s, Duke Nukem was a fairly cult video game franchise. The typical American product, rather redneck, with lots of testosterone, and numerous aliens to exterminate in order to destroy the world. Despite everything, Duke Nukem achieved a nice little success with some pretty good games.
Then, there was Duke Nukem Forever. The new installment in the series (and last to date), which took nearly 10 years to arrive. After chaotic development, several postponements and reboots, the title arrived on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in June 2011 and would be an unprecedented fiasco with an extremely bad title. A shipwreck that will mark the end of Duke Nukem, at least, until now.
Indeed, the return of the Duke would not be so far away, since Adi Shankar, the showrunner of the series Castlevania and Devil May Cry, has confirmed having acquired the rights to the license to exploit it soon.
A Duke Nukem series in preparation?
During an interview with Esquire, Adi Shankar, showrunner of the series Castlevania and Devil May Cry, confirmed that he had acquired the rights to the license from 2K Games and Gearbox. The goal would be to produce a Duke Nukem series or film in the coming years:
In recent years, (good) adaptations of games into films or series have helped boost game sales. Does this agreement between Shakar and Gearbox portend a return to video games for Duke Nukem? It's too early to confirm this at this point. We still don't have a possible release window for the project, which appears to be in its infancy.
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