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News From BBSpot:

Lion’s Gate Films, which had secretly acquired a few years ago the rights to produce a Zork movie, has announced that it will be released in summer 2009.

The movie is set in a first-person perspective, and will be filmed in full text video, and narrated by Morgan Freeman.

Morgan Freeman Will Protect Your From The Grue

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire was an interactive fiction computer game published by Infocom in 1980. It was the first game in the popular Zork trilogy and was released for a wide range of computer systems.

“I’m glad they are keeping true to the spirit of the game. Had they given it to Uwe Boll, it would have been a nonstop frenzy of exploding grues,” commented Dan Pewters, who has been playing Zork for over 17 years.

Gerald Hemmingway, team leader of the visual effects team hired for the movie, explained, “Using the wider movie screens, we’ll have much less text-wrapping, and be able to fit in more action onto the screen simultaneously. This is something the fans of Zork should be looking forward to.”

An Exciting Scene from The Movie Zork! NonStop Text Action!

The studio promises that this will be the most faithful video game to reproduction ever made. “It’ll be like Morgan Freeman is sitting behind you reading the game as you play the perfect game. We think it’ll be a dream come true for most Zorkers or Zorkies or whatever they call themselves,” said Lion’s Gate CEO Beverly Crocker.

OK, This story is fake. But we wish it wasn’t!!

We remember playing Zork on the C64. The good old days before first person shooters!