Recent legal documents reveal Sony’s been quietly making moves to make its ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’ movie a reality.
Back in January, Sony announced a movie adaptation of Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn. Nothing has been said about the film since, but it sounds like there’s been enough progress that it may be a few years out.
Sony’s currently in a legal battle against Chinese tech giant Tencent over the latter’s Light of Motiram, which Sony claims is an explicit clone of its sci-fi RPG series. Per the Game Post, PlayStation Productions head Asad Qizilbash has said in a legal declaration filed Ocotber 16 that the studio “already [has] a working script, and [is] actively searching for a director, with the goal of shooting the picture in 2026 and releasing it in 2027.