Sony Pictures Classics has selected the rights to an animated film called Winter’s Journey, part of which will be made using the PlayStation game engine Dreams. Based on Limit line, the film will combine live actors with hand-drawn CG and animation and is an adaptation of Franz Schubert’s 24-song voice and piano set called Winterreise. It tells the story of a lovelorn poet who embarks on a perilous journey that takes him across mountains and snow in 1812 Bavaria.
Dreams Originally created by Media Molecule, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet, for PS4. From the very beginning, the studio advertised it as a way to create “artwork, movies and video games,” and we once described it as “a tool, set of learning apps, and background distribution platform combined into one.” Since then, people have been using it to create their own games, practically haunting of nature, immersive experience their favorite movies, among different things. Winter’s Journey, however, will be the first time Dreams to be used on a feature film.
The film does not yet have a release date, but is scheduled to begin filming in June in Wrocław, Poland, with actors including John Malkovich and Jason Isaacs. It may be a while before the movie is ready to release. For Dreams itself, it is currently on sale in US PlayStation Store for $10 and it includes a rotating list of the most innovative games made with this engine.
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