Kingdom Come: Deliverance Director Daniel Vávra Steps Away From Game Development to Focus on Making a Kingdom Come: Deliverance Movie

Daniel Vávra, manager of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance franchise, is leaving crippled improvement to absorption connected making a Kingdom Come: Deliverance movie.

In an interrogation with Czech tract CzechCrunch (via VGC), workplace caput Martin Frývaldský revealed that Vávra was stepping distant from processing Warhorse Studios' adjacent crippled to absorption connected Kingdom Come: Deliverance's big-screen adaptation.

"Dan has a caller role. That’s the instauration of the Kingdom Come movie," Frývaldský said (via instrumentality translation). "We person been moving the Kingdom Come marque distant from video games for immoderate clip now. So acold we person been successful comics, concerts, and tourism, but the movie has attracted america the most. That is wherefore Dan and I are moving connected getting it onto the surface oregon the large screen. There is besides a draught script."

"I'm definite radical volition wonderment if this is immoderate benignant of breakup with Warhorse," helium added, "No, connected the contrary, Dan himself wanted to determination on. He made 3 games that were a planetary success, helium has been wanting to effort thing antithetic for a agelong time. Getting Kingdom Come to the surface [...] successful the adjacent fewer years is different milestone that we privation to achieve, and that is Dan's caller role. You won't spot him successful the bureau each time anymore, but successful a broader consciousness helium is inactive portion of Warhorse."

Asked for the latest connected those plans to accommodate Kingdom Come: Deliverance for the large screen, Frývaldský said: "For a agelong time, radical were astir america who would similar to marque a movie of KCD, but past Covid came and everything fell asleep. Now, aft the merchandise of the 2nd game, we person returned to the thought with overmuch greater drive.

"We consciousness the involvement from the movie world, negotiations are already underway. We don't conscionable privation to merchantability the rights, we privation the movie to beryllium what we ideate it to be."

Frývaldský suggested that Vávra's caller occupation rubric could beryllium thing similar transmedia manager arsenic the squad pushes to grow the franchise beyond games.

The archetypal Kingdom Come: Deliverance video game, released successful 2018, was a smash hit, selling implicit 10 cardinal copies. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 came retired past twelvemonth and has truthful acold sold implicit 5 cardinal copies.

IGN's Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 reappraisal returned a 9/10. We said: "Armed with fantabulous melee combat and an exceptional story, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is 1 portion sequel and 1 portion coronation, bringing a batch of the original's ideas to fruition."

If you're wondering conscionable however overmuch has changed successful Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 since the crippled released successful aboriginal 2025, we've got you covered.

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