Fortnite is a pretty big deal, developer and publisher Epic Games is somewhere close endless money every month thanks to expensive premium skins and a new $ 12 subscription service (Fortnite is clearly a ‘free’ video game), but Epic is now going to do something with all that money that doesn’t require funding bizarre and deafening attack advertisements against Apple. As reported by Deadline, the company supports an animated film by Latin American animation studio Hook Up and Argentinian production companies DuermeVela and FilmSharks through the $ 100 million Epic MegaGrants program. Rather than one Fortnite film about the banana man and Travis Scott (the two most famous Fortnite characters) fighting an army of teenagers who are much better at the game than them, but the project will actually be an original movie based on The Epic of Gilgamesh. The film is just one of the recipients of the substantial grant.
Deadline says the film will be released in Spanish and English, and that it will be made with Epic’s Unreal Engine. So don’t be surprised if it looks a bit like Fortnite, however The Mandalorian also uses the famous Unreal Engine to power its virtual sets. For those unfamiliar with the story of Gilgamesh, he was a figure in Mesopotamian mythology with a large beard who went through several heroic adventures, and his story served as inspiration for several other mythological stories of history (such as the Ilias and Odyssey).
There’s no word on when this could happen, and whether or not this movie will be available on Apple devices, but you know it’s coming when an expensive Gilgamesh skin shows up in Fortnite.