Red Faction: Origins is a SyFy-exclusive live-action TV movie that will be released in March of 2011 in order to promote the upcoming Red Faction: Armageddon videogame.
That game is the follow-up to THQ’s surprise hit, Red Faction Guerrilla, which successfully rebooted the long-dormant first-person shooter franchise based around environmental destruction.
The movie will be the possible pilot to a TV series IF it goes over well. Could you imagine if Red Faction actually becomes the new “Stargate SG-1” for SyFy? We’ll see….
The TV series will seek to shed some light on the plot of the upcoming game and link the two games together. It tells the story of Alec Mason’s “last surviving son”, named Jake.
Story
“Twenty-five years have passed since Alec Mason led the Martian Colonies to freedom…and ten years since vengeful enemies killed his wife, kidnapped his daughter Lyra, and left a broken hero in their wake.
Jake Mason, Alec’s last surviving son and a ranger in the Red Faction Militia, had never abandoned hope that somewhere in the raw outlands of Mars, his sister was still alive. Now, just as a powerful new enemy swarms across the planet, he’s found her, only to learn…
…that his long lost sister is one of them…a cold-blooded soldier sworn to destroy the Red Faction and conquer the planet in the name of a madman. Jake must now battle the relentless regime and somehow reunite a family torn apart by war.”
Sound intriguing to you? It’ll be interesting to see how well this series does, as it may be the first-ever based on a videogame that wasn’t animated. Right? At least I can’t recall any other live-action TV shows based on games.