Fortnite is a pretty big deal, developer and publisher Epic Games is earning somewhere in the vicinity of infinite money every month due to expensive premium sheets and a new $ 12 subscription service (Fortnite is a ‘free’ video game, obviously), but Epic is now going to do something with all the money that does not involve funding bizarre and tone-deaf attack ads against Apple. As reported by Deadline, supports the company an animated film by Latin American animation studio Hook Up and Argentine production companies DuermeVela and FilmSharks through its $ 100 million Epic MegaGrants program. Rather than a Fortnite movie about the banana man and Travis Scott (the two most famous Fortnite characters) who fight an army of teenagers who play better than them, but the project will actually be an original film based on The email from Gilgamesh. The film is only one of the recipients of the substantial award.
Deadline says that the film will be released in Spanish and English, and that it will be made using Epic’s Unreal Engine – so do not be surprised if it looks a bit Fortnitehowever The Mandalorian also uses the Unreal Engine to power its virtual sets. For those unfamiliar with Gilgamesh’s story, he was a figure in Mesopotamian mythology with a large beard who went on various heroic adventures, and his story was an inspiration for various mythological stories from history (such as the Ilias and Odyssey).
There’s no word on when that might happen, whether the movie will be available on Apple devices or not, but you’ll know it’s coming as an expensive Gilgamesh sheet appears Fortnite.