| deerox said: Timur Bekmambetov is doing the adaption and he's a pretty major person in the industry so it probably will get made, but most likely without any connection to Animal Crossing. |
That's it, this is all just marketing. He said that he would adapt this short film that happens to feature Animal Crossing, but he didn't mention the name of the game at all (if I'm not wrong), because he knew that the media would automatically link both and then make a lot more buzz that if he just said that he was going to make a horror movie in which the terror element was a video game (without specifying which one). Thus, when this movie gets released, it will be referred by many as the movie that was born from an Animal Crossing short film and a lot more people will want to watch it just because of that.
Well, that's at least my theory - one that I took out of my ass, but which makes sense, given how things usually work.
I'm mostly a lurker now.
