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A Riders Republic Film Is in the Works From Bad Boys for Life Director Duo
Ubisoft’s extreme sports game Riders Republic is the latest in a long line of video games heading to the silver screen. The publisher announced today that a feature film adaptation of 2021’s Riders Republic is underway, and it already has a directorial duo seated behind the camera.
In a press release, Ubisoft Film & Television annnounced it’s partnering with Gaumont for the adaptation of Riders Republic. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the Belgian duo who directed Bad Boys for Life and Bad Boys: Ride or Die, are already signed on to direct.
The script adaptation will be penned by Noé Debré, whose credits include Stillwater and The World Is Yours.
Not much has been said about the direction, other than the adaptation is “poised to be an electrifying action movie, delivering non-stop thrills, humor, and spectacular stunts on the snowy slopes of the Alps,” per Ubisoft.
2021’s Riders Republic mixed elements of extreme sports simulation with open-world exploration, akin to Ubisoft’s The Crew games. “Riders Republic is an excellent, arcadey extreme sports sandbox with bonkers multiplayer events, an impressive open world, and unfortunate server issues,” wrote our reviewer in IGN’s 8/10 review of its launch version.
In the years since, Ubisoft has gradually added more to the experience, with Season 14 adding a Park Creator for players to form their own playgrounds. It certainly seems like players have been gradually poking away at Riders Republic over time.
As for a feature film adaptation, it remains to be seen what narrative might be concocted around all the extreme sports action. Hopefully there’s at least some sick tricks and crazy stunts, if nothing else.
Video game adaptations are certainly picking up in earnest, though. From box office successes like the Sonic and Mario movies, to recent attempts like Until Dawn, to upcoming adaptations like Clair Obscur and Death Stranding, everyone seems to be getting in on the video game adaptation trend. So why not Riders Republic?
Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.
Scarlett Johansson Calls Out Oscars For Snubbing Avengers: Endgame: ‘It Was An Impossible Film That Shouldn’t Have Worked’
Actress Scarlett Johansson has two Academy Award nominations under her belt, but she still can’t understand why Avengers: Endgame, which she starred in as Black Widow, didn’t walk away with more than its one nomination for visual effects.
“How did this film not get nominated for an Oscar?” Johansson wondered about the 2019 Marvel Cinematic Universe smash hit in a recent interview with Vanity Fair. “It was an impossible movie that should not have worked, that really works as a film — and also, it’s one of the most successful films of all time.”
Avengers: Endgame is certainly considered one of the best of the MCU outputs in recent years, but the Academy has rarely afforded top honors — such as the acting and directing categories for example — to superhero (or even genre) fare. In fact, the only Marvel film to date to snag a nomination is 2018’s Black Panther. That said, Johansson’s turn as Natasha Romanoff was pretty award-worthy, from her first appearance in 2010’s Iron Man to her death in Endgame.
However, the actress also told Vanity Fair that she most likely would never return to that world. “It would be very hard for me to understand in what capacity [returning] would make sense for me, for the character that I play,” she explained.
“I miss my buddies and really would love to be with them forever, but what works about the character is that her story is complete. I don’t want to mess with that. For fans, too — it’s important for them.”
After Black Widow’s death in Endgame, Johansson returned for one more spin as Romanoff. She starred in the prequel film Black Widow in 2021, which she also executive produced.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
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Hypocrisy on Parade: ABC Scrutinizes Trumps, Ignored Biden Family Deals
ABC’s Good Morning America had President Trump and his family under the microscope Wednesday as they dissected what they hinted was corruption during his trip to the Middle East. Democrat operative turned anchor George Stephanopoulos brazenly proclaimed: “We’ve never seen a mix of personal finance and diplomacy like we’re seeing on this trip and in the early months of this presidency.” But that’s not true; especially from the network that overlooked the corruption of the Biden family.
Anti-Republican chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce tried to portray Trump as a just a puppet of the crown price of Saudi Arabia with this highly edited hack-job on his speech:
TRUMP: I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness.
BRUCE: It’s a move, Trump says, came at the request of the Saudi crown prince.
TRUMP: Oh, what I do for the crown prince.
(…)
BRUCE: The Saudis giving Trump the royal treatment. The crown prince rolling out the lavender carpet. Trump piling on the praise.
TRUMP: I like him a lot. I like him too much. That’s why we give so much, you know? Too much. I like you too much.
She decried Trump’s “transactional approach to foreign relations based on making deals regardless of past history,” huffing that he was “embracing the Saudi crown prince years after U.S. intelligence concluded he orchestrated the murder of a Washington Post journalist, to forging ties with Putin.”
“But hanging over the visit, serious questions about Trump’s own business interests. His sons, who now run the Trump organization, have projects in the works in all three countries he’s visiting,” she proclaimed.
Stephanopoulos later questioned her about, “news this morning that a company with ties to the Chinese government is investing several hundred million dollars in one of the Trump family crypto businesses?” Bruce falsely called it “the President’s crypto currency business” while decrying that the Chinese company worked through TikTok, something ABC News had staunchly defended in the past.
As for Stephanopoulos’s lie that, “We’ve never seen a mix of personal finance and diplomacy like we’re seeing on this trip and in the early months of this presidency.” We have, during Biden presidency and during his vice presidency.
As NewsBusters had previously reported, ABC (along with the other broadcast networks) had censored testimony from a Hunter Biden business partner about the Biden “brand” they were selling. Nor did they report on the web of Biden family shell companies that received massive payments from foreign entities shortly after Vice President Joe Biden’s overseas trips and other shady dealings.
And on the rare occasions they did mention the Republican-led investigations, they downplayed them. That’s not to mention the fact that Hunter also worked closely with China helping them get access to a cobalt mine in the Congo and their gift to him of a massive diamond.
Stephanopoulos’s portrayal of what’s happening during the second Trump presidency was hypocrisy on parade.
The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:
ABC’s Good Morning America
May 14, 2025
7:09:59 a.m. Eastern
(…)
MARY BRUCE: The face to face coming hours after Trump announced he would lift sanctions on Syria, now that the Assad regime has crumbled.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness.
BRUCE: It’s a move, Trump says, came at the request of the Saudi crown prince.
TRUMP: Oh, what I do for the crown prince.
(…)
7:10:38 a.m. Eastern
BRUCE: The Saudis giving Trump the royal treatment. The crown prince rolling out the lavender carpet. Trump piling on the praise.
TRUMP: I like him a lot. I like him too much. That’s why we give so much, you know? Too much. I like you too much.
BRUCE: The President describing transactional approach to foreign relations based on making deals regardless of past history, from embracing the Saudi crown prince years after U.S. intelligence concluded he orchestrated the murder of a Washington Post journalist, to forging ties with Putin.
TRUMP: In recent years far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it’s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins.
BRUCE: But hanging over the visit, serious questions about Trump’s own business interests. His sons, who now run the Trump organization, have projects in the works in all three countries he’s visiting.
(…)
7:12:47 a.m. Eastern
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Mary, also news this morning that a company with ties to the Chinese government is investing several hundred million dollars in one of the Trump family crypto businesses?
BRUCE: Yeah, George, that’s exactly right. GD Culture Group, a small technology company with ties to China that operates on TikTok announcing plans to purchase up to 300 million of the Trump Bitcoin. They are just the latest business are foreign ties to jump into the President’s crypto currency business.
And all of this is coming while the President is working on a deal to allow TikTok to continue operating in the U.S. Ethics experts are sounding the alarm about conflicts of interest, but the White House insists the President is following the law.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Yeah. We’ve never seen a mix of personal finance and diplomacy like we’re seeing on this trip and in the early months of this presidency. Mary Bruce, thanks very much.
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