Ruiner Video Game Being Adapted Into Movie, Wes Ball Will Direct

A Ruiner movie is in the works from Universal.

Developed by Reikon Games, Ruiner was initially released in September 2017. The twin-stick shooter video game takes place in the year 2901 in a futuristic cyberpunk city called Rengkok.

“The game follows a wired psychopath who fights against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother,” the official synopsis for the game reads. “Under the guidance of a mysterious hacker, he battles through a world of brutal violence and cutting-edge technology, inching closer to the dark secrets hidden within the city’s neon-lit streets.”

Per Variety, Universal Pictures has now acquired the rights to adapt Ruiner into a feature-length movie.

Wes Ball is attached to direct the Ruiner movie. Ball’s filmography includes 2014’s The Maze Runner, 2015’s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, 2018’s Maze Runner: The Death Cure, and, most recently, 2024’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which is now available to stream on Hulu.

Ball is also attached to direct a live-action Legend of Zelda movie for Nintendo and Sony Pictures. The film does not yet have a release date at this time.

What else do we know about Wes Ball and Universal’s Ruiner movie?

The screenplay is being written by Michael Arlen Ross, who penned the script for David Yarovesky’s upcoming movie, Locked, which stars Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins, among others.

Producers for the movie include Kelly McCormick and David Leitch for 87North, Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg for Story Kitchen, and Ball and Joe Hartwick Jr. for Oddball. Timothy I. Stevenson, Dan Jevons, Marek Roefler, Magdalena Tomkowicz, and Jakub Stylinski serve as executive producers. Ryan Jones and Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project for Universal.

No casting or release date information for the Ruiner movie adaptation has been announced at this time.

Brandon Schreur

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