The academy award-winning visual effect studio Weta Workshop is opening a gaming division to work a massive franchise.
The special effects powerhouse is known in the movie industry for its work on Avatar, Thor: Ragnarok, Mad Mad: Fury Road, and of course, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now, Weta Workshop is setting into video games. In a peculiar job posting first noticed by Gamespot, the studio appears to be working on something big.
“We are currently looking for an exceptionally talented Game Producer to join our team in beautiful Wellington,” reads the job posting on Weta’s website. “The role will help us deliver our next PC and Console game project with a major worldwide IP that is very close to our hearts.”
Whatever this project is, development seems to have only just begun, as the job post also says, “Get in on the ground of this exciting next phase here in the Interactive team at Weta Workshop!”
The Orcs of Moria were designed to be a variant of the regular Orcs. Leaning into the idea that they spend their days running through the dark underground, we designed them to be slighter in build with bulging, light-sensitive eyes 👀 #orctober #lotr pic.twitter.com/61qJyEe3ec
— Wētā Workshop (@WetaWorkshop) October 12, 2021
“Our next PC release is an incredibly rich and inspiring license that will fill fans and players around the world with delight,” Weta Workshop said on its Facebook page.
Unity Technologies recently acquired Weta Digital, so this might be related to all that. All I’m asking for is remasters of The Two Towers and Return of the King games that were on the PS2 — Gandalf would surely call it a fool’s hope.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
