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Ohhhh wow.  Okay, folks, sit down for this one, because this is some SWEET news that’s already got me hunting in the couch cushions for ticket money.

Seems Jerry Bruckheimer’s got it in his head to try and do a remake of the old PC game Shattered Union, in which Washington D.C. gets nuked and the remaining states collapse into their own regional nation-states, with the Europeans insisting that we get our act together.  Meanwhile the Russians are using the resultant melees to retake Alaska.

It’s a pretty complex idea, and putting Jerry Bruckheimer in charge of it assumes that major portions of the backstory will be smoothly glossed over in favor of more bang-bang.  I say “major portions”, of course, this isn’t a MICHAEL BAY movie, after all–there’ll be some story in here too.

But is this too narrow a concept?  Is Bruckheimer counting on the gamers only to show up in droves?  Will that be enough?  We’ll be waiting quite some time to find out-the project is still in development.

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