Entertainment of Wednesday, 12 October 2016Source: hollywoodreporter.comHollywood to produce movie based on Cameroonian's gameAfrican Video Game 'AurionThe African fantasy role-playing game Aurion: Legacy of theKori-Odan is getting the movie treatment via Good Fear Film. The company, run by Chris Bender and Jake Weiner, have picked up the rights to the game that was created by Madiba Olivier, the founder of Cameroon-based Kiro’o Games. With traveling to the U.S. not an option due to a lack of funds, he learned to code and design games and, upon graduating from the University of Yaounde in 2009, set about building a video game company. His achievements got the attention of the U.S. State Department, which selected him to participate in the 2016 Mandela Washington Fellowship Program, launched by President Barack Obama as part of the Young African Leaders Initiative. “My team and I are very excited to see our game become a movie in Hollywood.

Source: CameroonWeb October 12, 2016 14:34 UTC