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White Wolf’s Orpheus
“Science thinks its shattered the barrier between life and death, but its only opened the floodgates. Stopmeddling with the affairs of ghosts and close the doors before something follows you back through. You should have left some secrets buried,
because now they wont go back to sleep without a fight! Its called projecting, the ability to separate the soul from the body and interact with ghosts. Its a multi-billion dollar enterprise for companies like the Orpheus Group, which offers its services to public and private interests. Its also a portent of dark things to come. Orpheus is a new type of game, a ghost story for ghosts told in a six-book limited series.”
- You can download the PDF White Wolf has prepared for Orpheus for retailers.
Rifts Movie
Palladium Books® announces Rifts® Movie deal
May 8, 2003 – Palladium Books is pleased to announce it has entered into an option agreement with Walt Disney Pictures to have Jerry Bruckheimer Films develop a live action, major motion picture of the Rifts® role-playing game.
Jerry Bruckheimer Films has produced some of the biggest blockbusters in film history, including such hits as, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Blackhawk Down, and the hotly anticipated Pirates of the Caribbean. We expect exciting days ahead and look forward to working with Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney.
“Obviously you don’t get any bigger or better than these two giants in the film industry,” said Kevin Siembieda, President of Palladium Books Inc., “We’re thrilled.”
In addition to producing, Disney will be handling licensing for the film. Surge Comic Properties’ President, Mark Freedman, of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles® marketing fame, is handling the licensing and merchandising based on the Rifts® role-playing game series.
Rifts® creator, Kevin Siembieda, will be present at the Palladium Booth throughout the 2003 Origins Game Convention, June 26-29, in Columbus Ohio, where he will be glad to talk about Palladium’s future and taking Rifts® mainstream. This is likely to be the only convention Mr. Siembieda will be attending this year.
- You can visit Palladium’s website.
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