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Funimation, BioWare Work on Animated Dragon Age Film (Updated)
posted on by Egan Loo
Electronic Arts' BioWare game studio and the North American anime distributor Funimation have announced on Monday that they are collaborating on what they describe as an "anime feature film" based on BioWare's fantasy action role-playing game franchise Dragon Age. The film is slated to ship on home video in 2011. The film's executive producers are BioWare's Executive Producer Mark Darrah and Creative Director Mike Laidlaw, as well as FUNimation's president and CEO Gen Fukunaga and Director of Original Entertainment Chris Moujaes.
The film will be the first title from Funimation's Original Entertainment team and its co-production initiative.
Update: More background information added.
Update 2: The official Dragon Age channel on YouTube hosts a number of trailers and gameplay videos from the various games in the franchise. [Via Ain't It Cool News Anime]
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