Quibi plays games with Scott

Shortform video platform Quibi is developing a gaming drama series executive produced by European financier Anton, Stigma Films and Ridley Scott.

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Curs_r will be directed by Toby Meakins (Bite Size Horror) and is written by Simon Allen (The Watch, Das Boot, The Musketeers).

Matthew James Wilkinson (Yesterday, Amulet) is producing the series, which follows the pursuit of an unclaimed US$100,000 prize, for which a broke student decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game.

“The game curses her reality with terrifying choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she soon realises she’s no longer playing for the money, but for her own life as the game locks her into an inescapable cycle of mind-bending horror,” the producers said.

Scott, who has been behind hits such as science-fiction horror film Alien and neo-noir dystopian film Blade Runner, said the series “promises to break new boundaries in the horror genre.”

“With all of the many platforms on which one can now show content, including the groundbreaking new format at Quibi, this is an extraordinary time to be a filmmaker,” added Scott.

Quibi launches in the US on April 6 next year and has been steadily building up a slate of shortform projects since being announced by former Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman.