Reactor Motors – the Ethereum NFT collection containing 8,888 images of high-end racing cars – is being turned into a film, the company behind the digital version announced late Thursday. The Reactor Motors film is helmed by veteran director Pierre Morel, who also directed Taken and Transporter 2.
The Reactor Motors film tells the story of geophysicist Eva Mason, who discovers Reykium in a volcano in Iceland, leading to clean energy racing cars. Mason’s discovery attracts the attention of an energy conglomerate that will do anything to get their hands on Reykium.
Bundlie said Morel and his business partner were attracted to the knowledge behind Reactor Motors that led to the partnership.
“Racing is definitely something that I think is fun because it’s international – everyone can understand it,” said Mike Bundlie, creator of Reactor Motors and co-founder of Abstract Entertainment. Declutter. “I think it’s important that ideas aren’t too culturally specific, in the sense that ideally it’s something that everyone can understand.
“With Reactor, the goal was to combine the comics community with the racing community and the technology and gaming community,” he added.
As Bundlie explains, Reactor Motors was announced at what would have been Stan Lee’s 100th birthday party, first as a comic book and then as a game.
Louis Leterrier, director of Marvel Studio’s The Incredible Hulk, Now You See Me and 2008’s Fast
Bundlie said that thanks to a financial stake in the project, the timeline for a cast reveal should happen later this year. He added that Reactor Motors would be a high-budget independent film, but one that wouldn’t break the bank of a studio.
“It’s fun…it fits right in between a high-end indie and a low-end studio,” Bundlie said. “This now makes it much more attractive to studios, who are getting snapped up by these $200 million behemoths.”
While a Hollywood blockbuster would be fun, Bundlie said the main goal is to reinvigorate the NFT market and bring new intellectual properties to the screen.
“There is no reason that NFTs should only live in the crypto space,” he said.
“At their core, NFTs are just another form of art… as such, they should be able to become IP themselves,” he continued. “There is no reason that a movie has to come exclusively from a comic book or a novel.”
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.