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Home News THQ Cancels Guillermo del Toro's Insane Mid-Production

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THQ Cancels Guillermo del Toro's Insane Mid-Production

Posted on Monday, August 6 @ 15:22:44 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

Today's THQ investor call was very ordinary, and that's not necessarily a good thing. The publisher has been the king of bad news for months now, and today it only got worse.

Guillermo del Toro's Insane has been completely canceled. THQ's President Jason Rubin broke the news by stating the following:

We have decided not to pursue further pre-production on Insane, and have returned all of our IP rights to Guillermo del Toro...

Insane was announced almost two years ago at the Spike Video Game Awards and was scheduled to release next year making this a tragic loss for THQ.

The worst part about all of this was Insane was being developed by Volition, Inc. and was supposed to be an ambitious survival-horror game. The genre hasn't been particularly competitive this generation so Insane could have been a fantastic opportunity for THQ to make an impact with a new IP.

Guillermo del Toro sounded very excited to work on the project when it was first announced, and its premise was compelling. However, unless he can find a new publisher to fund his project then chances are we'll never see his vision to fruition.
Related Games:   Insane
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  • Klandathu
    Klandathu
    Joined: Apr 2008
    Posted: Aug 6th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
    Everything del Toro touches is gold and I really hope he can find someone to pick this up. I don't suspect he'll have TOO much trouble with that though. He has a reputation built around delivering a top quality product with high production values and I would expect nothing less, even if it's from a video game he's involved with.
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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Aug 6th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
    So they took everyone's money and canceled the game? Who could have seen this coming?!
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  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Aug 6th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
    Our children will tell ghost stories of this travesty.
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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Aug 6th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
    "It's an atrocismicy!"
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  • Stickyellowsock
    Stickyellowsock
    Joined: Oct 2009
    Posted: Aug 6th, 2012 at 4:15 pm
    THQ better start on that headstone
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  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Aug 6th, 2012 at 7:11 pm
    Damn it, first The Hobbit, then this ****.
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  • dirty_f
    dirty_f
    Joined: Nov 2010
    Posted: Aug 6th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
    At least he has kept the rights to the game. I'm sure it won't be too hard for him to find a publisher with the resume he's got.
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  • Noritama
    Noritama
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Aug 6th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
    I was pretty excited to see this come to light. Now Im sadden.
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