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We Happy Few indie game to get a movie adaptation

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Creativity is coming out of indie game makers, and Hollywood is paying attention. Variety reported today that We Happy Few is going to get a movie adaptation.

Gold Circle Entertainment, which helped produce Pitch Perfect, has acquired the rights to We Happy Few and is in the early sage of making a movie.

Compulsion Games has launched We Happy Few in Early Access on Steam for the PC. The survival horror game takes place in an alternative 1960s where the government drugs its citizens to make them happy and keep them oblivious to crime.

After Microsoft showed a demo of the zany game at E3 2016, We Happy Few went viral on social media, and it turned out to be the highest-rated game from the Microsoft E3 press event.

Compulsion Games has partnered with dj2 Entertainment to make the movie. The single-player game is coming out on the PC and the Xbox One.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.