Prototype Movie Trailer Isn't What You Think It Is

There’s a movie coming out next year called The Prototype. It stars a “man” in a hoodie who is on the run, being hunted for his extraordinary powers. Combine the plot with the name and you’d be forgiven yono business sbi for assuming it’s a movie about Activision’s Prototype series. But it’s not. The Prototype the movie is about a military robot that escapes containment, and has to defend itself while on the run, all the while playing around with ideas of what it is to be human.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5920938","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); It looks interesting. And the robot itself looks great, falling somewhere between Mike Mignola’s Kroenen (from Hellboy) and Mass Effect’s Geth. But that name, huh? Sure, it’s got a “the” in yono business front of it, but as I bet you thought that headline suggested this was an adaptation of Activision’s open-world series, so too have a ton of other people (check the clip’s YouTube comments, if you dare). The fact it stars a killer with special powers wearing a hoodie to disguise his face only makes things more confusing. While this isn’t a legal issue, it might be a pain for publishers and developers should this movie ever see a video game tie-in. Which, given the nature of the film, the combat and even the presence of an established first-person perspective, isn’t a crazy assumption, especially if the movie is a hit. Fun fact: the rummy meet leading “man” is played by Joseph Mawle, who you may know most recently as Benjin Stark on Game of Thrones