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Tandem Pictures Simultaneously Developing Megan Suri-Led Live-Action Video Game ‘Great Northern’ and Its Indie Film Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)


Tandem Pictures is making its first move into the gaming space with a project that will pull double duty as a live-action video game and an indie film.

Starring “Never Have I Ever” and “Companion” actress Megan Suri, “ Great Northern ” tells the “bold story of a young woman riding her motorcycle across the country to Alaska to scatter her father’s ashes, per the game’s description. Founded in 2010 by Christeas, production company Tandem Pictures, which has a special focus on elevating social-justice and climate-change stories, has previously produced films including “Black Bear,” written and directed by Lawrence Michael Levine starring Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott, “The Surrogate,” featuring Jasmine Batchelor, Nicolas Pesce’s directorial debut “The Eyes of My Mother,” and “The Sleepwalker.” Up next, Tandem’s new Anna Camp and Justin Bartha-led film “Nuked,” which follows a group of friends who get together for a cannabis-infused, technology free, dinner party only to learn a nuclear bomb is headed right for them, releases in July.

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