Taken Director to Helm Ethereum NFT Collection Reactor Motors Film

Reactor Motors – an Ethereum NFT collection containing images of 8,888 high-end racing cars – is being turned into a movie, the company behind the digital announced late Thursday. The Reactor Motors film will be helmed by veteran director Pierre Morel, who directed Tak and Transport 2.

The film Reactor Motors tells the story of geophysicist Eva Mason who discovers rhenium in a volcano in Iceland, leading to clean energy racing cars. Mason's discovery attracts the attention of an energy conglomerate who will do anything to get their hands on Requiem.

Bundlie said Morrell and his business partner were interested in the story behind Reactor Motors, which led to the partnership.

Mike Bandley, creator of Reactor Motors and founder of Abstract Entertainment, told Decrypt: “I think racing is great because it's universal and everyone can understand it. I think, ideally, it's something that everyone can understand, so it's important that ideas aren't culture-specific.”

“The goal with Reactor was to combine the comic book community with the racing community with the tech and gaming community,” he added.

As Bundlie explained, Reactor Motors was first announced as a comic book, then as a game, at what would have been Stan Lee's 100th birthday party.

Louis Leterrier, director of Marvel Studio's 2008 The Incredible Hulk, Now You See Me and Fast X, will join Bundley in creating the Reactor Motors film.

Thanks to Bundlie's financial interest in the project, the filming schedule should happen this year. He added that Reactor Motors is a high-budget film, but it is a film that won't break the studio's bank.

“It's great…it fits in the sweet spot between high-end indie and low-end studio,” Bundly said. “That makes it more attractive to the studios that are currently being overwhelmed by these $200 million behemoths.”

While Hollywood is good at blockbusters, Bundlie's main goal is to reinvent the NFT market and bring new intellectual properties to the screen.

“There is no reason why NFTs should only exist in the crypto world,” he said.

“According to them, NFTs are simply another form of art … as such, they should be IP themselves,” he continued. “There's no reason why a movie should only be drawn from a comic book or a novel.

Edited by Ryan Ozawa.