Focus Features and international gaming firm, Umi Games, announced today a new cross-platform video game inspired by the studio’s soon-to-be-released film The Bikeriders, a true insider’s account of a 1960s Midwestern biker club, directed by Jeff Nichols.
The team-up creates a movie-inspired gaming experience for the free-to-play, box fight, cross-platform game, Fortnite. With the film’s release on June 21, the game partnership promotes the rough and tumble ways of the film’s lead characters, played by Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy.
The box fight style game is a 2v2 brawler, where characters inspired by the film’s Vandals motorcycle club fight for supremacy on the streets of Chicago in the 1960s and 70s. With an in-world biker bar, as well as surrounding neighborhood, based on the film’s sets, the world of The Bikeriders accurately expands into the Fortnite universe. The battle royale is free for all users by clicking the magnifying glass at the top of the game. Afterwards, users should search the island code “3327-7711-0118” into Fortnite and click on the “The Bikeriders Box Fight” thumbnail that comes up.*
Los Angeles-based marketing agency, BOND, pitched Focus Features on creating the gaming experience and has been working with Umi Games to design and build “The Bikeriders Box Fight” for the past few weeks.
The Bikeriders will be in theaters exclusively starting on June 21. The film follows the rise and fall of a midwestern motorcycle club in the 1960’s and features a star studded cast including Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, and Norman Reedus. Get your tickets now: www.bikeridersmovie.com
*This is an independently created Fortnite Creative experience and is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by Epic Games, Inc.
