While the SyFy channel is known for their 'Ambigous' original movies, this could be entertaining. The movie is planned to be aired around the same date as the new Red Faction game will be released, March 2011.

However, for those of you excited for next year's RF outing, you may be interested to know that the SyFy movie, entitled Red Faction: Origins will be an important link in the game's storyline, which began in last year's Red Faction: Guerrilla. The movie will focus on Jake Mason, son of Guerrilla's protagonist Alec Mason, who carries on the good fight in the pseudo-Marxist space epic. This will be an important context-setting link to gamers with plans to jump right into Armageddon, since your protagonist in that game, will be Darius Mason, son of TV hero Jake and grandson of Alec. That's right folks, blowing s**t up and sticking it to the man has quickly become the Mason family business.


The TV movie is actually a backdoor pilot, meaning if things work out, it could be picked-up as a regular series. Therefore, I am not going to take the knee-jerk reaction of classifying this as something on the level of other SyFy modern schlock masterpieces like Boa vs. Python or S.S. Doomtrooper. There is a respectable lineup of shows that, besides the Battlestar Galactica and Stargate franchises, reflect a reasonable expectation of the show being a worthy supplement to the storyline established in the Red Faction video games.

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