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'Age Of Empires' Designer Sandy Petersen Blasts Modern Hollywood Directors For Believing They Can Make Adaptations "Better"

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John F. Trent
Nov 10, 2025
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Sandy Petersen, one of the designers for Age of Empires II as well as Halo Wars, Doom, and Quake blasted modern Hollywood directors and producers for believing they can make the story “better” when adapting projects to film or TV.

In a post to X, Petersen observed, “One of the great failures of modern cinema is that when they adapt or remake something, t…

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