How do you make a game out of a knight mounted on a flying ostrich defeating similarly equipped foes? Well, you gotta ask CP Productions then. The studio plans on making a film adaptation of classic arcade title Joust. Set to be completed by next June, the film is being billed as “Gladiator meets Mad Max.”

The script has been penned by Marc Gottlieb and is set 25 years on in the floating city of Las Vegas. It is unclear as to how it will relate to the game itself and how many major characters will appear. According to GameDaily BIZ, the studio plans on maintaining the integrity of its films, which it plans to independently finance. “We won’t have eight writers and six executives trying to put their thumbprint on the film… the vision of the filmmakers will be kept pure,” said studio founder Michael Cerenzie.

It is yet unclear if the game’s author John Newcomer is involved.