As part of the publisher’s planned ‘transmedia’ approach to the releases of its future blockbuster videogames, THQ (in collaboration with SyFy) has announced that a two-hour live-action movie pilot set in the Red Faction universe is scheduled to air in March 2011.

Entitled ‘Red Faction: Origins’ (working title), the movie is set between the events of the previously released Red Faction: Guerrilla, and next year’s Red Faction: Armageddon, which is also set for release in March next year.

The screenplay for Red Faction: Origins was written by writer and producer Andrew Kreisberg (Warehouse 13, Fringe, Vampire Diaries and Boston Legal), and was based on a story developed by THQ’s director of fiction development, Paul DeMeo (The Rocketeer, Flash, Viper, The Sentinel).

Here’s the story setup for Red Faction: Origins:

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