Game to Movie adaptations

[patriot_41]

I'm waiting for the Neverhood movie. It will not fail.

Why not?

It's written and directed by Doug TenNapel. Or was supposed to be, IMDB keeps quiet. Anyway, up until now, Doug hasn't failed me.

 

[Public]

Well, judging from the tripe that has been movies lately, I guess a lot.

A lot?
Like maybe Painkiller, Quake (actually it'd be cool to see Stroggs in the live action movie), GTA, Oblivion ? Maybe Planescape:torment by Kevin Smith with the dialogue all the way?
Which games do you think they should consider?

I actually liked Resident Evil the movie.

Yeah, I liked the first one too. But the next two went into straight action, rather than trying to make it more like a horror flick.

Its kinda interesting that things around Boll have beomce pretty quiet lately since the gouvernement stoped any kind of money support to such projects.

On IMDB it shows he's working on some sequals: Bloodrayne 3 I think, Alone in the Dark 2 maybe, and something else...

Would have loved to see a Cyberdeamon from hell! Or even a short trips by the marines in to hell! Not this garbage they came up with. I dont know. I guess the director wanted somewhat his "own" flavour in the movie

It might have been a nice horror flick. People getting ripped apart and stuff.

Rob Zombie could direct it

...same with "books".

But consider that there are many great movies based on books.

The first live action one. Is the CGI one any good? First time I hear of it.

The CGI one was called "Resident Evil: Degeneration". It's actually pretty cool, but animation sucks (I mean, it looks nice, but characters act very stiff and generic).
I think the story goes after the events in Resident Evil 2...or 3, not sure (I haven't played any RE games). There are some characters from the games too.

Super Mario Bros? I loved that movie when I was really little.

Me too.
I watched it a while ago, and I still think it's a nice movie though.

District 9 was supposed to be a Halo movie.

That's great! Now we'll get much better sci-fi flick without Halo on it.

It's written and directed by Doug TenNapel. Or was supposed to be, IMDB keeps quiet. Anyway, up until now, Doug hasn't failed me.

IMDB says he's gonna direct the Earthworm Jim movie



There's also Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean series), who's signed for Bioshock movie...

 

[Sander]

But consider that there are many great movies based on books.

There are also a ton of shitty movies based on books. And books that are substantial to base films on have been around for a lot longer than games that are substantial enough for that.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with basing a movie off of a videogame. It just means that they need to alter source material meant for an interactive medium to a non-interactive medium.

 

[Verevoof]

Which games do you think they should consider?

Hmm... Fallout? Metal Gear Solid series (the games already pretty much plays like a film, I could see it happen)? Freakin' Minesweeper !

Sure, many games could be done, but its not like I want to see it happen. Most video game films fail. And if it's a great game, the movie has an extremely slim chance of living up to that game.

I don't know, can't really think of any right now, but I don't really play many games or see many movies. I don't really see the point of making games into movies. I mean, video games are just a different kind of medium to tell a story, just like film, books, and spoken word are all mediums to tell a story. Sure, video games aren't as accessible to many people as say books or films are, but they all basically accomplish the same goal in the end. Of course, there are good games and bad, good movies and bad, good books and bad... ah, you know what I'm sayings here.

Oblivion?

Fer sure!

 

[rcorporon]

I liked Final Fantasy: Spirits Within, and the first Resident Evil movie.

Bioshock could make a good movie, I think.

 

[[PCE]el_Prez]

I liked Final Fantasy: Spirits Within

That was a pretty cool movie. The whole 'gia' thing was a little hippy-ish but overall I really liked it.

 

[UniversalWolf]

There's nothing that says a movie based on a game can't be good. The odds are against it though, because when a studio makes a movie based on a game, they're doing it to profit off the popularity of the game's name, which is, if not a known quantity, at least a quantity possible to estimate. In the business world there's no difference between a movie of this kind and, say, an action figure. It's the same appraoch Bethesda used with Fallout.

The first thing I'd look for is a serious director. If you get a David Fincher or a Ridley Scott on board, I'd keep an open mind. I guess Sam Raimi could be okay for the Warcraft movie, and I could see Blizzard not wanting to do just another lousy game movie, but I'm not holding my breath. It's just as likely they offered him a giant wad of cash to do it.

I'd rather have bad game movies than bad remakes of good movies.