nicked on 25/11/2009 at 13:50
In theory, I'd have thought the best games to turn into films would be RPGs, because there's generally a world that's been thought out in some depth, meaning that you can expand upon, or deviate from, the game's plot while still staying in the familiar game world.
That's why I think the best hope for a videogame movie currently in production is probably Warcraft - there's enough backstory and world development that an original story can be told in a traditional film style.
addink on 25/11/2009 at 17:52
Wouldn't most games be best converted to TV series? (if at all)
It leaves a lot of room to add to the story and its characters, instead of cutting stuff and/or cramming it into too few scenes.
The full story would be easier to follow for newcomers to the IP, and the expanded story would be more interesting for those who already know the IP.
Ulukai on 25/11/2009 at 18:14
Tomb Raider: The Curse of the Black Panther
* Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft only not shit.
* Lara should have an fiercely loyal black panther as a pet, just because she can
* She should put some weight on though because at the moment she looks like a frigging skeleton.
* Michael Caine can feature as Bruce Wayne's Moonlighting Butler
* And it should be more like Indiana Jones and less like The Mummy Returns
* Aliens, Landrover Freelanders and Ricky Gervais should not be featuring in it fucking anywhere
* Bridget Moynahan features as the bad 'guy', but falls for Lara and they get it on, this should be a critical plot device somehow otherwise people will complain about a gratuitous display of boob quartet and Guardian journalists will have a coronary
* Not produced or directed by Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer or any other vacuous turdburglars
* Monkeys and explosions must be in it somewhere, apart from the sex scenes, where they should be at the very least out of shot
That's the only criteria, just needs a plot and we have a winner
Kuuso on 25/11/2009 at 19:36
The Longest Journey pretty much is a movie. So eh, a proper game movie needs a good story...
Psychonauts would need Tim Burton.
Sulphur on 25/11/2009 at 22:14
The problem with Hollywood is it usually chooses games with non-existent/utterly shit stories to turn into movies. Super Mario Bros? Doom? Tomb Raider? STREET FIGHTER/MORTAL KOMBAT???
And when it does choose something with potential, the soul of the game is usually lost in translation due to writers that aren't sympathetic to the material or lobotomise/aggressively adapt and chop it down to its basic theme/concept so the teeming masses can be spoon-fed the plot. Witness: Silent Hill, Hitman, Max Payne.
Silent Hill would've been a pretty nice movie if it didn't treat its viewers like retards in its final third and pretty much spoon-fed its viewers everything with a flashback of 'HAI THIS IS WHUT HAPPUNED BEFOAR HOAP U UNDERSTAND NOW U DUMB FUCKS' proportions, and then plugged in an ill-advised Revenge of the Tormented Demon Child scene for good measure.
I'm not even going to talk about Uwe Boll.
Movies of games would work if the writers played the games and, in the process of adapting them, trusted their audience to fill in the gaps and actually make the script smart and interesting instead of rote and by-the-numbers.
Half Life, for instance, would make for a brilliant sci-fantasy movie if it had enough creative investment and some amount of taste and intelligence in choosing which bits to adapt (I wouldn't want to include the bit where you have to zap the gigantic blue monster with a satellite beam, for instance).
henke on 26/11/2009 at 06:30
Quote Posted by Wormrat
no one's been able to do John Woo like John Woo. Bring back the slow motion and style, please. It's not that hard.
Yeah it is. Not even John Woo can do it like John Woo anymore. That stuff from the 80s is not just slow-mo and style. It's also very much stuntmen/Chow Yun-Fat being absolutely crazy and ready to put their life on the line for a good shot. I don't think we'll see actionscenes like those in John Woo/Jackie Chan films from the 80s/early 90s anymore. Certainly not from Hollywood. Their stuntmen are too concerned with not dying.
Fafhrd on 26/11/2009 at 07:05
Quote Posted by Kuuso
Psychonauts would need
Tim Burton Henry Selick.
Fixed.
My crazy idea for a Thief movie would be to stick basically with the story, and shoot it fairly straightforward. But the sound field is entirely in the first person from Garrett's perspective. Let audiences try to wrap their heads around that.
Jason Moyer on 26/11/2009 at 07:14
If I were to executive produce a Thief movie, I'd get the original writers, Eric/Terry Brosius, and Terry Gilliam together and wait for them to go 5 years and millions of dollars over budget before putting together a steampunk masterpiece.
Thirith on 26/11/2009 at 07:56
Why Terry Gilliam? I like his movies, but while he's great at creating worlds, I think he's not all that great at creating believable, realistic(ish) characters - even the characters I like (e.g. Sam Lowry, John Cole) are pretty stylised and cartoony in some ways.
gunsmoke on 26/11/2009 at 12:09
Doesn't he have one-foot-in-the-grave anyway? Better hurry...
