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Assorted Video Game Movies in Development
Obiwan Kenobi writes "Filmforce has a solid round-up of video game movies currently in development. From Alone In The Dark to Doom to Dead or Alive (yes, it includes an Extreme Beach Volleyball scene), some interesting reading on the current progress, or lack thereof, of current video game flicks."
Spy-Hunter
Status: In Development
Cast: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Director: None
Writer: None
Sweet! The Rock! He's good in anything!!!
Hopefully this will be a bit more entertaining involving than the NES game... although I still hate those fat blue cars... knock me the road will you?
...Lopez and Affleck to remake "Mortal Kombat".
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Let's see...
Final Fantasy
Mortal Kombat
Resident Evil
Final Fantasy...
nope, can remember a single video game based movie that turned out ok, tho I'm sure there must be one somewhere.
What? No Interstate '76 movie??? And come on! Pac-Mac? Will they bring back the "Magic Pill Trees"
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The plot totally sucked, but Angelina Jolie sure was hot.
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Duke Nukem Forever: The Movie (Due out before the game. Besides, infinity plus infinity is still infinity, right?)
I, for one, would like to see that great arcade classic made into a movie. Starring Vin Diesel as the little ball, although he'd probably kill that role too.
Duke Nukem: The Movie
Status: Missing-In-Action
Cast: None
Director: None
Writer: None
The Scoop: This long-rumored project is well past its prime.
I heard that Gladiator was based on Pac-Man.
Hmm ... and on the other hand, I bet the movie will just suck all on its own, so your points would be rendered moot. :)
Yeah, and Ms Pac-Man was made into a porno. After all, she does go around gobbling up loads of balls.
The Tim Schaeffer LucasArts games could be made into very interesting movies. Day Of The Tentacle, ...
Doesn't Japan already have a shitload of those tentacle movies? Don't tell me you want a live-action version too?
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"LOL fkcu U awp fag"
or
"OMFG camping fag!"
"ff on?"
and the line that I heard during a session of UT2003 just last night:
"j00 fucking wALL hakc lamer!"
The "Unreal Experience" immerses you in an amazing epoch of stunning dialect and culture that any movie rendition has to stay loyal to if it wishes to be successful.
But put that idea to rest and just make a movie straight from Max Payne. That storyline was just incredible.
...
:P
I especially enjoyed the excellent writing!
"Punchinello wanted Payne.
He'd see the pain."
"Sooner or later it was going to catch up with you.
You'd find that Lady Luck was really a hooker, and you were fresh out of cash."
"Outside, the mercury was falling fast. It was colder than the devil's heart, raining ice pitchforks as if the heavens were ready to fall."
"In the belly of the plant, molten metal boiled and bubbled like a witch's brew."
This next one is especially 'great' in context of the game:
"There are only personal apocalypses. Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you."
Gamespy's review quip is a pretty good indicator:
"A great down and dirty shooter that's horribly written and incredibly short."
Seriously, I agree some of the dialogue was a little funny, but the game's story was horrendous. Just cliché after cliché, and just because the game knew it didn't make sitting through them any more bearable. I think it was reaching for some of the ridiculous operatic heights John Woo films reach sometimes, but it just really failed at that and sounded stupid and predictable instead.
All IMHO, of course.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -- Francis Bacon
Starring John Cusack as budding pirate Guybrush Threepwood,
With Cameron Diaz as Elaine,
Jack Nicholson as Le Chuck The Evil Pirate,
Chevy Chase as Stan,
Vincent Gallo as Herman Toothroot,
and Leonardo DiCaprio as the monkey.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Dirty Dance Dance Revolution
A rich girl on vacation with her family finds herself in an arcade subjected to a new form of "dancing" that regular people don't understand. She falls in love with a guy that got good by playing the game on pads in his parents basement. She gets in a big fight with her family when they realize she is a geek.
"4 stars." - Kenton Times
"A coming of age film that is fun for the whole family" - Findlay Courier
"This is the best movie based on the video game Dance Dance Revolution we have seen this year" - Columbus Dispatch
One game no director could screw up is Halo...O how sweet a halo movie would be.
Also a metriod movie is in the works...here
A screenwriting team has been hired and Milla Jovovich has been talking herself up for the lead.
Milla Jovovich as a hot Alice? In the stockings and the little black shoes? Maybe a tight little Bettie Page haircut?
I pretty much see that as being as the best f'n idea I have heard all year. Whoever is behind that idea deserves an Oscar almost as much as the guy that was responsible for putting the pool scene in Wild Things.
...starring Ben Affleck as that long thin piece that never shows up when you need it! Studio insiders report that this is a particularly challenging role for Affleck and he is preparing by taking falling and rotating lessons.
I heard Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks are working on a version of MineSweeper. Although they're having trouble signing Drew Barrymore. She thinks the mines are too violent and refuses to be part of the project unless Spielberg replaces them with Walkie-Talkies.
Coming soon... John Travolta in Space Invaders! Pixar is using a rendering farm to realistically display the motions of each of the sixty alien ships as they approach the Earth and ravage its barricades with a murderous barrage of short vertical lines.
Hm, maybe the problem is that Square thought it was Sci-Fi, too.
-R
They should make a movie out of all those Star Wars games I keep seeing. It seems like a strong franchise; there must be something to it.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
I enjoyed Mortal Kombat but that may have been partially due to a "contact high" of enthusiasm from the 13yr. old boys sitting two rows in front of me.
Leisure Suit Larry anyone?
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