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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?
But put that idea to rest and just make a movie straight from Max Payne. That storyline was just incredible. Sure it would make the movie about 4 hours long, but man would it be great the first time you watched it.
...Lopez and Affleck to remake "Mortal Kombat".
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Mario Bros. - The Movie- Sucked
Street Fighter The Movie - Sucked
Pokemon Movies- Mostly suck, but one of the movies is a Monoke rip-off, which makes it cool...
I will say that The Wizard was cool, but it was not so much a movie based on a video game as it was a movie about kids growing up in an age when video games were starting to be taken seriosly as an entertainment medium. I'd like to see more movies about gamer culture and less bad Van Dam as Guile pieces of crap...
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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?)
It's already out already out and it's free.
:-)
Okay there's no Angelina Jolie and I have no idea if the plot is good, but at least it is faithful to the original game.
The ENIAC Demo Competition
Simply because the Tomb Raider franchise was so successful in theatres doesn't mean that the film and game industries should start making babies.
There are many, many things specific to Tomb Raider that helped build its success as a movie. Primarily, there is a popular need for additional female-driven action movies.
Jinx, played by Halle Berry, from the James Bond series is a good example of things to come. She's also looking at Catwoman. Ashley Judd in upcoming The Blackout Murders and, of course, there's always Charlie's Angels.
Anyway, it isn't affirmative action for the sake of affirmative action... It's a need...
Good luck to these movies, though.
justen
I knew my list of video games movies (live action, no animation) would be useful one day.
:-)
If you see anything missing please reply so I can add it
"DIRECT CONVERSIONS":
Super Mario Bros.
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Dungeons & Dragons (ok, it's a table RPG, but still...)
Wing Commander
Resident Evil
Tomb Raider
Final Fantasy
Double Dragon
Clue (table game, see D&D)
Last Bronx
(MISTAKENLY THOUGHT AS CONVERSIONS)
Parasite Eve (not really, book and movie released first)
"INSPIRED FROM VIDEOGAMES":
The 13th Floor
Avalon
Cloak and Dagger
eXistenZ
Joysticks
The Last Starfighter
Matrix
Mazes and Monsters
Nightmares - Bishop of Battle sequence
Strange Days
Tron
War Games
The Wizard
(Code Hunter?)
The ENIAC Demo Competition
This is Disney's second crack at adapting Lewis Carroll's Alice books to the big screen. The film adaptation of American McGee's Alice (in turn a video game adaption of Carroll's books) will be produced by Dimension Films, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
If you're boycotting Disney, such as if you're a Southern Baptist or you just disapprove of Disney-sponsored copyright legislation, don't see Alice.
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I see no difference between these games and gangster movies since the silend black-and-white movie. Hell, I could name movies with Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris or Clint Eastwood that would fit any of these games. All the producers have to do is to re-release these old movies, slap a new name on them and they are done.
Did anybody consider that games are influenced by movies, and thus making a movie based on a game that was inspired by a movie is a little redundant?
last not crummy video game movie... not exactly based ON a video game, but around it.
... maybe not so good... but look what they had to compete with D.A.R.Y.L.
ok
After I posted the parent comment, I discovered two more games to which Disney owns the film rights: Alone in the Dark (Dimension) and Backwater (Dimension).
And is this a coincidence or not? "A screenwriting team has been hired and Milla Jovovich has been talking herself up for the lead [in Alice]." ... "Whether you loved or hated the first one, a Resident Evil sequel is on the way. Milla Jovovich will be reprising her role as Alice." Are there other screen actors or actresses who have portrayed several different characters with the same given name?
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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.
would make an excellent film. Anyone concur?
Funny, yet utterly retarded.
Yeah, and Ms Pac-Man was made into a porno. After all, she does go around gobbling up loads of balls.
That game had an excellent plot, and would make a great movie IMO. It could star Claire Danes or Anna Paquin.
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The Tim Schaeffer LucasArts games could be made into very interesting movies. Day Of The Tentacle, Monkey Island, and a few others might be way too oddball for mass appeal, but Full Throttle and Grim Fandango might not be.
What they have going for them is that the game worlds are superbly realized and the adventure game form is cinematic. There are RTS and turn-based strategy games with superbly realized game worlds, but the art form isn't as amenable to cinema.
Can somebody make Grim Fandango into a movie? Can they use the Pixar CG team?
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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.
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
Almost as much as that article did. Wow, someone took like 10 minutes to compile stuff from Coming Attractions or Imdb. Yay Journalism!
As far as the Tekken movie goes, they already made it...only, much like Soul Calibur, Sammo's never going to get the rights, make the movie anyway, and just rename it to something else...because in Hong Kong, "kinda legal" doesn't mean that you definitely get sued, unlike the fabulous US of A.
(For the record, the Tekken movie was extremely bad. The only characters in it are Jack, Kazuya, Jun, Lei, and some other people that don't make sense. And the plot's totally different.)
Half the stuff in that article is like, "Oh, someone said this would be a good game to make a movie about."
Must be a slow week for IGN. Grasping at straws to have something to justify their jobs in the deathly silence that leads up to E3.
Netjak.com independent reviews of domestic & import video ga
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.
Haven't you ever seen Robot Jox. Yeah, yeah, it's not the Mech Warrior universe, but it's a bunch of big robots fighting each other. It also has my vote for one of the worst movies ever made. When I thought about it, I started laughing to myself imagining my brother constantly repeating one of the worst delivered lines of all time:
Please, see this movie if you haven't already. It's so bad, it's fun.
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...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.
Have you seen Gollum lately?
I am a CG modeler. It's unbelievably simple to convince people that they're watching a human if they don't see the face. Our brains have portions dedicated to identifying faces. We can recognize that something is wrong with one in a split-second.
Gollum was the single best CG character that I have ever seen. They did motion capture for his face, so even it moved correctly. The oly real problem that I saw was during one scene, the cloth he was grabbing didn't behave correctly. That's probably because Andy Serkis' fingers aren't as long as Gollum's.
Stills from Final Fantasy were very good, but the video was less than perfect. Gollum's motion was wonderfuly fluid. He moved like a real creature instead of as some construct. I was mostly amazed by how good his facial expressions were. Those are very hard to do manually.
Hm, maybe the problem is that Square thought it was Sci-Fi, too.
-R
What, did Hollywood run out of books to rape? You would think they would have learned from spiraling fireballs like Super Mario Brothers, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Wing Commander, Resident Evil, etc.
Now I see DOA the movie (I don't know about you guys, but if I want a movie full of hot chicks with no plot, well, that's what porn is for) and, god forbid, Pac Man. Jesus, even at the pinnacle of Pac Man fever they weren't insane enough to make a movie out of it. That whole list sends chills down my spine. I don't know whether to gape in horror or fall off my chair laughing.
-R
Genetic experiments are not necessarily DNA-based. Even though we didn't understand DNA until much later than 1953 (heck, probably don't understand it today) - genetic experiments can include simple breeding, like Mendel's work. (Even if Mendel's work was faked, as it seems to have been...)
Besides, if you're going to complain about this, the obvious answer: they used their occult experiments to improve their genetic experiments!
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
Critique of certain things:
:), Serious Sam couldn't hurt either, but I agree that the Los Angeles Pig Department must have its 15 minutes of fame :)
Oh man I grew UP with Metroid 1... they better NOT fuck this up. Same goes for doom. I am tired of horror flicks. And DIABLO?! If they DO make a movie, Condor/Blizzard North had best go back to diablo 1... Diablo II lacked soul. It felt empty, except perhaps in Kurast. It just felt weak compared to its older sibling Diablo. The boss was good but moviewise, Tristram may be better... unless of course they make the demons convincing out in the deserts and the jungle... Hell could use some Diablo 1 help since it just "felt" more sinister.
Just some ideas, but my pleas go out as follows:
-Diablo- PLEASE get the atmosphere right...
-DiabloII- PLEASE get the demons big bad and scary.
-Doom- scrap PG13, this is an R rated flick. Everyone who EVER played doom is over 17 now and can watch R rated stuff.
-Duke3d- PLEASE scrap this and make Shadow Warrior instead
-Metroid- well... just please don't cast some dumb blonde for Samus... I dunno about everyone else, but she was a badass not someone's love interest... Also if the motherbrain or the space pirates are human actors, then all is lost. Period.
Those are just my opinions but if we get jiggly plastic make up on cheesy looking masks and we call those people "space pirates" (ala the bad guys in Neverending story)... then half our fave games will look lower tech on the big screen than they did on our 12 inch viewable PS/2 monitors. (Those who played Doom in the old days should be familiar with that breed of hardware, Packard Bell used to attach them to their 386's).
And we all know just how bleeding edge doom actually was... god only knows, high speed SVGA graphics weren't something you could do anyday of the week (duke3d, shadow warrior) and before that, doom was as on the edge of tech as can be had, elevators, stairs, huge levels (huge not like the ones in some of today's games)... if the movies aren't at least as amazing as playing Hexen for the first time... then perhaps they need to hold onto the ideas for a few more years... or millenia.
-DaedalusHKX
PS - I dunno about you, but would anyone think that perhaps Cybermage, Hexen, Heretic and Hexen II/Heretic II would make damn awesome games to convert to movies? Lets hear something from Raven, since those games were far deeper than a simple blast fest. (Plus, the characters could provide a bit of further depth to it, much like those of Diablo could if the movie folks translate them into personallities onscreen... of course they could just turn it into an excuse to put lots of sex and tons more blood and pixelized guts on the screen and we can call it a day with each movie, knowing that they will sell... as all excessive violence always does, and if not he sex will save it, since content rarely works these days.)
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
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.