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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...
Cloud City Digital: DVD Production at its cheapest/finest
The plot totally sucked, but Angelina Jolie sure was hot.
Security is inversely proportional to the commitment of one desiring to circumvent it.
Duke Nukem Forever: The Movie (Due out before the game. Besides, infinity plus infinity is still infinity, right?)
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
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?
Yeah, and Ms Pac-Man was made into a porno. After all, she does go around gobbling up loads of balls.
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
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.
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.