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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?
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
Yeah, and Ms Pac-Man was made into a porno. After all, she does go around gobbling up loads of balls.
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
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