Dungeon Siege Latest Game-To-Film Adaptation

Thanks to Ferrago for their story confirming a film version of popular PC RPG Dungeon Siege is in the works, from the same creators who gave us the 'horrific' House Of The Dead movie, in which Sega's ghoulish gun-game series was shifted to "an island off the coast of Florida, [where] a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college co-eds." The German producer and director of the forthcoming Dungeon Siege film, Uwe Boll, also currently working on the Alone In The Dark movie starring Christian Slater, breathlessly proclaimed: "Based on the success of House of the Dead, I believe Dungeon Siege contains major crossover potential because of its unique blend of action and fantasy, on the order of Lord of the Rings."

Comments

Hm.

[Anonymous Coward]

The house of the dead game was mediocre and the house of the dead movie was a Wyrm-tainted net drain of energy on the universe. "The House of the Dead" the movie had no positive side-effects in any way at all-- not for the producers, who failed to make money, nor for the actors and other artists involved, who now have a horrible stain of intense mediocrity on their record, nor for the audiences, none of whom enjoyed the movie.

However I'm almost curious about Alone in the Dark. I like Alone in the Dark and I like Christian Slater. Too bad that, most likely, when faced with a video game that contained actual effective atmosphere, elegant storytelling, and emotional relevancy, the movie producers will fail entirely to understand the game and merely give us a going-through-the-motions cardboard-cutout "hollywood movie" which connects with no one.

Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider 2, House of the Dead.. I tell you, the noble if horrible history of the Video Game Movie has dropped precipitously since the turning point marked by the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies. I wonder with some sadness if we will ever return to the level of gloriously barely-acceptable, deliciously anti-anti-camp that the genre held at its peak: Super Mario Brothers.

"TRUST THE FUNGUS!"

-- Super Ugly Ultraman

bad idea

[NSash]

It used to be that only good/popular games were made into movies... Sure, there was a buzz surrounding Dungeon Siege at launch-time, but everyone who bought it realized within a few days that it was completely shallow. Dungeon Siege was like a stone dropped into a lake. It caused a moderate splash, then it completely disappeared. If someone's making a movie based on this, it just shows that it's too easy to make movies.