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FF7 Advent Children Movie Trailers, Rumors
Wingchild writes "I noticed that the trailers for the new Final Fantasy 7 movie are online at Square-Enix (Squeenix?)'s website, an event as yet unmentioned on Slashdot. Available elsewhere are trailer screenshots and plotline theory. The release will be straight to DVD (Square might still be smarting after the unspectacular performance of The Spirits Within), but it'll still be neat to see what Squeenix is capable of on the ever-moving CG front." S!: The AdventChildren.net fansite also has details of an interview with Tetsuya Nomura, pointing out "the movie [or a new trailer] will be shown in some form at this year's E3", and noting that the past rumor that "the movie will be playable on the PS2 only" has not yet been quashed, although it hasn't been confirmed either.
Do you hear that? Its the sound of Squaresoft cashing in on one of their most profitable games ever.
Not that I don't blame them. I'm titilated at the prospect of entirely new content for that particular game's story, I wish instead that they'd gone ahead with the rumored PS2 remakes that where cancelled. At least I wish that had remade 7. With a better story.
Or something.
X
I see this as an apology for "The Spirits Within." This is pretty much what everyone wanted when they first heard Square was making a feature movie. Instead, we got this weird sci-fi trip that only relates to Final Fantasy if you look at the philosophical roots.
So, finally they are making the 'REAL' final fantasy movie. Fancy swordfights, magic, etc.
I've watched one trailer so far, and it's really dark, and pretty much 'black and white.' I hope that's not what the movie ends up as.
They need to run the whole gamut. Bright colors, happiness, flying machines, forests, chocobos, maybe even a small section with that crazy gambling joint. They need to have a bunch of the characters from the game, (although hopefully only a came from that cat riding the pink marshmallow thing.)
Don't be afraid to make a movie out of the game...(instead of just a movie with the same name as the game.)
I'm definitely not a FF7 fanboy, but at least basing a film on the most popular FF episode makes *sense*, compared to wasting the brand name on a truly horrid piece of sci-fi drek that made Space Mutiny look like Star Wars.
Of course, pointing a camcorder at a pc playing Duke Nukem 3D would have made a better movie than FF: The Spirits Within...
Best Final Fantasy game, meet proper 3d rendered graphics. I'll take eight! I hope they don't decide to do something stupid, like drop a character (Cid and Nanaki/Red XIII come to mind), and/or some major chunk of the plot. I see that Vincent is included, which is cool. I guess that all I can do is wait and see what it's like when it's released...
Every cloud has a silver lining (except for the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of Iridium & Strontium 90)
any of the comic book themed movies portrayed the stories about as well as arnold speaks english.
One word: Spiderman.
Rob (Only major difference was MJ standing in for Gwen Stacy)
That was very different, in my opinion. That was a point at which the undisputably best game company around released a completely ground-breaking game on THE next-generation system and simultaneously announced that they would no longer be deving for nintendo. This? Sure, they've got an installed base of 40 million households in the US alone, but that doesn't mean everyone only wants to watch the dvd on those systems (which everyone who owns one knows have shitty quality!).
I'm not saying it's impossible -- square has made some pretty dumb moves in the past. Only that this is not a market-moving release, and that consumers would hate it, not move with it.
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