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Coppola Slams Godfather Game
greysky writes "Gamespot cites an interview on AMC where Coppola reveals that he is upset with Paramount for making his Godfather movies into a video game. He's quoted as saying 'I knew nothing about it. They never asked me if I thought it was a good idea...I think it's a misuse of film'. The interview is set to air on AMC this Sunday."
If the movie studios piss off enough important people, maybe people will be less quick to sign over their rights and let them run the show.
Really the whole idea of a godfater game is kinda dumb. The best they will be able to do is just make a mafia game so they could just name it something else and avoide the whole "games based on movies suck" negitive image it will get right from the start. Even if this game turnes out super great and is the best game of the year they are still going to have that wall to get over. The movie basis is going to knock the score down no mater what. I'm sure the first thought that crossed everyones mind even fans of the movies was "not another movie converted to a game" :)
He adapted the story from a (admittedly inferior) novel by Mario Puzo.
Anyway, if he denounces the project it probably means it's going to be a great game. Based on the last six or eight films he's made, his artistic judgement has gone into the toilet.
In the early 90s, The Godfather was released for Amiga, Atari and DOS. Check em out at Moby games and the Amiga version specifically at Hall of Light
The original story that I submitted was from FoxNews.com, but whoever approved the story (Zonk) modified the link to point to gamespot or whatever. Blame the editor. Here's the link to the story that I submitted: Foxnews.com