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Upcoming Game Movies And Their Likelihood to Suck
Via Kotaku, a story on the Destructoid site about upcoming game movies and their likelihood to suck. Mr. McVengeance runs down the upcoming pixels-to-big-screen adaptations, and amazingly it appears the situation isn't completely hopeless. Just mostly. From the article: "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Probability of Suck: Moderately Low. This gives me mixed feelings on the fact that there are two writers. First is the guy who actually wrote the script for the game, which is a good thing. Second, we have the writer for 'The Day After Tomorrow'. Then, we have Jerry Bruckheimer working as Executive Producer. Y'know, the guy who's name is attached to Pirates of the Carribean and a whole host of other films? I think this film will end up doing OK. I'll be interested in seeing who gets the job as director."
You know that gamer's expectations are high when the metric is "probability of suck."
This guy's the limit!
Come on, why hasn't someone made Duke Nukem Forever into a movie?
Could that ever suck?!
I dont think so.
Far Cry
Probability of Suck: Bet on It
Directed by Uwe Boll. Next.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
"My wife and I both enjoy Coyote Ugly...It's also genuinely funny."
Please don't have children.
Game: Player 'Donald J Trump' now has AI skill level 'experimental'.
Seriously:
Bungie - check.
Great backstory - check.
Peter Jackson - check.
WETA - check.
Promising director - check.
Good scriptwriter - check.
Infinite budget - check.
Too good to be true - check.
How could anything this promising NOT end up the biggest anticlimax of all time?
Frog blast the vent core.