John Rhys-Davies Notes The Pitfalls of Game Movies

Veteran actor John Rhys-Davies sat down with GameDaily Biz to talk about his role in Uwe Boll's latest failure of a movie, 'Dungeon Siege: In the Name of the King'. Davies is surprisingly candid about his interest in the role, and pretty much nails the numerous problems of making film adaptations of games. "One or two may succeed, and I hope this is one of them, but the structure of a game is completely unlike the structure of a film. And it shows the despair of the studios and producers that these movies even get a look at. If we had good writing, it would not happen. I think that right at the moment, the film industry in Hollywood is in a crisis because we have successfully excluded young and able talent for so long that now there is nothing left."

Comments

Boll + Critics

[Nivlheim]

Watch it John! He'll challenge you to a boxing match!

A note to John

[Jesterboy]

Dear John,
    Your talent dwarfs your competition. You were the bomb in "Sliders", so I'll kindly look the other way whilst you make some bankage.

    Keep on truckin'!

Sincerely,
Jesterboy

Re:A note to John

[Zarhan]

Dear John,
        Your talent dwarfs your competition.

Not if he's playing Gimli, really.

Re:Wrong Games

[Drooling Iguana]

Didn't they already make a series of Monkey Island games with Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightly?