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Shadow of the Colossus To Become a Movie
Sockatume writes "SCE's critically acclaimed Shadow of the Colossus is set to become a feature film. The cult boss-rush game will be adapted by Justin Marks, who also wrote the recent Chun-Li movie. A friend of the writer reports that the studio hopes to turn it into an LotR-style fantasy blockbuster, expanding upon the side characters in the original game's minimalistic and solitary storyline. This won't be the game's first trip to Hollywood, however. 2007's Reign Over Me featured characters playing the game, at the suggestion of editor Jeremy Roush."
Great game, make a sequel not a movie.
From reading that the game would be a movie to reading who was writing it; that is the biggest smile to terror-frown conversion I've ever had. I think I pulled a muscle...
Demented But Determined.
It was a great game, but there wasn't much of a story. You were trying to save your girl, and to do so you were given the task to slay eight mighty beasts. I don't think there was another person in the whole game.
It had it's ending, which was good, but the game was basically about exploring the world to see how empty it was, then the sudden thrill of the fight with a beast.
It would be nearly unfilmable, without major changes (other characters, stuff in the middle, etc). I guess you could intersperse backstory (the love story part) during the "boring" sequences (searching for the monsters) as first person narration.
But that would change the character. It would no longer be one guy against nothing, realizing that he was killing these giant amazing creatures that usually meant no harm to him. You'd lose the "why am I continuing to do this, it's horrible" part.
Good luck, you're going to need it.
With any luck, this will be cancelled during production. If not, I fear another Mario Brothers movie, only less popular.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why would you turn this game into a movie? The chances of this being good are virtually zero. The game was a work of art, and screwing with it is a terrible idea.
Why do they keep making video game movies? Silent Hill has been the only one that was even half-way decent. Why hasn't the public learned to just stay away from these movies?
I'm a massive SotC fan (I've got a tattoo)
Oh, well, I didn't realize a little skin ink made you a "massive fan."
... which turned out to be a lot more expensive than I had initially thought (stupid PETA). I have the first sigil painted on the hood of my car which also turned out to be expensive when a policeman decided it was an oversized advertisement for a game and fined me for not having the vehicle commercially registered. My license plate reads WANDER. I have painted the shadows of the colossi on the sides of my house. On weekends when I'm not at work, I only communicate in the made up language from the game. Also I have a blow up doll of Mono that I make love to every night.
You want to know what a real fan does? I have a horse in my backyard named Agro
Ball's in your court, "fan."
The game is essentially about a boy and his horse, and the insurmountable challenges they face together. Think about that Viggo Mortensen film Hidalgo, but place it in a more lush, green world, and a whole lot less talking.
This really has me worried, I loved Shadow of the Colossus, the game was great because every boss was a whole level in itself. Whether you were climbing them or riding them or whatever, it was awesome. I don't know how a movie could capture this.
The game does not fit into the Lord of the Rings style blockbuster. It has just a few, quiet characters, a mysterious central castle, and lots of worlds to explore with just your horse. About the only thing that's similar is you could film SotC in New Zealand like LotR and there's bows and arrows.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
The cult boss-rush game will be adapted by Justin Marks, who also wrote the recent Chun-Li movie.
You mean the movie which has a metacritic score of 17% (tied for 89th on their bottom 100) and a rotten tomatoes score of 4%? The only way we'll ever see a proper screen adaptation of a video game is if we stop hiring talentless hacks to write the scripts.
I came here for a good argument
...than another game, precisely because there's no pre-existing story. There's nothing to ruin, nothing to get wrong, no part of my (recent) childhood to rape. They can only EXPAND the story, and there's really not a lot that they can get wrong.
On the other hand, take a game with an amazing, wonderfully thought-out story like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic or even the Half-Life series, and a movie would just _ruin_ it. You couldn't tell the same intricate stories in an hour and a half. You'd be stepping on the toes of the pre-existing canon. You'd end up with a story much worse, much sloppier, and more kiddie/general-audience than the one from the game.
The fact of the matter is that Games can be their own story-telling medium, and they have just as much 'artistic' validity as a book and just as much visual appeal as a movie.
If they're going to make a movie from a video game, let it be from one whose story they won't ruin.
I'm a massive SotC fan (I've got a tattoo)
You know, sometimes I can understand why all the "cool kids" want to beat the shit out of us dorks.
It's just the ongoing Jock vs Nerd war. A few jocks ruin math by learning Algebra, so we ruin tattoos by getting video game themed ones.
Did you think guys driving crazy ass Civics with giant wings and shit on them REALLY thought they were cool? It was just some nerds shitting on the cool kids' muscle cars.
We do it all the time. Beer bashes were countered with wine tasting parties. Our love of video games was countered with the Madden series.
Way to carry the war banner AC! The nerds salute you!
I traded all my mod points for these magic beans.
EXT DAY WANDER: ARGO! (repeat throughout movie) The End