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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."