I had heard rumours that a BioShock movie was in the works, but I'm not sure what happened to it. But to be honest I can't think of any video game to movie adaptation that would work well.
Game most deserving of movie
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Resident Evil, if done right...or has it already struck out thanks to Mr Anderson?
...Freedom Fighters would kick ass as a movie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Fighters_(video_game)
...Freedom Fighters would kick ass as a movie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Fighters_(video_game)
Well, if a movie based on Half-Life ever emerge, I want it to be like this. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UPMEmCqZo]
The only way Bioshock would make a great movie is if the director were either Stanley Kubrick (He's dead so I don't think he'd do it) or Terry Gilliam, both terrific directors with a sense for weirdness. I'd love to see Sander Cohen a la Terry Gilliam.
The inherent problem in bridging the gap between movies and games is that as Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw put it:
"If something worked as a movie then that qualifies it to work as a sequence of amusing lights and sounds that holds the average scumbags jaws slack for 2 hours WHEREAS a video game has to stand up to ten hours of unpleasable nerds like me turning over every rock looking for stuff to complain about."
That said your either trying to get ten hours out of what is initially only 2 hours of entertainment when going from movies to games. Or your trying to shove 10-100 hours of entertainment into a measely 2 hours and with even less mediums to tell your story, when going from games to movies.
In order for this to work the game in question would need to be something that enough people can relate to so that you dont have to spend so much time explaining it to them. It would also need a skilled director who knows his way around complicated story's and symbolic filming techniques. That and a big budget because if your going to go threw with this you may as well go big.
My nominated game for such a venture would be:
World of Warcraft
With its foothold in popular culture World of Warcraft has a far larger chance of jumping the gaping chasm between movies and games and would have enough funding from Blizzard to make a masterpiece. And I had heard that a World of Warcraft movie was in the works, so lets hope they dont completely screw it up.
"If something worked as a movie then that qualifies it to work as a sequence of amusing lights and sounds that holds the average scumbags jaws slack for 2 hours WHEREAS a video game has to stand up to ten hours of unpleasable nerds like me turning over every rock looking for stuff to complain about."
That said your either trying to get ten hours out of what is initially only 2 hours of entertainment when going from movies to games. Or your trying to shove 10-100 hours of entertainment into a measely 2 hours and with even less mediums to tell your story, when going from games to movies.
In order for this to work the game in question would need to be something that enough people can relate to so that you dont have to spend so much time explaining it to them. It would also need a skilled director who knows his way around complicated story's and symbolic filming techniques. That and a big budget because if your going to go threw with this you may as well go big.
My nominated game for such a venture would be:
World of Warcraft
With its foothold in popular culture World of Warcraft has a far larger chance of jumping the gaping chasm between movies and games and would have enough funding from Blizzard to make a masterpiece. And I had heard that a World of Warcraft movie was in the works, so lets hope they dont completely screw it up.
There are plenty of games that would make good movies out their. Halo and HL for example (even though I think Halo started to suck after the first one). But there is a W I D E line between a good gaming movie and a horrifyingly awful gaming movie. Personaly, I'd prefer to have my fave games stay as games rather than torn a new one and left bleeding by the side of the road by some movie company, especially in the current state of the film industry...right, rant over, I vote for Half Life 2 Movie with R. Downey Junior as Gordon