Games that would make fantastic movies.
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As a strict adaption of a game? None. Mainly due to the fact that story telling in games and movies are structured differently and make it more difficult to translate the game to a movie. However as an add-on or back story of a game. Like a Half Life movie that bridges the events between HL1 and HL2 would be a good movie. We have an established setting and a few established characters already. Telling the tale of the takeover or the aftermath of the takeover could make for a good movie. Or an Elder Scroll movie detailing the events of some important war in the TES lore.
I third that. Though it would either be a damned long film or a rather condensed version. Despite that, I could see a very good film coming out of Metro - see the live action trailer for Metro Last Light they did.Total LOLige said:
I think it's more likely to be based on a hybrid - the game has more action, and the book itself is more detailed.
I think the most successful video game movies would have to be ones that build on the premise of a game rather than the existing plot. Personally, I would find a movie simply recounting a plot that I already knew boring at best. Books hold a lot of potential for movies because audios and visuals can bring something very new to a story, but most video games these days already have incredible visual components and amazing voice actors. Live-action would seem to add little to what's already there, and I think most audience members would just get caught up in all the details that the movie didn't get right.
I think this effectively rules out games like Mass Effect, because even though there is a huge universe that exists outside of the plot, it's so closely tethered to the character of Shepard and his crew that any Mass Effect movie without them would feel odd. Instead, I'd agree that a game like Portal could become a great movie if they explored the background of Aperture Science, or built a new plot based on the portal gun technology. Sandbox games like the Elder Scrolls or Fallout series would also do nicely, since those games emphasize the actual world, which would then create a lot of material for a movie production team to work with. One notable exception I'd bring to all of this is the Assassin's Creed series. On the one hand, each individual title has a distinct plot, but subsequent titles have also changed the main character -- from Altair, to Ezio, to Connor. Given that, I think the movie can definitely create a new protagonist that would remain consistent to the overall theme of the franchise, and all of history would be open to them (because at this point, I don't think anyone's trying to retain any sort of realism or logic to Desmond's ancestry anymore).
I think this effectively rules out games like Mass Effect, because even though there is a huge universe that exists outside of the plot, it's so closely tethered to the character of Shepard and his crew that any Mass Effect movie without them would feel odd. Instead, I'd agree that a game like Portal could become a great movie if they explored the background of Aperture Science, or built a new plot based on the portal gun technology. Sandbox games like the Elder Scrolls or Fallout series would also do nicely, since those games emphasize the actual world, which would then create a lot of material for a movie production team to work with. One notable exception I'd bring to all of this is the Assassin's Creed series. On the one hand, each individual title has a distinct plot, but subsequent titles have also changed the main character -- from Altair, to Ezio, to Connor. Given that, I think the movie can definitely create a new protagonist that would remain consistent to the overall theme of the franchise, and all of history would be open to them (because at this point, I don't think anyone's trying to retain any sort of realism or logic to Desmond's ancestry anymore).
Bulletstorm could be done as a brainless action flick and I'd probably watch it. Metro 2033 and Deus Ex would both be amazing if done properly. An Elder Scrolls movie done in the style of a historical epic would be great, too. Make it about Tiber Septim's conquest of Tamriel. A Metroid Prime movie could be fun. Halo could be, but it'd take some real talent on the director's part to lift it above just another scifi action thing. Do it like Black Hawk Down or Apocalypse Now, or hell, make it a three hour long space opera.
I have to agree with assertions of Fallout. Also...
CNC already uses live actors. Pay them movie commissions and bust out the special effects budget and fight the good fight!
CNC already uses live actors. Pay them movie commissions and bust out the special effects budget and fight the good fight!
I certainly do not want how modern movie industry would butcher that masterpiece. Seriously, for starters I doubt they'd even understand the Planescape setting enough to know just what the the hell the plot is even about.Th3Ch33s3Cak3 said:
Then they'd shove in some happy rosy ending with Deionarra getting resurrected and her and TNO riding into a sunset while Annah opens a clinic for kids dealing with parent issues and Morte snatches a female skull from Lothar's shelf and they too ride happily into the sunset. And they'd kill off Dak'kon cause someine has to make the heroic sacrifice right. Then I would go all twitchy-eyed and start plotting cruel things to do to them for making me suffer so.
*shudder* I'm almost starting to plot cruel things to do to myself for merely thinking about all that.
Devil May Cry could make for a good movie
still think there's a good movie in the Mario franchise
then there's
Mega Man
Castlevania
The Legend of Zelda
Halo so long as they go with the lore and not the game
and
Metriod
still think there's a good movie in the Mario franchise
then there's
Mega Man
Castlevania
The Legend of Zelda
Halo so long as they go with the lore and not the game
and
Metriod
Anything can be made into a good movie depending on how much money is put into it and, who's working on the thing. I think really good bets though would be games like Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver (R-rated), Mega Man (PG-rated by Pixar), Adventure Island (PG-rated Pixar), Legend of Zelda (PG-13, live action) and, Final Fantasy (PG-13, original story based on one of the established worlds or another continuation such as Advent Children)
I would also love to see a Castlevania movie but I don't see it being given an R even though that would probably be the best way to go with it...
I would also love to see a Castlevania movie but I don't see it being given an R even though that would probably be the best way to go with it...