Your Game gets The Walking Dead Treatment....

[The_Deleted]

Your much loved game is being considered for a TV series and needs a director and cast. You have been put in charge of navigating your beloved story toward the small screen. Money is of no concern.

For me I'd have to have the Kratos Chronicles... or maybe The Chronicles of Kratos.

I'd get this dude:

to play Kratos.

and the production team behind Spartacus to run the whole thing.


The success of the Spartacus series has proven that there is an audience for incredible graphic violence on the small screen. God of War seems like a no brainer!

*moaning that "game never work as films... yadda yadda..." is missing the point of a hypothetical situation. Stating that 'oh my choice would be far too tricky' can also get bent. Ofcourse we'd all love to see Katamari cartoons sitting alongside Chowder.

 

[Rawne1980]

I know it's already been made into a (crap) series but i'd love to see a live action movie of The Witcher.

Liam Neeson as Geralt.

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

Splinter Cell, all of it or at least Conviction, Sam Fisher George Clooney or Richard Burgi for Double Agent for a lead in, do it now.

It has the drama, suspense, ass kickingness, and George Clooney already sounds like Sam Fisher and aged well.

Another game that would do well in a similar tv series Rainbow Six: Vegas and Vegas 2. If money truly is no object we can level Vegas to produce it.

A man can dream.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I think that Grand Theft Auto, specifically in the vain of 4 would be actually quite ideal for a TV series. With film there is always the issue of depth but with a TV series you can really flesh things out. With it's very long spanning plot that centres on the power struggles/balances of mob factions, with the scales tipped by the actions of a morally ambiguous protagonist, his interactions with the collection of psychotic, egotistical, insidious, corrupt, avaricious and generally hilarious characters; I think it would play out like a more satirically minded version of The Sopranos. In the right hands of course. I wander if David Chase is doing anything right now...

 

[krazykidd]

Splinter Cell, all of it or at least Conviction, Sam Fisher George Clooney or Richard Burgi for Double Agent for a lead in, do it now.

It has the drama, suspense, ass kickingness, and George Clooney already sounds like Sam Fisher and aged well.

Another game that would do well in a similar tv series Rainbow Six: Vegas and Vegas 2. If money truly is no object we can level Vegas to produce it.

A man can dream.

Isn't the splinter cell show already called 24?

 

[Kyrian007]

Well, if money were no object... then licensing would be no object. I'd look into a Friday or Saturday night (only megafans and dvr's) "Masterpiece Theater"-ish series based upon video games. Guest writers and directors, perhaps even a few episodes written by the creators of the game themselves. Limitless possibilities here. A possible scuedule...

Week 1 - William Gibson with a story set in the world of Bullfrog's "Syndicate."
Week 2 - A story set on "Borderland's" Pandora by Joe R. Lansdale.
Weeks 3 and 4 - The story of Silent Hill 2 written by Hiroyuki Owaku (and team) and directed by... I don't know Del Torro maybe. Or someone like Dewy Humphries (he directed Neverwhere for Neil Gaiman.)

And the best thing is you could have the fans writing in with suggestions for stories or writers and so on. Plus with the video game players getting older and more established in the tv and movie making world; several actors, directors, writers, and so on would probably love to take some time to put together an episode. I'm sure Edgar Wright would be first in line on that list.

I really miss that sort of show. Jim Henson's "The Storyteller" was a really good one. Twilight Zone was obviously the best of it. But recent revivals like the new "Twilight Zone" (which was pretty bad,) NBC's "Fear Itself" (wihch was ok to fairly good,) and Steven King's "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" all did fairly poorly. Perhaps with a video game influence and gamer fan backing, a show like this would do well enough in dvr, streams, and DVD sales to go on for a bit.

 

[g00n77]

angry birds the sitcom

 

[VanQ]

Money is of no concern?

Warcraft TV series done in glorious Blizzard Cutscene 3DCG. Have it directed by whoever already directed and animated by whoever already does their cutscenes. I'll be damned if that team doesn't make the most gorgeous 3DCG in the world.

52 episodes long too, so it can enjoy a good span long enought to get out a serious story and have some spare time for some fun. Damnit, I know this will never happen. Just like the movie.

 

[Gaijud]

Two words, Mass Effect.

Ok, so this is not as easy I guess, since everyone has their own idea of Sheppard. Still, I would love to revisit this world in the vein of any number of sci-fi shows like Firefly of Farscape, as the crew of the Normandy jaunts across the galaxy. Could have planet/alien of the week episodes interspersed with the Reaper mytharc. Kinda formulaic, but just imagine this on a decent budget!

 

[hitman_7]

A TV series about Deus ex or Assassins creed would be awesome to

 

[9thRequiem]

Not so much a game as a game setting, but I would like to see a TV series in the Fallout universe.
Vault opens at the start, and a number of vault-dwellers have to find their place in a wasteland they're just not prepared for.

Also, mutant bears.

 

[BadPublicity]

Killing Floor: The Movie, now THAT is something I would pay money to go see!

 

[BlastedTheWorm]

It's not my favourite game as such, but I'm doing it because it works well.

Spoiler: Halo ODST, staring these three.

 

[ABLb0y]

Final Fantasy 13.

Samuel L Jackson as Sazh

Emily Browning as Vanille

Natalie Portman as Lightning

Johnny Depp as Snow

Megan Fox as Fang

Mila Kunis as Serah

Jimmy Bennet as Hope