Game to Movie Transitions

[Drighton]

Games are making their way to the big screen, thanks to Uwe Boll for the most part, who seems to be the only active game-movie creator.

For me, though, none of the movies that have been made now or in the past would be my choice. This made me wonder:

What would your ideal game/game franchise to movie be? In other words, which game do you most want to see made into a movie?

Would your ideal movie:
- Pick up where the previous game left off?
- Follow the story of the game (the movie would be the Origin story)?
- A new story in the same world?
- Feature new characters or same characters?

This question would, of course, warrant a few assumptions:
Assumption the First: The movie will rock
Assumption the Second: The script will be an awesome transition from the game to the movie
Assumption the Third:  The actors will fit each role to the T and display ungodly ammounts of talent and skill while playing their roles
Assumption the Fourth: The movie will overall be a huge success, breaking box office records and generally be the best movie ever made in the history of cinema.

That should settle the IF factor.

I only bring up this topic because I began to think just how awesome it would be to see the Tiberium universe of Command & Conquer on the movie screen. I imagine this movie would be on the far side of the R rating (meaning probably pushing NC-17) if it were to portray the kind of violence and cruelties most players inflicted upon their opponents in the games. Taking the assumptions into consideration, the movie would be awesome even if it was PG or PG13.

Ideally for me, it would be an origin story, or at least have a narrative detailing the initial strike and spread of tiberium, but perhaps follow a fresh story of the struggle between GDI and NOD, featuring the Kane and whoever the GDI leader(s) was/were. (Can you tell which side I play?)

[DragonBlaze]

Well i wouldn't want it to have the SAME story as the game. I'd want to see something new, not something I've already played in a game.

I like it when the heros of the game are in the movie, but they wouldn't have to be the main characters in it. They should be there just so you know what happened to them or what not.

Either way, I believe a movie should expand on the game world rather than trying to do something completely new. Kind of like an expansion pack in a game. A movie is only an hour or two long in most cases, and to try and make a completely new plot would mean it would have to be shallow in most cases, in order to make a complex story, they'll have to tie into the original story and pull things out of that. If a completely new story would be made, they might as well just make an original movie anyway.

[Razor]

Originally posted by Drighton
What would your ideal game/game franchise to movie be? In other words, which game do you most want to see made into a movie?

Nothing, I'd rather not see my favourite game raped by the big screen.


Halo, will hopefully be good. Money, Peter Jackson, (and Ewe Boll is writing the script!)

[Drighton]

Originally posted by Razor

quote:

Originally posted by Drighton What would your ideal game/game franchise to movie be? In other words, which game do you most want to see made into a movie?

Nothing, I'd rather not see my favourite game raped by the big screen.


Halo, will hopefully be good. Money, Peter Jackson, (and Ewe Boll is writing the script!)

This is the expected reply to a topic such as this, hence the four assumptions:

Originally posted by Drighton

This question would, of course, warrant a few assumptions:
Assumption the First: The movie will rock
Assumption the Second: The script will be an awesome transition from the game to the movie
Assumption the Third:  The actors will fit each role to the T and display ungodly ammounts of talent and skill while playing their roles
Assumption the Fourth: The movie will overall be a huge success, breaking box office records and generally be the best movie ever made in the history of cinema.

That should settle the IF factor.

Hell, I wouldn't want a C&C movie if the general consensus was that it was going to suck royally.

[Moosetroop11]

Mechcommander. Why haven't they made a movie? The game was god in disk form.

[blackskullwarlock]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It's excellent movie material and also a TV serie. John Woo is working on Battle of the Red Cliffs which is a part of the game. Someone need to make a complete one...it would last like 10 hours...

[WarxePB]

My ideal game movie would be Metroid - if done right, it could be an awesome action-thriller, and Metroids > teh pwnage. Or maybe a Zelda movie, with the same kind of premise but with Moblins and Octoroks.
But, since Nintendo's never gonna let either of those happen, my third choice would be an FF6 movie, telling what happened after Kefka's demise, or maybe what happened in the year between the WoB's demise and Celes' awakening.

[Meiscool-2]

They should make a movie about FF7, only it involves clones rather then actual villains.

[blackskullwarlock]

@Warxe: Metroid the movie has been announced. Produced by John Woo, ironically enough.

Click me

[DragonBlaze]

Oh, I guess i didn't read it close enough. I say they should make a movie on the breath of fire series. Go dragons  

[Meiscool-2]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze
Oh, I guess i didn't read it close enough. I say they should make a movie on the breath of fire series. Go dragons  

Maybe then they'll name the guy something other then Ryu.

[Razor]

Originally posted by blackskullwarlock
@Warxe: Metroid the movie has been announced. Produced by John Woo, ironically enough.

Click me

One thing that bothers me, is that movies are made of dialogue.

Metriod is not a dialogue game. I mean, we can't just have Samus walking around thinking outloud "This isn't natural" "Space pirates have been here" "I haven't had KFC in years" "it's a trap!" "gasp!"

And God forbid if they give her some really gay sidekick to talk to and have a romance with.

[Snake Eater]

METAL GEAR SOLID. hands down.

[ZeroKirbyX]

Originally posted by Razor

quote:

Originally posted by blackskullwarlock @Warxe: Metroid the movie has been announced. Produced by John Woo, ironically enough. Click me

And God forbid if they give her some really gay sidekick to talk to and have a romance with.

*cough*Tomb Raider*cough*

I think it would be interesting to see how an F-ZERO movie would turn out. I mean, an ACTUAL fist fight between Falcon and Goroh/Deathborn/Shadow/Blood Falcon/Chain/Zoda/etc would be awesome. And Don Genie. Fat guy + machine gun= awesome.

[Shady Ultima]

Legend of Zelda. I think that they could make such a fantastic movie out of the basic story. But, if it happens, hope that Nintendo has some part in writing the story.