Games to the big screen is anything possible?

[Darkstar]

with the recent trend in making movies off of games and such, i wonder which game would you like to see become a movie?

i think in keeping with the game storyline and characters such as resident evil 1 and 2 it can turn out pretty good, im not saying the movies were outstanding but they kept true to the game and in places where as closed to it as if it was the game that was playing out.

with VFX playing the main part of any sci fi movie it seems that any game could potentially become a movie at some stage

with the recent aticipation of the movies halo and doom it seems this trend is set to grow bigger and in the area of sci fi and action fiction if thats such a genre, but still which games would you like to see become a movie and it could be anything not just sci fi fantasy as well?

[Qtyled]

Perfect Game for a movie? Metel Gear Solid. The game had such a cinematic and (Especially "The Twin Snakes") scripted storyline, many of the problems that game-to-movie transitions usually have would'nt apply.

[Kensterman]

Hmm, well they already did Doom recently. I think the FPS type of games going to Hollywood now falls in the "HoHum" category. Unless they can make it more than just a shooter/action flick away from the usual, it'll sell. Of course, for entertainment wise, nothing wrong with the usual, but if they want to see big $$, it'll have to be deeper. It would be interesting if they can adapt an Fantasy RPG into the big screen. Ie. the award winning Baldur's Gate or NeverWinter Nights per se.

How about the Tom Clancy Rainbow series?

[yaaayoubetcha]

I'd love to see Max Payne on the big screen.

it's a shooter that's story driven...don't just have to clear levels like most others.

also...original Unreal.

and...Myst would be interesting.

[Kensterman]

<smacks own forehead>. How could I missed them titles! Myst would be supercool. Just like Final Fantasy, it'll be interesting.

Actually, the novels of Myst might hold ground for a big movie too.

I'd love to see Max Payne on the big screen.

it's a shooter that's story driven...don't just have to clear levels like most others.

also...original Unreal.

and...Myst would be interesting.

[Kensterman]

However, I can see Halo coming to the Big Screen later...the title has generated enough $$ to justify it to having more.

[kharn the betrayer]

However, I can see Halo coming to the Big Screen later...the title has generated enough $$ to justify it to having more.

Um Halo IS getting a movie



but any ways I wouldent mind anouther animated Sonic the hedgehog movie Based on either Sonic Adventure or Sonic Adventure 2

[AGateFan]

Chronicals of Riddick.... oh wait.

EDIT: Chronicals of Riddick: Escape from Butchers Bay is a great game BTW, many think it was better then the movie. I actually liked the movie so I guess I can't comment, but I did love the game. Not for those that cant stand cursing though because although you can turn off the "gore" you cannot turn off the "bad language" and there is a tone of it said and written on the walls.... it is after all a game about escaping a triple max prison.

[Agent_Dark]

Chronicals of Riddick.... oh wait.

EDIT: Chronicals of Riddick: Escape from Butchers Bay is a great game BTW, many think it was better then the movie. I actually liked the movie so I guess I can't comment, but I did love the game. Not for those that cant stand cursing though because although you can turn off the "gore" you cannot turn off the "bad language" and there is a tone of it said and written on the walls.... it is after all a game about escaping a triple max prison.

lol, but the movie came before the game

Apparently FarCry is in the works for a movie. And the same director (Uwe Boll) has a few other Big screen adaptions of games in the works as well - Hunter: The Reckoning, Fear Effect, In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Seige Tale. But he's done alot of very crappy movies in the past, and I've read that he's basically just churning out game adaption after game adaption to cut a tax break or something... (no idea how true those stories are though). So don't expect too much from them

[Darkstar]

we need a megga big movie somethime soon, i think movies recently are not as good as they used to be maybe the writters aren't given free range to be creative becuase it will not make money or my taste in movies has changed so much i cannot enjoy such flicks as starwars and such.

[skritsys]

It gets really frustrating IMO, they want to movie-fy every game out there and most of them just plain suck.

[aAnubiSs]

StarCraft would make an excellent TV-show, it would be too short with just a movie. Would be even better if it wasn't the games storyline too, but it shouldn't be a totally new, and screwed up, storyline like DooM for example. I've wanted a dark sci-fi show, much darker then parts of B5, and StarCraft has an awsome atmosphere.

[@Li3n]

Game movies will never be great as long as the people that write them don't have a clue about what the game is about. At least they could have the scripts checked and approved by the people that made the damn game, instead they just use the name and make up a story that fits loosely with the overall premise of the game. Then they just assume that they failed because they were based on a video game.

Things seem different with Halo, lets hope it works : http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=19905

[dosed150]

Hmm, well they already did Doom recently. I think the FPS type of games going to Hollywood now falls in the "HoHum" category. Unless they can make it more than just a shooter/action flick away from the usual, it'll sell. Of course, for entertainment wise, nothing wrong with the usual, but if they want to see big $$, it'll have to be deeper. It would be interesting if they can adapt an Fantasy RPG into the big screen. Ie. the award winning Baldur's Gate or NeverWinter Nights per se.

How about the Tom Clancy Rainbow series?

rainbow six actually started as a book and i think 4 other clancy novels have been made into films so i dont see why they shouldnt make it into a film

[Hatcheter]

However, I can see Halo coming to the Big Screen later...the title has generated enough $$ to justify it to having more.

Unfotunately, Halo is too later for me: Summer, 2007. Ah well, I guess we gotta give them enough time to film it properly.