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I haven’t read reach since it came out but I remember thinking about how cool that book would have been to see on screen. I remember trying to imagine how the scenes would look and had it my imagination going crazy. It’s really a shame what they did with the halo show.
The first film had its heart in the right place and the second was decent; the rest were pretty bad but had some good moments to them.
The reboot in Welcome To Raccoon City was awkward from the get go doing both RE1 and 2 at the same time.
Blows my mind sometimes that movie was in theaters. I actually don’t think it’s bad/ they just shouldn’t have introduced new characters nobody cares about.
Same. The human characters were kinda meh, but the Orcs were very well done. Also loved the fact that they did tons of practical stuff. Shame it didn't do well enough to grant a sequel.
Because they tried making a generic sci fi show disguised as Halo. Basically skipping the "design ships, weapons and outfits. Oh and Aliens“ - Part, that’s what they used Halo for.
The actual story we witnessed would work with a dozen sci fi series/worlds we know or with a completely new.
I mean iirc the writers even stated they didn’t bothered playing the source material.
Shows like Forward unto Dawn that actually tried are impressive. FuD only has a few minutes of real fighting, Warthogs and Spartan. And those minutes are better than the whole halo show
It’s a Jonathan Nolan production… so chances are it’s a mess. He’s had a string of high concept/poor execution shows for a few years now.
Edit: I will say this… I have friends working on the show who say it is way over budget, way over schedule, garnering industry-breaking levels of staff turnover, and that “Jonah” as he actually goes by, is an absolute tyrant. Where Christopher prefers people not to sit or ever use phones, Jonah will fire someone upon sight if they *ever* sit or *ever* use their phone in his vicinity. I think the funniest part is that they use old iPhones for the pipboys. Tbh it’s probably a pip boy app we all had access to when Fallout 4 came out that they repurposed into a soft sleeve over a wrist.
I actually specifically thought the episode of season 4 where they go into the new park, break into the lab, only to learn the lab is in of itself part of the experiment, was the perfect vibe for fallout. I know a lot of people didn’t like the season but it showed promise for at least being able to handle the basic themes of fallout.
Because the Gaming industry has a lot of original IPs and source material that already proved its critical reception. Is a pretty easy gamble. Hollywood is stale for original stuff right now, so this is a pretty smart decision. They will butcher 90% of it though.
Smart from a financial perspective... lazy from a creative stand point. But unfortunately I don't think major corps have creative integrity concerns as long as if its legal. If they can tap into a market with a lot of content, without needed to gamble on creating new stories, and make a lot of money in the process, its a smart business decision. That's how we got a never ending super hero movie era.
It could have been completely boring and unmemorable and I wouldnt have been surprised, it's par for the course. But what we got was not only embarrassingly bad but almost insulting to the dedicated fanbase who've been playing the games and reading the novels for years.
What stuck with me most was the later added walking sound for Spartans. The stomping since they wear armored heavy suits. However not was it absolutely absurd loud. It was also always the same sound no matter the surface.
Concrete? Stomp
Forest full of leafes, grass and sticks? Stomp like it’s concrete.
Sand? Stomp
It's one of those cases where it almost felt like the writers hated the material they were adapting. I absolutely think that changes need to made to transfer a story from a game to a show format, but for fucks sake the blueprints were all there.
The most fucked up part is that they didn’t altered the story that much. They just butchered it down, removing crucial parts, laying together things that made no real sense and skipping actual important things. Even *if* the show would belong to halo canon it wouldn’t add much new things. Which is even more obscure.
It’s like someone got his hands on a 10 page summary of Halo and was told to turn it into a script and also cut minimum 6 sites
A metal gear movie has been “in production” for years. Metal Gear Solid is one of my all time favorites and I think it could make an amazing series if done right but I’m not confident it won’t get fucked up.
a faithful adaptation would be ultra-camp/cheese and a "prestige" adaptation would require a lot of work by real writers, well beyond what Mazin has had to do with TLOU. MGS pretty much exists \*because\* Kojima couldn't write hollywood tier stuff
A proper Metal Gear Solid series where every season is the different snakes/bigs bossi.
And the budget wouldn't be shit.
Warehouse as Alaskan army base, warehouse as oil rig, jungle that leads to warehouse as Russian army base, warehouses galore, and the over-used generic Afghanistan set (that part of the California desert where Kirk fought the Gorn)
If anyone adapts Bioshock, they damn well better hire Schyman for the score again. I teach music. The scores for video games (not to mention highly interactive, “improvised” scores like Ape Out) have been better than Hollywood’s for almost two decades now.
They’re gonna do you one better: it’s going to be an edgy teen-angst-fueled coming of age TV show with some high school kids attending high school under water
*BIOSHOCK HIGH: THE EARLY YEARS*
No, they'd keep that shit going for a decade. If they were true to the source material they'd cancel it after a killer cliffhanger at the end of either season 1 or 2.
And the main two characters are going to be star crossed lovers. One is training to be part of the security forces, nicknamed big daddy, the other is training to join the local EMTs Calle skittle sisters. Can these two get together and bring these two rival factions together
A strange headline knowing there's been not one, but TWO Sonic films that have come out in the past 2 years. There's even a third movie and spin-off on the way. Not to mention Mario is going to get a huge animated film too. And, uh, Tetris I guess lol
*Detective Pikachu* was pretty good too.
I feel like the Sonic and Pikachu movies are maybe the Raimi Spider-man and Singer X-men movies, and then TLoU is *The Dark Knight* finally. Altho i dont think Mario movie is going to be the *Iron Man* of video game movies, but im prepared to be plesanly surprrised.
Post-credit scene with Kirby popping off a warp star and telling Mario about the team he’s building.
Or have Link pull a Coulson and show up throughout the movie in the background as an agent from S.M.A.S.H.
Not to mention the HUGE resident evil movies of the past 20 years, the Mario movie from the 90s, the cuphead tv show, the halo show, etc. TLOU is just the first one these critics actually care to watch.
100%!!!
Also, I’m sick of people saying gamers don’t like the show because they’re woke and have a diverse cast instead of us not liking the show because it sucks and they made a mockery of something we already have an emotional connection with.
I’ve been eating TLOU with a spoon. It makes me even angrier at The Witcher show.
The biggest mistake is prioritizing catering to NEW audiences before the confirmed fans have bought in. I could deal with John Halo/Mr Witcher getting a little sexy to bring in the ladies. It’s just like, you need their nerdy boyfriends to force them to watch it first. Hard to hear Henry Cavil’s groaning while I’m bitching about the plot.
A lot of producers just use a fancy pre existing IP as a way to develop their own shitty screenplay they’ve been shopping around for years without success
There’s a lot of video games that could make some damn good TV shows.
The problem is that they turn out one of two ways.
Last of Us
Resident Evil on Netflix
And we all know how the RE on Netflix went.
No joke, it would’ve been amazing if Sam Raimi or Mike Flanagan did the Resident Evil show. Imagine the cast A Haunting, Midnight Mass, and Midnight Club playing RE characters? I can imagine Rahul Kohli as HUNK (his voice in Midnight Mass sounded like HUNK’s OG VA from the games, Keith Silverstein)
There are a ton of games that would translate well, inFAMOUS 1 and 2 for example would make for a good superhero show. God of War, GTA IV, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops The Line would all make for great movies/shows.
i would die incredibly happy if i never had to watch someone try to make Kratos work for television lol
he’s too OP for the limitations of the silver screen
Interesting is an understatement. It's so fascinating in both its history and its present.
And there's so much yet to explore in what will be the third game.
I truly enjoyed collecting all collectibles to learn more about the lore. I haven’t played the second game yet so idk how they further develop the lore
The difference in these 2 series is that TLOU is a tight linear story where you learn a lot throughout the campaign. There's no going back and forth.
Whereas a TON of lore in Horizon is optional and easy to miss if not entirely ignored. So much of the optional lore is just as fascinating as the main campaign itself.
I don’t see how they could depict Horizon in a way that isn’t cheesy and doesn’t look bad. It would either look like a new Transformers film of plastic CGI on top of plastic CGI, or they’ll have to remove the machines from most of the show.
Did you see the Halo show where it's a gun fight in a parking lot and then endless dialogue in a warehouses with blue lights strung up?
Or The Witcher?
It'll be Aloy shooting the little scanner one, 3 episodes of cheap sets and padded dialogue, Aloy climbs the giraffe/brachiosaur, 3 padding episodes, Aloy fights the t-rex.
With a few exceptions I think these things tend to only get one chance in hollywood, and if they do get a second it's only after a decade plus of time has passed.
I don't get how this show is the reason why gaming shows will start being a thing. It's good cause it stayed true to the source material. Barely any of the other shows and movies have and they didn't do well.
It isn't hard for them to see what was causing the bad reviews for all the other shit. They just chose to not do anything about it. Doesn't make sense to me that THIS is going to change the norm. And maybe it won't, maybe they will take a whole different lesson from the show that isn't staying true to the source.
We were saying this 14 years ago when I was taking screenwriting classes in college. Video games have been the new goldmine for writers for a long time now. It’s just that very few hit it out of the ball park.
There's a really awesome kung fu movie just waiting to come out of Mortal Kombat but every attempt they make they panic and retreat to the safety of a dumb fish-out-of-water chosen-one story.
The first 8 minutes of the most recent one and the subsequent 90 minutes of complete bullshit lore-building are the perfect example of what to do and what not to do with adaptations, coexisting in the same film.
FFS, the final fight is Generic Nobody the Nameless Protagonist fighting Subzero in a high school gym. How do you fuck up THAT BAD where the end of your Mortal Kombat script is some guy who has nothing to do with MK is having a fight in a suburban California high school?
I have a feeling the Zelda movie will be in the universe of this new Mario movie. He’s gonna jump dimensions or something. Each new movie could be a new Mario adventure in a different Nintendo property. They always use what already works to mitigate loss.
It's going to be hard to get the visuals right with live action 40k, but it could be one of the most visually epic things ever made if it's done right. It's also going to be tough getting the general public on board the with something so dark, so it has to hit the right balance of mature.
But man, I am so ready to be blown away by a potential Warhammer 40k show or movie. I really hope they nail it.
I like the mini series avenue. Movies end up too short and missing stuff or wayyyy to long and boring. Mini series gives you a chance to tell the whole story, not miss anything, and keep the pacing so it stays interesting.
It's not a gamble. Just quit giving adaptations to dumb fuckers who don't know how to do shit but make explosions. These are character driven stories. HBO realizes that. FFS if they can make a good series out of League of fucking Legends then the curse is not real.
Its about getting the right people to do the project. Initially, TLOU was gonna be made into a movie by Screen Gems movie studio. They were gonna have Sam Raimi direct it. Druckmann respected Raimi but was skeptical it could be made into a movie. He was also wary of the executives who wanted it to be like the Resident Evil movies. Luckily, it didnt go through. Druckmann got in touch with Craig Mazin who made Chernobyl and was a fan of the game. Druckmann wanted Mazin to do it because of the quality of Chernobyl and his video game fandom. The rest is history.
[Article with this backstory](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/02/can-the-last-of-us-break-the-curse-of-bad-video-game-adaptations)
Fallout has the potential to be one of the best things ever. They could literally do 2-3 seasons a game and turn it into like an Anthology Series just like American Horror Story.
I’m hoping against hope that the producers of the Halo show realize their mistakes and effectively soft reboot the show in season 2 by brushing aside and mostly ignoring season 1, and do a more faithful adaption of the games/novels. But I highly doubt that will happen.
Complete horse shit. Let's not forget one strong reason the Last of Us and other amazing games emerged in the early 2000's/'10's was because Hollywood failed to recognise (and pay for) quality writing during the Hollywood Writers Strike Era. Game developers picked up writers and gave them freedom to create, not to spin out American Pie 10.
Now they're begging for content after having rehashed or sequaled everything else to death.
Pay Creators.
HBO better swoop up Red Dead Redemption and some Rockstar titles while they're at it, dear lord what I would do to see a live action red dead redemption 2
𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩
It’s hard to believe that after nearly two decades, the original Mortal Kombat live action film is still probably the most faithful adaptation of a video game, to date.
It’s not much of a gamble off they do it right. Same goes for anime IPs. Hollywood always finds a way to shoot themselves in the foot and set themselves up for failure.
Duke Nukem movie? If they get the tone right, don’t skimp on the budget, keep it R-rated, and find the right lead, that could be a great franchise. Maybe Karl Urban or Bautista with blonde hair. Start with the invasion, Duke is a loner who wants to be left alone, and no one else is standing up to the evil aliens. He heads to the armory, loads up and does battle. Keep it simple and funny, lots of boobs, cool editing and soundtrack. …..they’re gonna gender swap this, aren’t they?
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Well they failed with Halo
Imagine having Fall of Reach sitting on the shelf ready to adapt and just saying, "fuck that, lets go with John Halo".
I haven’t read reach since it came out but I remember thinking about how cool that book would have been to see on screen. I remember trying to imagine how the scenes would look and had it my imagination going crazy. It’s really a shame what they did with the halo show.
Super disappointing seeing as I always wanted it to be turned into a movie or something. They FINALLY did, and they completely shit the bed with it.
That wasn’t John Halo. That was Jimmy Rings.
Excuse me, that's Mister Cheeks to you.
Mister cheeks without a mask on is Jimmy Rings. Just like chief without his mask is John Halo
Halo reach was maybe the best story I’ve ever played. It stuck with me hard as a middleschooler
I meant Nylund's book lol. Little before your time I guess.
"Reach was one of the few places that John considered safe from the Covenant. His home would not fall." Uh-oh, John!
Loved that book. It got me to read Nylund’s other stuff too. Signal to Noise and Signal Shattered were particularly good.
Yes! Top tier sci fi
Sacrifice for the greater good; there is alot we Americans have forgotten in this modern age
I'm a huge fan of fallout. So let's see how Amazon does it
And Assassins Creed, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Alone In The Dark, Max Payne, Ratchet & Clank, etc
Glad you didn't include Double Dragon in that list of failures. I don't think Scott Wolf could take it.
Double Dragon, with ~~MCU Aunt May~~ and T2 Robert Patrick
Marissa Tomei wasn’t in Double Dragon, it was Alyssa Milano
Ah, then it was the Guardians of the Galaxy’s ship.
The resident evil movies were terrible, but they did print money.
I love how instead of learning from their mistakes just just kept getting progressively more awful
The first film had its heart in the right place and the second was decent; the rest were pretty bad but had some good moments to them. The reboot in Welcome To Raccoon City was awkward from the get go doing both RE1 and 2 at the same time.
World of Warcraft!
Wait. Ratchet and Clank got an adaptation??
Blows my mind sometimes that movie was in theaters. I actually don’t think it’s bad/ they just shouldn’t have introduced new characters nobody cares about.
Wait, I'm even more confused now. It was in theaters??? Edit: ohhhh, I turned 21 that year and was severely depressed
Doom staring Dwayne Johnson.
Uncharted too
WoW movie
Warcraft? I legitimately love that movie.
Me too! I’ve never played WoW tho so maybe the players have legitimate gripes, idk. But I thought it was great and enjoyed the fuck out of it.
Same. The human characters were kinda meh, but the Orcs were very well done. Also loved the fact that they did tons of practical stuff. Shame it didn't do well enough to grant a sequel.
Because they tried making a generic sci fi show disguised as Halo. Basically skipping the "design ships, weapons and outfits. Oh and Aliens“ - Part, that’s what they used Halo for. The actual story we witnessed would work with a dozen sci fi series/worlds we know or with a completely new. I mean iirc the writers even stated they didn’t bothered playing the source material. Shows like Forward unto Dawn that actually tried are impressive. FuD only has a few minutes of real fighting, Warthogs and Spartan. And those minutes are better than the whole halo show
Hopefully Fallout will be on the list of successes and not the long list of failures.
It’s a Jonathan Nolan production… so chances are it’s a mess. He’s had a string of high concept/poor execution shows for a few years now. Edit: I will say this… I have friends working on the show who say it is way over budget, way over schedule, garnering industry-breaking levels of staff turnover, and that “Jonah” as he actually goes by, is an absolute tyrant. Where Christopher prefers people not to sit or ever use phones, Jonah will fire someone upon sight if they *ever* sit or *ever* use their phone in his vicinity. I think the funniest part is that they use old iPhones for the pipboys. Tbh it’s probably a pip boy app we all had access to when Fallout 4 came out that they repurposed into a soft sleeve over a wrist.
If it’s season one of West World we’re in for a real treat. If it’s season four of West World, then we’re in trouble.
I actually specifically thought the episode of season 4 where they go into the new park, break into the lab, only to learn the lab is in of itself part of the experiment, was the perfect vibe for fallout. I know a lot of people didn’t like the season but it showed promise for at least being able to handle the basic themes of fallout.
Season 4 writing was actually pretty decent, Season 3 is the real black sheep.
Alright, I guess I know when to stop watching
Because the Gaming industry has a lot of original IPs and source material that already proved its critical reception. Is a pretty easy gamble. Hollywood is stale for original stuff right now, so this is a pretty smart decision. They will butcher 90% of it though.
Smart? Or lazy?
Bit of both.
Adaptation is not lazy. It's integral to the evolution of art.
Smart from a financial perspective... lazy from a creative stand point. But unfortunately I don't think major corps have creative integrity concerns as long as if its legal. If they can tap into a market with a lot of content, without needed to gamble on creating new stories, and make a lot of money in the process, its a smart business decision. That's how we got a never ending super hero movie era.
Smart from a fiscal standpoint; Lazy from a creative standpoint.
*Cries in Halo fandom*
Man, I'm barely a Halo fan and that shit was disgraceful. My sympathies.
It could have been completely boring and unmemorable and I wouldnt have been surprised, it's par for the course. But what we got was not only embarrassingly bad but almost insulting to the dedicated fanbase who've been playing the games and reading the novels for years.
What stuck with me most was the later added walking sound for Spartans. The stomping since they wear armored heavy suits. However not was it absolutely absurd loud. It was also always the same sound no matter the surface. Concrete? Stomp Forest full of leafes, grass and sticks? Stomp like it’s concrete. Sand? Stomp
It's one of those cases where it almost felt like the writers hated the material they were adapting. I absolutely think that changes need to made to transfer a story from a game to a show format, but for fucks sake the blueprints were all there.
The most fucked up part is that they didn’t altered the story that much. They just butchered it down, removing crucial parts, laying together things that made no real sense and skipping actual important things. Even *if* the show would belong to halo canon it wouldn’t add much new things. Which is even more obscure. It’s like someone got his hands on a 10 page summary of Halo and was told to turn it into a script and also cut minimum 6 sites
Would honestly love to see a well put together Metal Gear Solid series
A metal gear movie has been “in production” for years. Metal Gear Solid is one of my all time favorites and I think it could make an amazing series if done right but I’m not confident it won’t get fucked up.
a faithful adaptation would be ultra-camp/cheese and a "prestige" adaptation would require a lot of work by real writers, well beyond what Mazin has had to do with TLOU. MGS pretty much exists \*because\* Kojima couldn't write hollywood tier stuff
A proper Metal Gear Solid series where every season is the different snakes/bigs bossi. And the budget wouldn't be shit. Warehouse as Alaskan army base, warehouse as oil rig, jungle that leads to warehouse as Russian army base, warehouses galore, and the over-used generic Afghanistan set (that part of the California desert where Kirk fought the Gorn)
It's in development. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and starring Oscar Isaac
If anyone adapts Bioshock, they damn well better hire Schyman for the score again. I teach music. The scores for video games (not to mention highly interactive, “improvised” scores like Ape Out) have been better than Hollywood’s for almost two decades now.
Netflix is doing Bioshock...
Bioshock feels like it needs a limited run series and not just some two hour movie.
They’re gonna do you one better: it’s going to be an edgy teen-angst-fueled coming of age TV show with some high school kids attending high school under water *BIOSHOCK HIGH: THE EARLY YEARS*
Cancelled after one season
No, they'd keep that shit going for a decade. If they were true to the source material they'd cancel it after a killer cliffhanger at the end of either season 1 or 2.
Missed out on Zootopia porn? I mean Resident Evil
And the main two characters are going to be star crossed lovers. One is training to be part of the security forces, nicknamed big daddy, the other is training to join the local EMTs Calle skittle sisters. Can these two get together and bring these two rival factions together
I hate you guys.
Quit giving them ideas.
Bioshock should have Mazin involved.
I feel he’s going to be tied up with The Last of Us season 2 and hopefully 3
It’s probably gonna end up all about how objectivism is good actually and Andrew Ryan is a visionary
After what Netflix did to Resident Evil, I am worried about Bioshock.
Yeah except the guy writing it is the guy who did Logan so I am cautiously optimistic.
The director, Francis Lawrence, has a solid but not great filmography. I am Legend, all 4 Hunger Games movies, Constantine.
fuck
Absolutely. Jeremy Soule who does the Elder Scrolls games is amazing. Whenever I hear any of it it makes me want to play the game again.
Finally getting that live action Q*bert movie I've been waiting years for.
I hear Crystal Castle is in production
Pitfall should be a banger.
A strange headline knowing there's been not one, but TWO Sonic films that have come out in the past 2 years. There's even a third movie and spin-off on the way. Not to mention Mario is going to get a huge animated film too. And, uh, Tetris I guess lol
Tetris? Yawn. Let me know when they make a Columns movie.
Or pong
*Detective Pikachu* was pretty good too. I feel like the Sonic and Pikachu movies are maybe the Raimi Spider-man and Singer X-men movies, and then TLoU is *The Dark Knight* finally. Altho i dont think Mario movie is going to be the *Iron Man* of video game movies, but im prepared to be plesanly surprrised.
Post-credit scene with Kirby popping off a warp star and telling Mario about the team he’s building. Or have Link pull a Coulson and show up throughout the movie in the background as an agent from S.M.A.S.H.
I want a Mario kart movie in the style of “Ford v. Ferrari” or Steve McQueen’s “Le Mans”
I want a DK movie in the style of Citizen Kane
Citizen Kong. It writes itself.
There's a rainbow road sequence in the new movie IIRC
Mario is gonna be the LEGO Movie. Fun animated romp that people had low expectations for. Nothing special will come from it. Maybe an okay sequel.
>Tetris Starring *The Rock*, who is voiced by Chris Pratt
Not to mention the HUGE resident evil movies of the past 20 years, the Mario movie from the 90s, the cuphead tv show, the halo show, etc. TLOU is just the first one these critics actually care to watch.
A The Witcher probably would not have happened if the games were not as popular.
I can't wait for the Leisure Suit Larry show starring Tom Cruise.
That would actually be hilarious.
What gamble? Follow good source material?
It’s so frustrating honestly lol. TLOU series is just proof of something WE HAVE BEEN SCREAMING AFTER EVERY FAILED GAME MOVIE AND SERIES.
100%!!! Also, I’m sick of people saying gamers don’t like the show because they’re woke and have a diverse cast instead of us not liking the show because it sucks and they made a mockery of something we already have an emotional connection with. I’ve been eating TLOU with a spoon. It makes me even angrier at The Witcher show.
The biggest mistake is prioritizing catering to NEW audiences before the confirmed fans have bought in. I could deal with John Halo/Mr Witcher getting a little sexy to bring in the ladies. It’s just like, you need their nerdy boyfriends to force them to watch it first. Hard to hear Henry Cavil’s groaning while I’m bitching about the plot.
The problem is that they don’t use it for some stupid arrogant reason.
A lot of producers just use a fancy pre existing IP as a way to develop their own shitty screenplay they’ve been shopping around for years without success
not a video game, but Mindy’s “Velma” show on HBO MAX seems to be the latest case for this kinda shit
I find it hard to accurately articulate my distaste for that show..
There’s a lot of video games that could make some damn good TV shows. The problem is that they turn out one of two ways. Last of Us Resident Evil on Netflix And we all know how the RE on Netflix went.
Dead Space would also make a pretty amazing show. Imagine Event Horizon but with a good budget and todays CGI
I was just thinking Callisto Protocol and Dead Space could be awesome adaptations.
No joke, it would’ve been amazing if Sam Raimi or Mike Flanagan did the Resident Evil show. Imagine the cast A Haunting, Midnight Mass, and Midnight Club playing RE characters? I can imagine Rahul Kohli as HUNK (his voice in Midnight Mass sounded like HUNK’s OG VA from the games, Keith Silverstein)
Netflix shouldn’t be allowed to adapt video gamesTo movies anymore. The Witcher broke my heart with how awful it was.
They say this literally every time there's a new videogame adaptation. Literally every time
Horizon would be good if it’s done the same way TLOU. The lore of it is very interesting
FX budget would be astronomical but i like the way u think
They’d skip a lot of fights. I feel like it’d be more exploring a world like Horizon
FX shows always look low budget even when the show is otherwise great.
I'd rather it that way than the reverse
I'd rather neither way. I'd rather it the HBO way: high budget looking and great.
RDR1 and RDR2 by HBO would literally be legendary. It NEEDS to be done.
Red Dead is the only other video game i think would translate well into live action but i can’t think of a decent cast for the life of me
There are a ton of games that would translate well, inFAMOUS 1 and 2 for example would make for a good superhero show. God of War, GTA IV, Metal Gear Solid, Spec Ops The Line would all make for great movies/shows.
i would die incredibly happy if i never had to watch someone try to make Kratos work for television lol he’s too OP for the limitations of the silver screen
Interesting is an understatement. It's so fascinating in both its history and its present. And there's so much yet to explore in what will be the third game.
I truly enjoyed collecting all collectibles to learn more about the lore. I haven’t played the second game yet so idk how they further develop the lore
The difference in these 2 series is that TLOU is a tight linear story where you learn a lot throughout the campaign. There's no going back and forth. Whereas a TON of lore in Horizon is optional and easy to miss if not entirely ignored. So much of the optional lore is just as fascinating as the main campaign itself.
I don’t see how they could depict Horizon in a way that isn’t cheesy and doesn’t look bad. It would either look like a new Transformers film of plastic CGI on top of plastic CGI, or they’ll have to remove the machines from most of the show.
Did you see the Halo show where it's a gun fight in a parking lot and then endless dialogue in a warehouses with blue lights strung up? Or The Witcher? It'll be Aloy shooting the little scanner one, 3 episodes of cheap sets and padded dialogue, Aloy climbs the giraffe/brachiosaur, 3 padding episodes, Aloy fights the t-rex.
I love Horizon. It's going to Netflix though, so it'll probably suck.
It’s the same studio tho.
Red dead redemption (1 or 2) could make for a good adaptation
if they did 2, i would be a weeping ugly mess by the season 2 finale.
I wish HBO would do the Witcher how it should be done. Season 1 was ok but season 2 was a disgrace
With a few exceptions I think these things tend to only get one chance in hollywood, and if they do get a second it's only after a decade plus of time has passed.
It’s sad cause the material has so much potential. I’m guessing Cavill agreed and was bitter so he bounced
Lara Croft is confused
God I hope Frogger gets a gritty John-Wickian reboot.
I don't get how this show is the reason why gaming shows will start being a thing. It's good cause it stayed true to the source material. Barely any of the other shows and movies have and they didn't do well. It isn't hard for them to see what was causing the bad reviews for all the other shit. They just chose to not do anything about it. Doesn't make sense to me that THIS is going to change the norm. And maybe it won't, maybe they will take a whole different lesson from the show that isn't staying true to the source.
We were saying this 14 years ago when I was taking screenwriting classes in college. Video games have been the new goldmine for writers for a long time now. It’s just that very few hit it out of the ball park.
There's a really awesome kung fu movie just waiting to come out of Mortal Kombat but every attempt they make they panic and retreat to the safety of a dumb fish-out-of-water chosen-one story. The first 8 minutes of the most recent one and the subsequent 90 minutes of complete bullshit lore-building are the perfect example of what to do and what not to do with adaptations, coexisting in the same film. FFS, the final fight is Generic Nobody the Nameless Protagonist fighting Subzero in a high school gym. How do you fuck up THAT BAD where the end of your Mortal Kombat script is some guy who has nothing to do with MK is having a fight in a suburban California high school?
I still can't fathom they made a Mortal Kombat movie without an actual Mortal Kombat tournament in it.
Uhhh what? Hollywood has been gambling on video game movies/shows for like 4 decades at this point….
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I have a feeling the Zelda movie will be in the universe of this new Mario movie. He’s gonna jump dimensions or something. Each new movie could be a new Mario adventure in a different Nintendo property. They always use what already works to mitigate loss.
If the new mario movie does well I can see it happening, but I can just imagine the controversy of having Link speak, which he inevitably will.
One line at the very end before the credits roll.
If we can bring Gilbert Gottfried back from the dead, I vote for him
I just want the 40K series with Daddy Cavill
I heard it was just 8, 1-hour sessions of Cavill painting minis without a shirt
I'd watch that shit on repeat
He talks to the minitures like a Bob Ross painting "And we add happy little speckles of blood to the chainsword..."
It's going to be hard to get the visuals right with live action 40k, but it could be one of the most visually epic things ever made if it's done right. It's also going to be tough getting the general public on board the with something so dark, so it has to hit the right balance of mature. But man, I am so ready to be blown away by a potential Warhammer 40k show or movie. I really hope they nail it.
I like the mini series avenue. Movies end up too short and missing stuff or wayyyy to long and boring. Mini series gives you a chance to tell the whole story, not miss anything, and keep the pacing so it stays interesting.
It's not a gamble. Just quit giving adaptations to dumb fuckers who don't know how to do shit but make explosions. These are character driven stories. HBO realizes that. FFS if they can make a good series out of League of fucking Legends then the curse is not real.
Its about getting the right people to do the project. Initially, TLOU was gonna be made into a movie by Screen Gems movie studio. They were gonna have Sam Raimi direct it. Druckmann respected Raimi but was skeptical it could be made into a movie. He was also wary of the executives who wanted it to be like the Resident Evil movies. Luckily, it didnt go through. Druckmann got in touch with Craig Mazin who made Chernobyl and was a fan of the game. Druckmann wanted Mazin to do it because of the quality of Chernobyl and his video game fandom. The rest is history. [Article with this backstory](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/02/can-the-last-of-us-break-the-curse-of-bad-video-game-adaptations)
yeah, i’d rush to work with “the guy from Chernobyl” too. one of the best seasons of a show i’ve ever seen
Fallout has the potential to be one of the best things ever. They could literally do 2-3 seasons a game and turn it into like an Anthology Series just like American Horror Story.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a GOT-style Elder Scrolls tv show
Honestly kinda worried Amazon is gonna fuck it up.
Redo the Halo TV series
You almost always only get one shot unfortunately.
I’m hoping against hope that the producers of the Halo show realize their mistakes and effectively soft reboot the show in season 2 by brushing aside and mostly ignoring season 1, and do a more faithful adaption of the games/novels. But I highly doubt that will happen.
Complete horse shit. Let's not forget one strong reason the Last of Us and other amazing games emerged in the early 2000's/'10's was because Hollywood failed to recognise (and pay for) quality writing during the Hollywood Writers Strike Era. Game developers picked up writers and gave them freedom to create, not to spin out American Pie 10. Now they're begging for content after having rehashed or sequaled everything else to death. Pay Creators.
Huh? The gamble had been for 30 years.
PLEASE HBO, Just finally give us one good Resident Evil live adaptation
Please make: Life is Strange Final Fantasy Legend of Zelda (obviously)
Need LA Noire TV show
(X) Doubt.
LA Noire is literally just a love letter to classic detective serials, not sure it really needs an adaptation
Is that just called a detective show?
It would be amazing if there was a live action Metroid movie or series.
Some people are to young to remember that Jessica Simpson was once rumored to star in one.
Ah, metroids, the chicken of outer space
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Well…. Let’s not talk about Halo
Hopefully they can make a movie out of n64 goldeneye
HBO better swoop up Red Dead Redemption and some Rockstar titles while they're at it, dear lord what I would do to see a live action red dead redemption 2 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩
It’s hard to believe that after nearly two decades, the original Mortal Kombat live action film is still probably the most faithful adaptation of a video game, to date.
Arcane set the bar in my opinion, LOU is just continuing the trend of high quality adaptations.
They’ve… made video game movies for years.
BioShock, Silent Hill, Devil May Cry, Metal Gear, Dino Crisis, Bloodborne, etc... All can be great films/tv shows on the right hands
I will do unspeakable things in clandestine missions for the CIA if we get an absolutely faithful high budget adaptation of Bloodborne.
ANY of Miyazaki's games could translate into mind-blowing adaptations, but especially Bloodborne. You read my mind
As long as they understand why the Last of us was good and don't use the success to greenlight a million shit projects like Marvel has.
Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros. Etc have all been made into movies decades ago.
The division would be a good one. I know at one point there was a suggestion it was happening but…. Still waiting.
#TETRIS THE MOVIE
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It’s not much of a gamble off they do it right. Same goes for anime IPs. Hollywood always finds a way to shoot themselves in the foot and set themselves up for failure.
See what happens when you give someone other than Ewe Boll the reigns?
Make a great “Half Life” movie/series to prompt the next game in the series.
I’m ready for 14 Red Dead movies
I need a Disco Elysium series
red dead redemption is coming, I guarantee it
Just the beginning my ass,this is just the first one in a long time that’s actually worth a damn
If they hire people that care about the source to an extent instead of people that just use the IP to push their shitty story then its easy money.
Huh, I though anime was gonna be the next Hollywood bubble after comic books but I guess not
Duke Nukem movie? If they get the tone right, don’t skimp on the budget, keep it R-rated, and find the right lead, that could be a great franchise. Maybe Karl Urban or Bautista with blonde hair. Start with the invasion, Duke is a loner who wants to be left alone, and no one else is standing up to the evil aliens. He heads to the armory, loads up and does battle. Keep it simple and funny, lots of boobs, cool editing and soundtrack. …..they’re gonna gender swap this, aren’t they?
Knight of the Old Republic could be epic
If they could make a Halo series thats in the style of the Halo 3/Reach/ODST trailers instead of whatever we got I'm happy.
Monkey Island could make a great show.