Uncharted and a Tomb Raider reboot are currently being made. Any chance one of them will be good?
shareI hear the "Tetris" movie will be a landmark picture of mind-bendingly surreal psychology as the characters delve into the twisted world of a madman who insists they fit together all manner of oddly-shaped geometric figures or he'll blow up the world with an even BIGGER Death Star than TFA. ;D
shareI'm also eagerly awaiting the morose and melancholy drama which is being entitled, "Candyland".
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Tomb Riader might have a chance it's got a solid team behind it, Geneva Robertson - wrote it and she's high on writing room lists for many franchise films, Roar Uthaug is also pretty well acclaimed in Norway and has a lot of well received films. The cast is solid but so was the cast in this.
shareThe only thing that can is if they make video game movies that actually have a good story, and not just 'a good story for a video game'. The fact that the video game industry went nuts over The Last of Us, when its story was nothing more than Children of Men with a bunch of zombie movie cliches, tells us how dire video game stories are.
Video game stories have usually been done a thousand times on screen. The best stories are usually games that are close to movies already, like The Walking Dead or Heavy Rain. The games they choose to make movies out of have no story or so little story that they make up their own anyway.
Uncharted has an alright story, but none of the games are much more than Indiana Jones rip-offs. No plot points or characters are overly original and it will show on the screen. The new Tomb Raider is the same. Lara's character is great but the story is little more than her saving her friends on an island.
The best bet to break the curse would be to adapt a game where the story comes first. My picks would be:
- To the Moon. Probably the best story in a game I've seen so far. Would make for a great romance-family film
- Alan Wake. Makes for a great Stephen King-like horror film.
- Chrono Trigger. Another family film.
- Spec Ops: The Line. A war/horror film.
- Bioshock. Get rid of the first-person shooter aspect and its a great story. Get the atmosphere right and it could be a really interesting mystery-thriller.
Their problem is that they try to make action-blockbuster movies out of action-blockbuster games. Very little action blockbusters get good reviews at all. To make a good video game movie, find an original game and base the movie off what made the game original. Keep making action game movies like Assassin's Creed and Tomb Raider and all we will continue to find out is how bad their storylines really are.
Personally, what I think makes a great video game movies is not story, but the world-building and gameplay elements translated to actions in movies. Many story-heavy video games mostly borrow from movies already, it's gonna be just bad if they're adapted again to a movie.
Games with unique world-building or design and gameplay elements will make a better, more stand-out movie, with little to none of the story and characters from the game is adapted. For example, Assassin's Creed. Using mostly original story and characters makes non-gamer audience can follow more easily, and gamer audience aren't bored with what they've already played or hard pressed to find any difference with the original source. It also incorporate gameplay elements and designs unique to the game and haven't been done that much in other movies, like parkour, leap of faith, even the hidden blade.
Now, Alan Wake is just your usual thriller movie/TV show adapted to video games. I don't think it would be wise to "reverse-adapt" it back to movie.
Bioshock could work though. It does have unique elements in the game that's not seen much in movies, like the creepy future-retro environment, the gameplay mechanics, and the design of Big Daddy is also pretty original.
Ever since I saw the Doom movie and played Doom 3, I always wanted to remake the movie and do it properly. Not sure if the movie would be green lit or be released. It would probably be NC-17 but edited down for an R rating with the NC-17/Unrated Cut on Blu-Ray. Plus I'd want it to be 3 hours (I like longer movies). But my remake would involve opening a portal to Hell and having the demons come through that way instead of a science project gone wrong and turning scientists into "Hell Knights" and "Imps" and also "Pinky." Final act/fight would even take place in Hell. BFG would also be used properly. And there would be a bunch of demonic/satanic stuff, that I'm sure religious people would protest to have it banned. That's why I say I don't know if it'd be green lit/approved and/or released. Oh, and I'd like those baby-looking creatures to be in my remake. Those things are freaky. But some group would probably protest against it and stuff. I think my remake of Doom could break the video game movie curse. I haven't really sat down and started writing it either because I don't know if it would be approved/green lit or anger people to start protesting to have it banned. Maybe that's why they changed things in the 2005 movie so that the demons were a science project gone wrong instead of a portal to Hell being opened.
shareCastle Wolfenstein movie.
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