As stated in the title, what video game series do you think could go the distance and break the "Video Game movies SUCK" curse?
Further, did Uwe Boll tarnish the genre too much for it to be salvaged??
Prince of Persia: the Sand of Time. They just messed up the first time.
shareNope, computer game are narratives too long to fit into a 2 hour screenplay or their structure is nonlinear which is incompatible with a screenplay. If you try to do an original screenplay set in the game universe, the elements of it might be too complicated or confusing for general audiences.
sharemaybe Tomb Rider with Alicia Vikander
shareIt CAN be done, but studios don't want to hire good directors/writers to do it. This film film had a decent director, but had bad writers. You need a good director AND writers in order to make a decent adaptation.
shareYou can count the lego movie.
shareThere have been several video games franchises which have been adapted into film with good reception. Only thing is that many have either been animated or straight to video (or both). Street Fighter II The Animated Movie (as well the the recent Assassins Fist), Dead Space Downfall, Forward Unto Dawn, Batman: Assault on Arkham, etc. are to name a few.
The real question here is if so many of these video game films can be successfully accomplished on smaller scale mediums, why is it so hard for Hollywood with it's multi-million dollar production budgets to do the same?
Their are some that are compact enough to do in a movie, But I think they need the right director. They should give the last of us to Jon Favreau.