Shadow2222
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Wow, J&D already in development? Cool (if it turns out good)!
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Sony looking to make films of R&C, J&D, Sly Cooper and more [Update: Sony cover-up?]
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DanielJr82
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There's a Heavenly Sword movie in the works? Very nice. I always thought Heavenly Sword would make a better movie than game, same for Uncharted.
Sexually Aggressive Uncle
Member
Horrible idea, all the way around. Sounds fucking awful.
Do not want.
Do not want.
The Film Financial Services site has now removed all Sony films, including the Heavenly Sword one that we know is real and almost complete
http://www.filmfinancialservices.com/our-films.xml
Original page still available on Google cache
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...J:www.filmfinancialservices.com/our-films.xml
And I still have a screenshot
http://i.imgur.com/oXW7D.png
Looks like someone is trying to coverup/hide things from us... looking at you Sony!
EDIT: Images are still up on their server, just the page that has been changed
http://www.filmfinancialservices.com/images/RatchetandClank.jpg
http://www.filmfinancialservices.com/our-films.xml
Original page still available on Google cache
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...J:www.filmfinancialservices.com/our-films.xml
And I still have a screenshot
http://i.imgur.com/oXW7D.png
Looks like someone is trying to coverup/hide things from us... looking at you Sony!
EDIT: Images are still up on their server, just the page that has been changed
http://www.filmfinancialservices.com/images/RatchetandClank.jpg
TheBioLover
Member
Oh man.........shit could be getting real.
Dun Dun Dun
It is real, they're hidding it now. I'm sure they will use that Nariko is in PSABR to promote the film and vis versa.
I'm supervised Kotaku or someone hasn't picked up on this story yet, I'd love to hear what Sony had to say. Though I'm sure all they would say is 'No comment' or 'We are always looking to expand our brands yadda yadda'
LiquidSolid
Member
I seriously don't understand these kind of comments. Even overlooking that Sony aren't even making these movies, you've heard of Sony Pictures, right? Guess what? They make movies.
Acrylic7
Member
HAhahahaha. Oh Arceus, that was a good laugh.
So you want bad- almost average movies to be made of out beloved franchises?
The only way for this to actually work is by them being done by Pixar or someone close to them in terms of quality. and why would Pixar or anyone else agree to do this? They are already rolling in cash and have no need for something that might work, and could go horrible wrong.
You're not really insinuating that Sony Pictures is incapable of making a good movie, right?
LiquidSolid
Member
Yeah because Sony Pictures have never made a single good movie and Pixar are the only animation studio that've produced good movies. This is a joke, right?
That was great.
Edit: It's even better in HD.
Edit: I'd say imagine a Gravity Daze anime/film (in the comic panel style, not the cell shaded) but then you'd have to imagine Kat with a new voice. But you hear so little of it so I guess it could still work.
Spring-Loaded
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The cutscenes in Heavenly Sword are hilarious. And while I love R&C, I could see how someone could find the gameplay getting long in the tooth. Same with Sly Cooper, judging from how people have lamented the addition of other characters beyond Sly.
I've never seen anyone have problems with the cutscenes/vibe/the characters themselves of these games though. I'd actually enjoy seeing some adventures from these IPs without having to build a game around them. Could give the series breathers until their next game.
I've never seen anyone have problems with the cutscenes/vibe/the characters themselves of these games though. I'd actually enjoy seeing some adventures from these IPs without having to build a game around them. Could give the series breathers until their next game.
Acrylic7
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.... kinda
I don't have faith in their Movie/Animation department to make a Good Ratchet or Jak movie.
well who would you trust your top Video Game franchises with? Someone who isn't Pixar or at their level?
.... kinda
I don't have faith in their Movie/Animation department to make a Good Ratchet or Jak movie.
well who would you trust your top Video Game franchises with? Someone who isn't Pixar or at their level?
Sony Pictures Animation made Monster House,Open Season,Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Arthur Christmas.
it's a very good studio and can handle Ratchet and other.
LiquidSolid
Member
Why would the animation studio matter? The script and director are far more important.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
They'd rather let others make games based on their IPs, like letting Atari make that multiplat Ghostbusters game a few years ago. To add insult to injury the PS3 version was also the worst of the three HD versions.
Sony just fucking sucks at utilizing their own IPs.
Atari actually got that from when Sierra merged with Activision. SCE published it in Europe though, lol.
I don't really mind the movie based games being on a variety of platforms, simply because Sony's aren't the defacto ones the public owns right now.
well movies of games usually change the games origin stories or at least don't follow the entire story, so I think they can take Jak 1 story and remove some of the serious notes from it.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Sony still fucking sucks at utilizing their own IPs
Sony owns the Men in Black IP too IIRC, via their ownership of Columbia. And hey, whaddayaknow, Activision made a multiplat MiB III tie-in game. Fucking Sony.
Acrylic7
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Monster House was eh. I liked it but not something I'm going to see in theaters or pay for.
Open Season was fun, but eh. which is why its 2 sequels are straight to DVD
I liked Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs. Fun movie.
I don't know what Arthur Christmas is
yeah, pretty sure its a team effort.
Anything that started on the the ps2 like Ratchet and Jak, heck no.
maybe Uncharted. I can see that being a movie just to rake in cash. It can backfire though, which is something they probably don't want to risk.
Only think I can actually see myself paying to see in theaters is God Of War. That could be awesome.
Sony still fucking sucks at utilizing their own IPs
Sony owns the Men in Black IP too IIRC, via their ownership of Columbia. And hey, whaddayaknow, Activision made a multiplat MiB III tie-in game. Fucking Sony.
Licensed games have not done as well as they used to this gen. Sentencing them to be exclusive to Sony hardware likely would mean Sony Pictures is SOLed on licensing money since I doubt any third party would be happy to accept that deal. Though, at the very least Sony Pictures based games should launch on all Sony hardware. The latest Spider-Man, and MIB games didn't launch on Vita, and Hotel Transylvania won't launch on any Sony hardware.
Sony still fucking sucks at utilizing their own IPs
Sony owns the Men in Black IP too IIRC, via their ownership of Columbia. And hey, whaddayaknow, Activision made a multiplat MiB III tie-in game. Fucking Sony.
That because Sony Pictures operate separately and independently from SCE.
Sony Pictures have deals with Ubi and Activision on games, and honestly I don't want to see SCE studio wasting their time on MIB or other movie stuff that should be multiplat anyway.
Was pretty cool,will be on blu-ray in November
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
What I'm getting at is that they shouldn't be whoring out their well-known IPs to third parties, but make the games in-house, maybe as smaller projects, and release them exclusively on their own platforms (Spiderman would be the odd one out since Sony only owns the movie rights IIRC, not the video game rights) rather than waste money on dross like Resistance (but that series is basically dead now anyway). Sony is just far too splintered for its own good, with the right hand not knowing what the left is doing, and the brain not knowing what neither hands nor feet are doing. Sometimes I genuinely wonder if the PS1 and PS2 were succesful despite Sony or because of Sony.
haha, mate, mine was a rhetoric question . Those titles will be best suited to the straight to dvd market. Releasing them in theater would be a tragic error
and Arthur Christmas is really, really good. It's made by the Aardman guys, the ones behing Shaun the Sheep and Wallace & Gromit. Get it along with Pirates!
Sony doesn't have the market share to do licensed games only on their platforms and make it work. The market for them has simply collapsed to the point where you need a big userbase to support them. That's besides the fact that I suspect no SCE owned studio would want to make games that have to launch alongside a movie. It's a tact that just doesn't instill quality.
I will agree that the company often doesn't let the right hand to the left. For example, Crackle (an online portal for films and TV shows produced by Sony Pictures) had a fully dedicated app on iOS, Android, and even Xbox 360. The only way to use Crackle on PS3 is through Home ... It has been worse though, Sony Pictures used to actively develop and publish games themselves. It seems once SOE was transfered to SCE they stopped that.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
If Sony were willing to actually spend money on making games on their well-known IPs like Ghostbusters, I see no reason why they couldn't end up with a quality game. It wouldn't even have to release alongside a movie since Ghostbusters 3 is stranded in development Hell anyway. Use their well-known IPs to sell their consoles. Want to play Ghostbusters? Get a PS3/Vita.
As for Crackle, I think you can actually access the service via the PS3 browser by opening the Crackle website. Never tried it myself though, because it most likely wouldn't work in Europe anyway, since Sony doesn't give a shit about adding services for Europe.
I'm unconvinced that someone would buy a PS3/Vita for a Ghostbusters game. I just don't see it worth SCE, nor Sony Pictures' time.
And yeah, Crackle's only available in North America, Australia, and the UK.
LiquidSolid
Member
When it comes to the animation quality, sure, but the actual movie itself? No. Cars 2 didn't suck because Pixar sucks (or Lasseter for that matter, it was the script).
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
I'd buy a PS3 for Ghostbusters (if I didn't already own a PS3)
But first I want a Ghostbusters 3. And Gremlins 3. And Lost Boys 4. Warner, why aren't you making Gremlins 3 and Lost Boys 4?
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
The third one was OKish, but Lost Boys 2.. yeeshh. The original is still the best of the bunch, obviously.
pieatorium
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Theres a Lost Boys 2 and 3?
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Yeah, DTV sequels. There were rumours a few years ago that Warner were considering DTV sequels for Gremlins and Goonies too, but obviously nothing happened.
Because the third one was decent and I wouldn't mind a sequel since the ending teased a fight between vampires and werewolves.
Acrylic7
Member
what the fuck?
so I can hire the guys that did the writing for The Incredibles and Finding Nemo, and then hire a animation team at my community college and get a great movie out of it.
HIGHLY unlikely.
HIGHLY
The movie itself is a joint effort. Period.