Tiago Rodrigues
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Uncharted is currently less than $4M from becoming the most successful videogame to movie adaptation ever at the domestic box office, surpassing the first Sonic.
Sonic 2 is also coming and fast which means in a few weeks, both Uncharted and Sonic 2 will be the 2 biggest videogame to movie adaptations ever at the domestic BO. Both movies released less than 2 months apart from each other.
There's also some other bigger news in my opinion, which is the fact both Uncharted and Sonic 2 are now the 2 biggest hollywood movies of the year so far, only bested by The Batman.
The results for Uncharted specially are nothing short of phenomenal. The movie doing over 3x its opening weekend at the domestic BO is something no one expected, specially with The Batman debuting 2 weeks after...
I think we're not talking about this nearly enough but there's definitely a shift happening in how Hollywood looks at videogame franchises...at least everyone seems to be on the lookout for IPs to adapt right now. Every other week we hear about something new in the works.
With Halo doing great at Paramount +, The Witcher renewed for a season 3, The Last of Us TV show coming to HBO (and with a huge budget apparently), Ghost of Tsushima movie being written as we speak, a Twisted Metal TV show, a God of War show coming to Amazon Prime, Jak & Daxter movie in talks, Mario movie coming, etc...is Hollywood turning to videogames and betting in them more than ever?
Is there a videogame IP you'd like to see as a movie or TV show?