RipperGrim
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Neil Druckmann: The Last of Us movie has 'kind of entered development hell'
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Zack Zavage
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Did you see Hard Candy? That movie is about 10 years old and Ellen still looks almost exactly the same as then. I can't think of any better role for Ellie.
Hmm I hope you're right but at the moment I see AC being and performing akin to Prince Of Persia
kraspkibble
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i don't want Ellen Page to play her. she's just too old now. Maisie Williams is better but she's almost 19 now. Ellie is 13/14.
i think a movie would be cool but if they can't work it out then no big loss. we still have the game.
i think a movie would be cool but if they can't work it out then no big loss. we still have the game.
Zack Zavage
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I think The Road would be much more comparable here.
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wild wild rice
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Well, Coen Brothers and Cormac McCarthy are on the next level. I just can't imagine a movie based off a video game, even a really good one like TLoU, would even be allowed to exist without it being more mainstream and Hollywood friendly, i.e., much dumber and more in your face than No Country for Old Men.
GribbleGrunger
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'Kind of development hell.'
means
'Until they take a film based on my game seriously, they can fook right off with those half assed scripts.'
means
'Until they take a film based on my game seriously, they can fook right off with those half assed scripts.'
Acquiescence
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Let it stay there.
Yep.
The Last of Us movie is not a game though, and thus not relevant here. Take it to off topic or something.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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If TLOU was a game in which the entire game was all cutscenes with just one QTE or something at the end, and it was still as successful as TLOU was, they would still make a movie based on it. It makes no difference what the game was or what it was about, it's just that a lot of people know about it and there's a chance to make more money off of the brand. It's a joke that anyone working on this has any interest in actually creating something worthwhile.
I can see why people wouldn't want a movie of the last of us - no need for it
but... "hopefully after AC bombs.." dude what if the AC film is actually good? give it a chance...
Manu Bennett is the perfect Joel.
He has the looks, the voice, the body and is cool as hell. He is perfect.
He has the looks, the voice, the body and is cool as hell. He is perfect.
The game is a game. And nothing else.
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I don't agree that it's the best that the generation has to offer but it has achieved peak storytelling in its medium. Adapting to the big screen would offer it nothing but a larger audience, preventing people from experiencing it in the way it was initially made.
It's an interesting story. So it could be a nice experience for people who don't play games but like (horror) movies. And people who already played the game could be interested (like me).
Doomshroom
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ND we dont want the movie.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Nothing about the story is fresh or surprising other than how well it was done with a video game. It would probably work fine as a TV series, as the game kind of uses the beats of a The Walking Dead type show.
iNvid02
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yeah the fact that it was accomplished within a game is what makes it special
excellent movie but the last 30min of the movie were terrible...
Hibiki Kurosawa
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... But it's based off a game, hence why it is relevant here.
spookyfish
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Probably where it belongs, in all honesty.
Prototype Viktor
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Deadpool took about 8 years to come out so not really
Needed? Interesting choice of words. In what way would any movie be necessary?
I think fans of the game want to share this story and these characters with their loved ones who don't game. A movie is the best way to do that. So, if we want this story to reach a far bigger audience than just PlayStation gamers, it needs a movie.
So, I guess the movie is needed.
Mr. Nice_Guy
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I really don't understand why they would ever want to make this a movie. As others have said it already is a movie but better. It's not like taking something like Warcraft and making it into a movie.
Triggerhappytel
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That's fine. I don't really think anyone would really care too much. Just leave Druckmann alone Sony and let him concentrate on making games.
Tal Shiar Agent
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Video games don't need to be made into movies to be legitimized or be "real art". I don't see the appeal of video game movies at all.
This, can we have a movie about how it all started with other people? And it ends with explosion that happens outside Joels house in the beginning of the game.
Pilgrimzero
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On one hand is have liked to see a live version of it.
On the other hand, Hollywood would probably shit all over it as they tend to do with adaptions. Especially video game based projects.
On the other hand, Hollywood would probably shit all over it as they tend to do with adaptions. Especially video game based projects.
keltickennedy
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Sounds like Hollywood. I'm still waiting on that Splinter Cell movie.....lol.
Yeah... it's honestly been done before (or similar enough stories) with all the other zombie media too.
I think Uncharted has more potential as a film (even if that is very derivative of Indiana Jones).
I'm surprised no one had mentioned David cage yet?
I second the opinion that the best medium for those stories are best left to gaming rather than movies. But then again, who knows, the tomb raider movie did wonders for the franchise and Jolie so perhaps this is another way to keep Nathan in the mind of people who don't know about him.
Question though, are they going to make uncharted a family friendly modern Indian Jones type or... With regards the last of us, I think the walking dead, the road already done those which also inspired the game.
I second the opinion that the best medium for those stories are best left to gaming rather than movies. But then again, who knows, the tomb raider movie did wonders for the franchise and Jolie so perhaps this is another way to keep Nathan in the mind of people who don't know about him.
Question though, are they going to make uncharted a family friendly modern Indian Jones type or... With regards the last of us, I think the walking dead, the road already done those which also inspired the game.
RoadHazard
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Good that they're not letting anything happen until it's JUST RIGHT. Which may never happen. And that's ok.
CMojicaAce
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Make it a TV show instead, focusing on Joel and his brother over the course of the first 20 years.
That's pretty short for beyond development hell...pretty normal.
For example, a new Mortal Kombat movie has been in the works since early 2000 and set to start filming since then as a sequel. Then put back, then cancelled, then changed studios, then new writer, then new director. Now the latest is that is a reboot with James Wan (Saw, Conjuring, Furious 7) producing.
16 years. XD
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Now that would work.
The Artisan
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andrew lincoln for joel
The Artisan
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Didnt Ridley Scott announce a Monopoly movie a few years ago or was I just high?
Admittedly not video games but I still thought it fucking weird
I'm not upset about this at all. I thought the whole movie idea was pretty suspect when they already nailed the characters in the game.
No need for a movie adaption. Especially when the story was designed to have the characters grow closer and more attached over your hours of playtime. I just don't see how it would have worked well as a movie.
No need for a movie adaption. Especially when the story was designed to have the characters grow closer and more attached over your hours of playtime. I just don't see how it would have worked well as a movie.
Smokey_Run
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No, it means studios don't want to spend the money to make it properly. Until a video game movie hits critically and commercially, all of these projects will continue to sit on the shelf.
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