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Circinus said:
The Uncharted director (Seth Gordon) apparently left the project acutally. The new Sony Pictures boss (Tom Rothman) wanted to take the film in another lower-budget direction apparently, while under ex-Sony Pictures boss Amy Pascal it was envisioned as a big-budget tentpole action-adventure movie in the vein of Indiana Jones.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/24/uncharted-movie-loses-director-seth-gordon
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So it will most likely get shelved and never talked about again, unless they want to re-start it fresh off the heels of uncharted 4.
 
Serpens007 said:
This is going to be terrible. Games don't translate well into movies.
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It depends on the creative direction I guess.

I think it's totally possible to make good films based on video games that have an expansive universe and a deep lore.

Good video game films and bad ones are possible. Just like with regular films I think.

I mean, what I'm saying here is that with 'bad video game films' the source material is usually not the problem, but rather the film itself.

What we're also seeing now is that, unlike with past video game movies, is that the original video game developers are also still involved with the film. For example, Ratchet & Clank is being overseen by Insomniac Games and SCE and is being written by the same writer of the games. Blizzard is strongly involved in the Warcraft film and is co-producing the film. Ubisoft founded its own film production division to make sure that they still have power over the creative direction of their video game film adaptations.


Also, I think the Ratchet & Clank, Warcraft, Assassin's Creed film are likely going to be decent at the very least, due to the talent involved.
 
Is the splinter cell movie still alive in any form? The last I remember seeing it was a teaser on the Splinter Cell 2 disk.
 
AlexMeloche said:
.... a Cut The Rope movie, really?
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Cut The Rope could be adorable if done well, the little shorts were always very cute and well done. Angry Birds could have been great if they had the style of the little promo cartoons too. What they went with is...baffling.

Not sure how you stretch either into a movie, but they have the animation/look/charm down.
 
Circinus said:
Sonic the Hedgehog

In pre-production. Will be a mix of CGI animation with real-world, live-action locations.

Director: /
Writers: Evan Susser, Van Robichaux
Starring: /

Production company: Original Film, Marza Animation Planet, Columbia Pictures
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
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Not sure whether to lol, cry, or throw up.
 
Circinus said:
It depends on the creative direction I guess.

I think it's totally possible to make good films based on video games that have an expansive universe and a deep lore.

Good video game films and bad ones are possible. Just like with regular films I think.

I mean, what I'm saying here is that with 'bad video game films' the source material is usually not the problem, but rather the film itself.

What we're also seeing now is that, unlike with past video game movies, is that the original video game developers are also still involved with the film. For example, Ratchet & Clank is being overseen by Insomniac Games and SCE and is being written by the same writer of the games. Blizzard is strongly involved in the Warcraft film and is co-producing the film. Ubisoft founded its own film production division to make sure that they still have power over the creative direction of their video game film adaptations.


Also, I think the Ratchet & Clank, Warcraft, Assassin's Creed film are likely going to be decent at the very least, due to the talent involved.
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Yeah, but when you transfer a game into a movie you're actually taking something from it rather than adding. You're taking the interactivity from the media, and not giving anything on return.

Well, in any case, we may see something good, or at least decent, but I'm rather pesimistic here. Even something like The Last of Us I think won't translate well, the plot and journey is a little on the cliché side, and I don't think we can see a movie as unique as the game.
 
I'd rather play the games than see them in movie form, especially with the increasing quality of storytelling in games over the past few years.
 
Circinus said:
It depends on the creative direction I guess.

I think it's totally possible to make good films based on video games that have an expansive universe and a deep lore.

Good video game films and bad ones are possible. Just like with regular films I think.

I mean, what I'm saying here is that with 'bad video game films' the source material is usually not the problem, but rather the film itself.
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I was basically about to post this.
 
I like WoW cause of Travis Fimmel, that has hope.

But i feel like Assassin's Creed might/will be actually really good cause of Fassbender and Marion, all the last few movies that I've seen them in (excluding TDK Rises) - they have been really good in
 
Couple movie seems plausible since we already have movie similar to them, but I am skeptical about few of them

Five Nights at Freddy's - another generic(?) horror movie with killer dolls/costume
Temple Run - indiana jones?
The Sims - errrrr smells like another rom-com movie
Portal - great idea but with a voiceless protagonist will not be well received or hasn't been done before with the exception of Dumbo
Half-Life - yes, keep dreaming

If Dead Rising has that Shuan of the dead vibe, then I will see it
 
Won't watch any of them. Watching a film based on a video game is so regressive for an avid video game player. My time would be better spent actually playing games than watching bad movies. The track record is pretty bad too.
 
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Street Fighter: World Warrior
 
Kinyou said:
Is the splinter cell movie still alive in any form? The last I remember seeing it was a teaser on the Splinter Cell 2 disk.
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I think Tom Hardy is still attached, but Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow) left the project earlier this year, so not really.
 
Ratchet and Clank I have no reason to believe will suck. The story and characters have always been great in the games and this looks like it's just a copy-paste of that.
Druckmann and Screen Gems seems like a sign that The Last of Us could also be good.
I would expect the Warcraft movie to be awful but it's written and directed by the guy behind Moon, one of the best sci-fi films of all time, so...
Assassin's Creed is an idea that would work well for a movie but will probably still suck.
Five Nights at Freddy's will probably be a generic horror film, but that could be good.
The Sims? I have no idea what this movie would even be and that intrigues me. What if it's a romcom where all the character's work with the bizarre, stupid AI they have in the games, and plot twists include the pool suddenly losing the ladder?
The rest are all probably gonna be shit.
 
There's a Mortal Kombat reboot possibly in the works? Hmm, not sure the reboot can be better than the 90's movie, which to this day amazes me how good it was.
 
HalfBaked said:
At least half of these will never see the light of day
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I agree. I think Rampage, Uncharted, Metal Gear, and Sly Cooper will probably never get off the ground. I didn't know we are still getting Resident Evil movies.

I think that Ratchet and Warcraft have the best chances of being good.
 
Blasian Persuasion said:
I agree. I think Rampage, Uncharted, Metal Gear, and Sly Cooper will probably never get off the ground. I didn't know we are still getting Resident Evil movies.

I think that Ratchet and Warcraft have the best chances of being good.
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Sly Cooper is definitely happening, I'm pretty sure it's already in production.


The others are definitely not guaranteed to be going off the ground.


And we're still getting Resident Evil movies because they're quite profitable. :)
 
Glad I didn't see Uwe Boll on there. Maybe there is a little hope for a few of these .Seriously hope the Warcraft movie is amazing.
 
Script for Tomb Raider film reboot is reportedly complete, they might be fast-tracking the project and looking for a female director.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/30/rumor-female-director-sought-for-tomb-raider-reboot

Omega Kirby said:
A freaking tetris movie???! Wat...
How?
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Yep. Will be sci-fi-themed apparently.

http://screenrant.com/tetris-video-game-movie-details/


A lot of the other films in the list that I posted in other video game films in pre-production might be abandoned by now.
 
Whoa all those movies!?!?!? What the hell?

At least i'm happy to see dante's inferno, maybe we'll get a sequel thanks to that.
 
I believe the AC movie will be accurate to the source material.

It will suck and make people want their money back.
 
If one or at few games make bank, then I think many more games will become films, because there will be proof that games make films that sell tickets. Maybe if Assassin's creed is good, then more games will follow.
 
Discotheque said:
that might not be the case. warcraft and especially assassin's creed has some real talent behind it tbh.

assassin's creed's got fassbender/cotillard leading the film and the director of this

i'm amazed ubisoft managed to get so much talent on board.
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I was sort of joking, actually a couple might be good.
I'm betting everything on Warcraft, i think that one won't disappoint.
And TBH i pretty much despise Assassin's Creed, so i don't care that much about that one (even if, i agree with you, the names involved in it are surely important).

Anyway, i personally can't wait for Wreck It Ralph 2, that one will definitely be great.
Oh, and i hope with all my heart that Shadow of the Colossus stays DEAD.
 
I trust Fassbender (spelling I know). Everything else I expect to be pretty bad.
A Sonic movie? Jesus, the fan art will last for eternity.
 
The Idolmaster Movie: Beyond the Brilliant Future! is still the best videogame related movie and I doubt that's going to change any time soon.
 
Nolan North on the Uncharted movie:

http://me.ign.com/en/movies/108457/news/nolan-north-uneasy-about-mark-wahlberg-playing-nat

IGN Middle East said:
“I don’t know when they are going to get to it. That movie has been on ice for almost ten years. And they kept switching writers…apparently they have a good script. A couple of [scripts] before them – which I wasn’t supposed to read but somebody got me to read them – and they weren’t anything like [Uncharted]. I mean there were versions of that script that wasn’t Uncharted. It was basically like a heist movie and they said we will just ride the Uncharted name.”

“I think it’s hard [to make an Uncharted movie] because with the technology we have, we have already made four movies. But I think they are going to be true to the first game,” he added.

As for Mark Wahlberg reportedly taking on the role of Nathan Drake, North said he hoped someone younger would be cast for the role. “Mark Wahlberg is about my age, so it’s like ‘eh’. I don’t know how many sequels you are going to get. Are you not planning for sequels? That means you are not planning it very good that means the script is kinda weak. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”


“They hired [Amy Hennig] as a “consultant”, a non-paid consultant. She is a better writer than that but she doesn’t have that Hollywood name. It’s the reason I can never play Nathan Drake. Because you put Mark Wahlberg in a movie, they have numbers on how many tickets he will sell in Europe. That’s what they do, they get their numbers for overseas, they know they are getting their investment back overseas. So now, everything domestic is all profit. It’s all money, it’s all it is. And I have talked with executives and they were like ‘we know you can do it’, but you know…”
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I'm willing to bet most of these don't come out or suck, but there's no harm in trying to be optimistic I guess. Especially for TLOU which had Druckmann writing it.
 
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