Video games you would like to see as films ?

ricero

My choice would be red dead redemption amazing game but the storyline is amazing and it would make a great gritty western with the right cast and director.

what would you like to see ?

nyarlothothep

Quake, you could work in some bastardized HP Lovecraft storyline to give it more of a plot, they'd also have to keep the purple sky and the huge medieval forts. It would be surreal and scary. That or just remake Doom, except this time keep the satanic plot rather than messing it up with hidden genetic material nonsense.

BigBenRoeth

None of my favourite games anyway.
Video game movies have a near perfect track record of being absoloute scutter.
Video games really dont lend themselves well to being remade as movies in my opinion,i think its best if they just left video games alone.

Magic Eight Ball

I'd have to go with 'Metal Gear Solid'.
I was also gonna say 'Manhunt' but that pretty much ripped off 'The Warriors'.

rcdk1

Heavy Rain is only one that might work but of course there wouldn't be much point in going to see it if you've played the game and know the story.

ricero

BigBenRoeth wrote: »

None of my favourite games anyway.
Video game movies have a near perfect track record of being absoloute scutter.
Video games really dont lend themselves well to being remade as movies in my opinion,i think its best if they just left video games alone.

its true what your saying but most video games turned into films have been let down by dreadful scripts and poor casting. i really think if a production company could but as much effort as they would say a blockbuster or a oscar worthy film into a videogame it could work.

i would also love to see resistance : fall of man being turned into a film starring tom hardy or statham

Otacon

It appears that David O'Russell is messing up the Uncharted movie by casting Markie Mark and the Goodfellas... so TBH if they take it away from him and give it to someone competent, then I would be happy enough.

I also really liked the look of the Halo movie up until it was cancelled. The success of District 9 showed that it was a mistake not to trust Neil Blomkamp with it.

Duggy747

Left 4 Dead :pac: though it would be pure trash.

Half-Life has strong mythology and characters to it, would probably be one of the better treated movie crossovers if it happens. Though the nerds would have to get over Gordan Freeman speaking

Halo could've been interesting but we got to see the weapon designs and styles that could've been used in District 9

ricero

Otacon wrote: »

It appears that David O'Russell is messing up the Uncharted movie by casting Markie Mark and the Goodfellas... so TBH if they take it away from him and give it to someone competent, then I would be happy enough.

I also really liked the look of the Halo movie up until it was cancelled. The success of District 9 showed that it was a mistake not to trust Neil Blomkamp with it.

il be very disappointed if they mess up the uncharted film this could easily be this generations new indiana jones franchise

Shryke

There is a fundamental problem with that question. If someone suggests a game its because it's going to be a very good game. Plot, gameplay, voice acting, design, controls, music, and other elements all meshed together to give you a great experience.
The best you could possibly get would be an hour and a half of butchered story, a handful of quotes thrown in and a complete lack of immersion or real understanding from the film makers (usually), with a dash of quasi-similar set pieces that don't hold a candle to the thrill of playing ****ing through them in the game, a cast that inevitably all look like they just don't know what their doing and in the end the film manages both to disappoint actual fans and not even remotely impress new comers.

Anyone who might want a MGS film, seriously, just watch Escape From New York/LA. Hideo Kojima pretty much ripped them off. He didn't even change the name of the character.

Anyway, in summation, no video game movies please!

pwd

Fallout

niallon

ricero wrote: »

its true what your saying but most video games turned into films have been let down by dreadful scripts and poor casting. i really think if a production company could but as much effort as they would say a blockbuster or a oscar worthy film into a videogame it could work.

They did. At least four Oscar nominations and one win amongst the cast, as well as 5 Golden Globe nominations and one win amongst the cast, coupled with a $200,000,000 bidget and it was still disappointing (though I'd argue not nearly as disappointing as it could have been or was made out to be).

The problem with video game adaptations isn't cast or budget or quality, it is as you said, scripts. The type of people making these movies either have too much or too little respect for the original plot. What needs to be done is for someone to realise that they have the foundations, even storyboards FFS, of a great film presented to them but what works for a video game does not necessarily translate to screen as well. That being said, change too much and you are just Frankensteining a film out of loose plot points.

Video games should be taken in the same way as novels are to the big screen, even the greatest novel(la) adaptation of all time, The Shawshank Redemption, has changes from the original story in it, but it retains the essence of the original work.

ricero

Shryke wrote: »

There is a fundamental problem with that question. If someone suggests a game its because it's going to be a very good game. Plot, gameplay, voice acting, design, controls, music, and other elements all meshed together to give you a great experience.
The best you could possibly get would be an hour and a half of butchered story, a handful of quotes thrown in and a complete lack of immersion or real understanding from the film makers (usually), with a dash of quasi-similar set pieces that don't hold a candle to the thrill of playing ****ing through them in the game, a cast that inevitably all look like they just don't know what their doing and in the end the film manages both to disappoint actual fans and not even remotely impress new comers.

Anyone who might want a MGS film, seriously, just watch Escape From New York/LA. Hideo Kojima pretty much ripped them off. He didn't even change the name of the character.

Anyway, in summation, no video game movies please!

its true what your saying especially cutting the story into a hour and half but maybe even setting the film in the games world or maybe even a television series would work quite well IMO

Richard Dower

Command & Conquer...with a $500 million budget.

Morlar

Crysis with a budget bigger than our national debt (Yeah I know what they did to far cry).

Z- steel soldiers would make a fantastic action movie.

Killzone - 18.R version. Manhunt. Call of Duty -Nazi zombie levels movie. I'd go along with making doom properly this time. Also Quake if done correctly. HL or HL2.

Ridley

Assuming they'd turn out good:

Anything spinning off from the Oddworld franchise. Which I think at this point should have been TV series, comics, novels etc. by now.

Metal Gear Solid even if it is largely Escape from New York/LA and a movie in itself anyway.

TanG411

I think Infamous could work well. Also Metal Gear Solid as mentioned earlier.

EDIT: Looks like they are creating MGS as a movie. It says Hideo Kojima is the writer.

[url]Http://imdb.com/title/tt0808372/[/url]

ziedth

I'd love to see Hitman redone.

Remains one of the only films I turned off in horror. Anybody who has a love of the game will know how unbelievably out of character the Sword fight scene is.

It's hard to pick anymore as they would be hard to tie into 2 hours.

Duggy747

Duggy747 wrote: »

Left 4 Dead :pac: though it would be pure trash.

The Horde is pretty much a Left 4 Dead film, a group of survivors tooled up against an army of the undead. It's one of last years most entertaiing films and well worth your time, though make sure you watch the original French dub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFdRz41om4s

e_e

Wouldn't mind seeing a Bioshock film.

Personally I think somebody like Guillermo Del Toro or Neil Bomkamp could pull it off. The art design, soundtrack, story and overall atmosphere is something else in that game.

irish_stevo815

e_e wrote: »

Wouldn't mind seeing a Bioshock film.

Personally I think somebody like Guillermo Del Toro or Neil Bomkamp could pull it off. The art design, soundtrack, story and overall atmosphere is something else in that game.

Yeah Bioshock would be cool. Wasn't Wentworth Millar linked to star in a Bishock movie at one time?

vinchick

irish_stevo815 wrote: »

Yeah Bioshock would be cool. Wasn't Wentworth Millar linked to star in a Bishock movie at one time?

I think Bioshock is planned for the future.

Here is the link to the start of the IMDb page which has 2013 down:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230526/

But it seems to be rumours for most of the information.

niallon

vinchick wrote: »

I think Bioshock is planned for the future.

Here is the link to the start of the IMDb page which has 2013 down:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230526/

But it seems to be rumours for most of the information.

Gore Verbinski seems to be mad to get it made but the water side of things appears to be getting in the way as it is a logictical nightmare in terms of making a film. Pity though.

ebbsy

Impossible Mission.

Goldstein

Richard Dower wrote: »

Command & Conquer...with a $500 million budget.

Good call.
Imagine a Red Alert game, from the Westwood Studios era. The Soviets in all their crazy technological glory. Kirovs & Apocalypse tanks, the whole hog. Epic story line.

That would be class...In the right hands of course.

I'd stay away from calling it the exact same name as the game. Go with a name that sounds like the name of an expansion pack.

vinchick

niallon wrote: »

Gore Verbinski seems to be mad to get it made but the water side of things appears to be getting in the way as it is a logictical nightmare in terms of making a film. Pity though.

I am half afraid of it being made anyway in case it's rubbish. But what a story!

Retr0gamer

Silent Hill should have been amazing but they ****ed that up royally with a script by some one that didn't understand what the game was about.

krudler

Katamari Damacy

directed by Takeshi Kitano.

could be the greatest movie ever made.

krudler

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Silent Hill should have been amazing but they ****ed that up royally with a script by some one that didn't understand what the game was about.

It looked great, the atmosphere was pretty decent, just the script didnt work, the downfall of all video game movies.

Bioshock is the one that if its made, pray its done right. Gore Verbinski is a fantastic choice and hes not unfamiliar with working with massive budgets. Done right it could be incredible. The underwater 60's retro steampunk style stuff would be class to see on a big screen.

The main problem with video game movies is they're terribly written and aimed at 13 year olds who just want to see crap blow up. Given the right director and a proper take on it something like Modern Warfare 1 would make an epic movie, someone like Paul Greengrass could do wonders with it, global setting, some great visuals, decent story, big budget. hell you could have half the voice cast in it since most of them are actual actors anyway.

DazMarz

Max Payne was always one of my favourite video games... the cool storyline of government conspiracies, the atmospheric snow-covered environments, the pure badass central character, the guns... lots and lots of guns.

The film messed around too much with the conspiracy storyline and wasn't helped by the fact that (as much as it's a fave game of mine) Max Payne is pretty much a whack-a-mole game that involves killing everything that moves (you can even shoot rats in the streets, for f-sake) and that simply going around killing people isn't a great movie plot.

BigBenRoeth

I've been thinking about this a bit,and if I reckon the original Metal Gear would make a decent movie provided the project had decent writers and a director who knows what he's on about

Viktor.

First one that came to mind for me is Mass Effect.

Then I found out it's already in the works :pac:

http://ie.movies.ign.com/articles/109/1092495p1.html

At least they are involving some of the Bioware team in production. I just hope to God they have sense and do it properly. If it turns out like most other video game adaptations I'll be very

Galvasean

DazMarz wrote: »

Max Payne was always one of my favourite video games... the cool storyline of government conspiracies, the atmospheric snow-covered environments, the pure badass central character, the guns... lots and lots of guns.

The film messed around too much with the conspiracy storyline and wasn't helped by the fact that (as much as it's a fave game of mine) Max Payne is pretty much a whack-a-mole game that involves killing everything that moves (you can even shoot rats in the streets, for f-sake) and that simply going around killing people isn't a great movie plot.

A friend of mine summed up the Max Payne film with this quote: "Do you remember the part in the game where you walked around for an hour without killing anybody? No, because that would be boring."

Part of me wants to see a God of War film, but I just know they'd make it PG13 and rubbish.

An Bradán Feasa

Monkey Island.


That is all.

TheIrishGrover

Somebody mentioned Half-Life. This is would NOT like to see as a movie (Esp HL2). There is too much story and mythos to be summed up in 2 hours.

Now an HBO miniseries on the other hand........

Reganio 2

The 1st one that came to my mind was Broken Sword, given all the right tools and all that business that could be amazing. Great story line and interesting characters. Great start as well as its important to draw people in from the start

krudler

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Somebody mentioned Half-Life. This is would NOT like to see as a movie (Esp HL2). There is too much story and mythos to be summed up in 2 hours.

Now an HBO miniseries on the other hand........

Damien Lewis is Gordon Freeman, you know it makes sense

Phony Scott

An Bradán Feasa wrote: »

Monkey Island.

i'll second that with nearly any adventure game Lucasarts released during the ninties though my favourite would have to be Day of the Tentacle (no, I didn't say testicle!)

I'd quite like to see a reboot of Resident Evil, the games were so much better than the films. Red Dead Redemption would probably be the only recent game that I'd like to see, but more as a television show than a film.

johnny_ultimate

Having been disappointed oh so many times at this point, I am perfectly happy leaving video games and films as two entirely separate mediums that merely inspire each other in some regards as opposed to any sort of direct influence. It works both ways: there is only a tiny amount of good games based on films, and a much smaller amount of good films based on games (we'll give Street Fighter II anime a bit of credit, even if it does suffer from trying to fit every character who had ever street fought at that point into a cameo).

The major problem is that, in the vast majority of cases, games are pretty ****ty at storytelling, and this coming from someone who will constantly defend the right of computer games to be taken seriously. But it tends to be the gameplay as opposed to the writing that sucks you into games. Many classics like the Mario series excel at being games, which is why attempts to adapt the (admittedly iconic) characters into non-interactive mediums has met with failure. In other cases, the storytelling may be significant but is a poor shadow of cinema. Look at Metal Gear Solid: interesting ideas and characters, but weighed down by Hideo Kojima's dreadful direction, unable to edit a scene and creating unwieldy, passive cutscenes in the process. The franchise entries that focus more on gameplay - MGS3, the recent Peace Walker - hence emerge more favourably than the non-interactive overkill of Metal Gear Solid 4.

There are, however, good stories in games. The vast majority of those who manage to have a confident narrative achieve it through utilising the interactivity. Some examples. In Half-Life 2, the characters addressing a silent Freeman means you can make a far more personal connection, and the ending of the second Episode is crushing because for a beautifully directed moment you lose the total interactive control of your character that the series is rightly famed for. Bioshock's (a game with numerous flaws and a cop out third act that nonetheless provides one of the most imaginative settings in gaming history) big themes and twists are so compelling because they question the very way you have played the game, and all games you've played before it at that,

delightfully having the big twist reveal that you are merely a puppet following orders

. Shadow of the Colossus - another gaming masterpiece Hollywood has long threatened to adapt - is emotionally affecting because you are traversing a lonely, barren landscape and you are attacking wonderful, majestic creatures for entirely selfish reasons. These are just three commonly cited examples of games people would like to see adapted to the big screen, and IMO having these three games in film form could not possibly come close to the way they utilise gaming foundations to suck the player into their respective worlds. Some stuff would carry over - the dystopian majesty of Rapture, for example, would almost certainly be as hypnotic and surreal in a cinema as it is on Xbox 360 - but vitally important things would be almost certainly lost in translation. Mass Effect, which is also frequently cited as a filmable game, would have to lose the player driven decisions that made last year's sequel a stunning advancement in interactive storytelling. All you'd be left with is the interesting world Bioware have created, which could possibly create a decent film but losing the one aspect that has gotten ME such high esteem.

I'm sure there is a good director out there who understands the separate appeal of games and films, and perhaps someday he or she will adapt a game with the respect and intelligence the adaptation deserves. There is almost certainly a number of games that could be translated, it is just a very difficult thing to do. But until that one film that thoughtfully and respectfully adapts a game, embracing the source material while also understanding the very different nature of film, I'm going to remain deeply opposed to my two favourite mediums crossing over. Because as so many Uwe Boll and Resident Evil films have proven, there aren't many people in Hollywood who understand exactly how or why it is that we play games.

Yeah, I'll stop now :pac: And don't you ****ing dare to adapt our beloved Pacman, Hollywood!

Mr Trade In

Would love to see a CGI Kingdom Hearts Movie, Shenmue movie would be cool. Metroid and Castlevania too.

BigBenRoeth

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Having been disappointed oh so many times at this point, I am perfectly happy leaving video games and films as two entirely separate mediums that merely inspire each other in some regards as opposed to any sort of direct influence. It works both ways: there is only a tiny amount of good games based on films, and a much smaller amount of good films based on games (we'll give Street Fighter II anime a bit of credit, even if it does suffer from trying to fit every character who had ever street fought at that point into a cameo).

The major problem is that, in the vast majority of cases, games are pretty ****ty at storytelling, and this coming from someone who will constantly defend the right of computer games to be taken seriously. But it tends to be the gameplay as opposed to the writing that sucks you into games. Many classics like the Mario series excel at being games, which is why attempts to adapt the (admittedly iconic) characters into non-interactive mediums has met with failure. In other cases, the storytelling may be significant but is a poor shadow of cinema. Look at Metal Gear Solid: interesting ideas and characters, but weighed down by Hideo Kojima's dreadful direction, unable to edit a scene and creating unwieldy, passive cutscenes in the process. The franchise entries that focus more on gameplay - MGS3, the recent Peace Walker - hence emerge more favourably than the non-interactive overkill of Metal Gear Solid 4.

There are, however, good stories in games. The vast majority of those who manage to have a confident narrative achieve it through utilising the interactivity. Some examples. In Half-Life 2, the characters addressing a silent Freeman means you can make a far more personal connection, and the ending of the second Episode is crushing because for a beautifully directed moment you lose the total interactive control of your character that the series is rightly famed for. Bioshock's (a game with numerous flaws and a cop out third act that nonetheless provides one of the most imaginative settings in gaming history) big themes and twists are so compelling because they question the very way you have played the game, and all games you've played before it at that,

delightfully having the big twist reveal that you are merely a puppet following orders

. Shadow of the Colossus - another gaming masterpiece Hollywood has long threatened to adapt - is emotionally affecting because you are traversing a lonely, barren landscape and you are attacking wonderful, majestic creatures for entirely selfish reasons. These are just three commonly cited examples of games people would like to see adapted to the big screen, and IMO having these three games in film form could not possibly come close to the way they utilise gaming foundations to suck the player into their respective worlds. Some stuff would carry over - the dystopian majesty of Rapture, for example, would almost certainly be as hypnotic and surreal in a cinema as it is on Xbox 360 - but vitally important things would be almost certainly lost in translation. Mass Effect, which is also frequently cited as a filmable game, would have to lose the player driven decisions that made last year's sequel a stunning advancement in interactive storytelling. All you'd be left with is the interesting world Bioware have created, which could possibly create a decent film but losing the one aspect that has gotten ME such high esteem.

I'm sure there is a good director out there who understands the separate appeal of games and films, and perhaps someday he or she will adapt a game with the respect and intelligence the adaptation deserves. There is almost certainly a number of games that could be translated, it is just a very difficult thing to do. But until that one film that thoughtfully and respectfully adapts a game, embracing the source material while also understanding the very different nature of film, I'm going to remain deeply opposed to my two favourite mediums crossing over. Because as so many Uwe Boll and Resident Evil films have proven, there aren't many people in Hollywood who understand exactly how or why it is that we play games.

Yeah, I'll stop now :pac: And don't you ****ing dare to adapt our beloved Pacman, Hollywood!

That was unnecesary

johnny_ultimate

BigBenRoeth wrote: »

That was unnecesary

*shrugs* It's what happens when the Playstation is occupied.

bnt

One word: Lemmings. I imagine Disney could make an animated feature with one or more lemmings rushing around trying to save people. It would be a kind of payback for the way Disney falsified that lemming documentary years ago, the one that led to the popular fallacy of the "suicidal" lemmings.

Ridley

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

And don't you ****ing dare to adapt our beloved Pacman, Hollywood!

The Sims was one of the more weird announcements.

Not that I'm suggesting Pac-Man, unless it was entirely tongue-in-cheek like



but I don't think there shouldn't be any more attempts to adapt certain games altogether, just actual effort to make a good film instead of a cash-in.

Prince of Persia looks like some people actually tried even if the movie was meh.

Oh what might have been if John Woo had done that Metroid movie.

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Shadow Complex would make for an interesting movie come to think of it.

Skerries

have a look through this list and ask yourself which of these you would watch again?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games

Monty Burnz

Has anyone suggested Tetris yet?

Edit: ah, someone has.

The only game to film adaptation which has really been anyway decent is the underappreciated Postal. It manages to retain the games sense of humour, over the top violence and sense of mayhem which made the game so much fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnB6FEGOhq8

Looking at a pile of games on the floor and the only title which stands out as having the makings of a great film is Kane and lynch, shame that the studio seems intent on casting people like Jamie Foxx in when all they need is Ray Liotta and John Malkovich at his craziest.

Jazzy

Doom done properly would rock socks

aside from that, id just like them left alone tbh. if you cant do it properly then dont bother. just leave it alone and try some original ideas.
and ffs, dont just go to a back catalogue of old films and 'reboot' them... Total Recall - im looking at you

jaykhunter

Compiled all the suggestions here : (OP if you wanna copypasta?)

Red Dead Redemption
Quake
Doom (try again)
Metal Gear Solid
Heavy Rain
resistance : fall of man
Uncharted
Halo
Left 4 Dead
Half-Life
Fallout
Command & Conquer
Crysis
Z- steel soldiers
Killzone - 18.R version.
Manhunt.
Call of Duty -Nazi zombie levels
Oddworld
Hitman (try again)
Bioshock
Impossible Mission.
Silent Hill (try again)
Katamari Damacy (lol!)
Mass Effect
God of War
Monkey Island
Broken Sword
Resident Evil (try again, incl RE4)
Kingdom Hearts (CGI)
Shenmue
Lemmings
Shadow Complex
Tetris
GTA
Alan Wake
Dead Space
Metroid

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I added in the last few.
- Grand Theft Auto (IV; I love Nico, he's the most relatable and loveable protagonist from the series imo.)
- Alan Wake (although I imagine it would be a terrible budget movie)
- Dead Space is practically Metroid-Aliens already
- Hmm! Metroid! A new female action hero!
- Dammit, I still want Resident Evil 4 to be made into a movie! Annoyed no end that the best plot/game of the series was glossed over in the movies. And I demand Hunters (massive frogs) :pac:

Ridley

I suggested Shadow Complex not The Sims. Pac-Man has a better plot than Sims.

Resident Evil: Degeneration is a good movie.

namelessguy

Battleship

I kid you not

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(film)