Dead Island

Richard Dower

Lads, this is a stunning trailer!....moving and horrific!
The reverse Memento style, the sombre music...more the fact this is a little girl

Reverse clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-U0g8GNzkA

It's being picked up as a movie: http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/viral-sensation-dead-island-takes-movie-shape/

Kess73

I loved Dead Rising 1 and 2, and also the Left For Dead games, so it is pretty safe to say that I am, chomping, pun intended, at the bit for the release of this on the 360.

BlitzKrieg

Don't expect much


Game to film adaptations rarely work. But a game to film before the game is even finished will be so far from its source material that it can't be considered an adaptation.



So it's just another zombie film in the end and we have had too many of them

Basq

It's an cracking trailer alright.. saw it the other day.

Thought this was good too..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-SQc6LA2E

Not arsed in a film version of it whatsoever though - Romero's Survival Of The Dead anyone?

Myrddin

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

So it's just another zombie film in the end and we have had too many of them

You could say the same about Cyborg films etc, then along came Terminator 2. I'm not saying this bound to be stunning, but you can't tar future releases due to the failures of past ones.

The trailer itself is epic, moving & gripping. But then again, that's what trailers are meant to do Looking forward to this!

Myrddin

Basq wrote: »

Thought this was good too..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-SQc6LA2E

What an over the top melodramatic camera lover. I know where he's coming from, being a Dad myself to an 8 year old boy, but going on like that is stupid, in a way only Americans find funny.

Basq

EnterNow wrote: »

What an over the top melodramatic camera lover. I know where he's coming from, being a Dad myself to an 8 year old boy, but going on like that is stupid, in a way only Americans find funny.

I think that's the point though.. he's getting ridiculously upset about something so daft!

Myrddin

Basq wrote: »

I think that's the point though.. he's getting ridiculously upset about something so daft!

EnterNow wrote: »

What an over the top melodramatic camera lover. I know where he's coming from, being a Dad myself to an 8 year old boy, but going on like that is stupid, in a way only Americans find funny.

And that was mine

So they're hoping to base a movie around the trailer for a game that could still turn out to be absolutely rubbish?

Richard Dower

It's garnering lots of hype, praise and controversy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/feb/17/dead-island-trailer-controversial

Richard, there's already a thread in the Games forum, which discusses the trailer for this computer game.

johnny_ultimate

Yup, this is gamer talk. A fine trailer, but nowt to do with film!