Games you would like to see made into a film

Hurricane-Dean

So what games would you like to see made into films? I mean properly made I know there was a short film made for it but one for the entire Assassins Creed series would be fantastic.

MitchKoobski

The only games that can be realisistically made into games are 8-10 hour games.

The games people think are epic and deverving of a film, are way too rich in plot for any film to do them justice.

I'm surpised nobody has done down the route of TV shows from Games yet.

Hurricane-Dean

You mean games that you finished in that time? I suppose some games that take you longer to complete would be a bit hard to shorten down into a film, but there are some games out there that if carefully and properly written/directed would be great on the big screen.

Another one I think would be god of war.

partyatmygaff

The Metal Gear Solid series in film would be perfect...

Hurricane-Dean

partyatmygaff wrote: »

The Metal Gear Solid series in film would be perfect...

Forgot about that, good one.

Marty McFly

I dont really want any made, anytime they try they just eem to make a balls of it. Can you name one good game to film adaption? The last one I can remember coming out was Max Payne and that was shocking.

Hurricane-Dean

luvbulmers01 wrote: »

I dont really want any made, anytime they try they just eem to make a balls of it. Can you name one good game to film adaption? The last one I can remember coming out was Max Payne and that was shocking.

The 1st resident evil was good, Silent Hill was ok, kept me watching anyway. Mortal Kombat might not have been the best but I enjoyed it Oh and I did enjoy DOOM as well.

abouttobebanned

Bubble bobble.

Haha..nah here are some slightly unorthodox ones....

Syphon Filter. Remember that game?? HEAD SHOT! Superb.

Super Mario Kart. Seriously...this game is immensely popular with the kids...so how about a toy story like animation full length feature? The kids would love it.

ahal

Carmageddon!

Hurricane-Dean

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Bubble bobble.

Haha..nah here are some slightly unorthodox ones....

Syphon Filter. Remember that game?? HEAD SHOT! Superb.

Super Mario Kart. Seriously...this game is immensely popular with the kids...so how about a toy story like animation full length feature? The kids would love it.

That would be brilliant :pac: yea Mario Kart had me hooked so a movie would keep the kids watching

Hurricane-Dean

ahal wrote: »

Carmageddon!

Ah what a game, oh actually the oddworld games would make an interesting movie, a movie with so many restarts :pac:

Mickeroo

HALO, why?

Ok the gameplay hasn't changed at all since the first game but the story just keeps me enthralled every time and the Chief is such an iconic character, I'd love if the keep the score aswell, there's loads of moments in the series that have given me goosebumps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXrYSEOg3Ro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deGwykkr2z8

It's a crying shame Neil Blomkamp didn't get to make his Halo movie, although if that had happened I guess we wouldn't have got District 9. Here's the Halo short films he did make though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKGhoJ1mgQY

krudler

God of War, but done properly, gore aplenty.

Uncharted, but not with Marky Mark as Nate, he has no charisma. either Nathan Fillion or Ryan Reynolds.

Hurricane-Dean

Don't have an xbox but have played halo, it would make a good movie, I would give a shout to Resistance and Killzone

Mister Jingles

LA Noire

Mickeroo

Actually Bioshock has the potential to a be a truly original film too, I've only just started playing the first one, I know Gore Verbinski was meant to make it and it stalled, mght still happen though.

krudler

Mister Jingles wrote: »

LA Noire

already done

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

this clip is more entertaining than that entire yawnfest of a game, LA Snore more like :pac:

bonerm

Monkey Island. It'd be like Pirates of the Caribbean .... only good.

Hurricane-Dean

Mister Jingles wrote: »

LA Noire

I was waiting for that to be mentioned

Kinetic^

partyatmygaff wrote: »

The Metal Gear Solid series in film would be perfect...

They're already more film than games.

johnny_ultimate

For the love of all that is good leave our precious video games alone. Losing interactivity removes the uniqueness of the game. Given that no director thus far has proven themselves capable of translating games to screen I hope Hollywood cuts their losses as only a minority of movie games and game movies have proven to be anything but uncomfortable bedfellows.

Like they've threatened a Shadow of the Collossus film! Garr! Leave it the **** alone!

Birneybau

Tetris....

That or Snake.

johnny_ultimate

Mickeroo wrote: »

Actually Bioshock has the potential to a be a truly original film too, I've only just started playing the first one, I know Gore Verbinski was meant to make it and it stalled, mght still happen though.

Bioshock is one of the few I think they could succeed with, just because Rapture is such an engrossing setting.

But they'd also have to lose all those themes and ideas about the nature of interactivity, which was one of the most interesting elements of the game.

Phony Scott

bonerm wrote: »

Monkey Island. It'd be like Pirates of the Caribbean .... only good.

For me, Tim Schafer is brilliant at creating great storylines and characters, all very funny too and I could easily see a film or cartoon of work like 'The Secret of Monkey Island' but all his games seem to be huge misfires commerically.

I loved 'Brutal Legend,' but it really was a niche game and I suspect any film adaptations would be treated the same. My personal favourite game of his would have to be this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vJioAZ1oIY

Ridley

The Oddworld series should have branched out by now if Oddworld Inhabitants hadn't become disillusioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgMes_8e3AM

The Gibzilla

I loved "Max Payne" as a game, I thought it was fantastic especially the whole bullet time gimmick. It also had some great dialogue in it.
The movie was dreadful though, I was disgusted with it. One of the worst movies I've seen!

Mister Jingles

Hurricane-Dean wrote: »

I was waiting for that to be mentioned

and ?

bnt

Mister Jingles wrote: »

LA Noire

But that's putting the cart before the horse, since the game was inspired by Noir films in the first place, right?

What about Portal? It's quite concise, not epic in scope, and it has a ... twisted sense of humour.

Dman001

After seeing this April Fool hoax trailer for Zelda made by IGN, I firmly believe that the franchise could be made into a decent film. Or maybe even a Mini Series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBCzkz3gHb8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBCzkz3gHb8

johnny_ultimate

bnt wrote: »

What about Portal?

Not in a million years :pac: Portal - and I'll also throw in Half Life and other Valve games for arguments sake - is one of the rare big budget contemporary video games that helps define an artform and has to be a game. The mechanics, the writing, the world, the ideas are ones designed solely for a player - losing immersion in the Aperture Science labs by removing interactivity would be a serious mistake IMO.

There are a handful of games that, with the right talent, good make a relatively acceptable game. Uncharted, for example, has a very cinematic coda and language at times, but I would fear it might just come across as an Indiana Jones clone in film (it already kind of does in game form, but makes up for it by being awesome). It would be adaptable though, as would some well written story based games. But writing in games isn't always up to much TBH, coming across as poorer relatives of their cinematic or literature counterparts. Hence the best games are the ones that embrace their inherent gaminess - your Child of Edens (a more astonishing work of art than anything currently in your local multiplex), Braids, Portals, Half-Lifes, Katamaris, Marios (a case in point - look at the ****ing film they made of that) etc etc... And these are the ones Hollywood shouldn't go near.

Yes, I'm very defensive about games :P

Mister Jingles

Okay here's one, too late now though

James Bond - Everything or Nothing. (with a few script changes of course).

The recent Sci Fi original Red Faction Origins was pretty decent, granted it was made for peanuts but it did leave me hoping for a TV series. Defiently one of the best Sci Fi original films to date and one of the best game to film adaptations.

Ridley

Looking at Wikipedia's [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game_franchises]list of best-selling video game franchises[/url], most have been done, aren't workable, or didn't start in games.

Although a Carmen Sandiego film could be awesome... or like Inspector Gadget. I'll maintain that Red Cliff is Dynasty Warriors: The Movie.

johnny_ultimate

Oh, actually, I lied earlier. There is one game I would like to see turned into a movie: and that would be a full on Street Fighter IV sequel to SFII: The Animated Movie. SFII bears the curious accolade of being the most loyal to the game by featuring large amounts of actual street fighting with the actual characters from the actual game, actually. A new one would be cool, but it only sort of counts since anime isn't as significant a jump as the one to live action.

The Gibzilla

I think the next likely franchise to have a game to movie interpretation might be "Grand Theft Auto". Perhaps a triolgy of inter-linking stories between Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas could work?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the starcraft/broodwar story is cheesy enough to make it as a blockbuster sci fi epic

Ridley

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

SFII bears the curious accolade of being the most loyal to the game by featuring large amounts of actual street fighting with the actual characters from the actual game, actually.

GisforGrenade

Red cliff great film, massive armies without any cgi is one thing China does very well. I would love to see an Assassin's Creed movie but would happily see them dump all that genetic memory rubbish just a straight forward period action film would suffice. Though with Ubisoft launching their own movie production company it could actually happen. Even more so than that a Mass Effect movie because it is so cinematic already and would require minimal tweaking.

Mickeroo

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Oh, actually, I lied earlier. There is one game I would like to see turned into a movie: and that would be a full on Street Fighter IV sequel to SFII: The Animated Movie. SFII bears the curious accolade of being the most loyal to the game by featuring large amounts of actual street fighting with the actual characters from the actual game, actually. A new one would be cool, but it only sort of counts since anime isn't as significant a jump as the one to live action.

I'd forgotten about the animated Street Fighter movie, it was bloody good iirc??

S.M.B.

Jumanji

love that game

Dman001

S.M.B. wrote: »

Jumanji

love that game

That was a film turned into a (board) game, silly child!

krudler

The Gibzilla wrote: »

I think the next likely franchise to have a game to movie interpretation might be "Grand Theft Auto". Perhaps a triolgy of inter-linking stories between Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas could work?

the movie of GTA Vice City already exists, its called Scarface :pac:

Sad Professor

I'd love to see a good Bioshock film. I adore that game. Have played through it 3 times. It would need a really good director to do it justice though, and lets face it, these game adaptations usually get entrusted to hacks.

krudler

Sad Professor wrote: »

I'd love to see a good Bioshock film. I adore that game. Have played through it 3 times. It would need a really good director to do it justice though, and lets face it, these game adaptations usually get entrusted to hacks.

Gore Verbinski was attached at one stage, he's a pretty visual director so it could have been a cool choice. The biggest problem with video game adaptations is studios think gamers=14 year old boys who dont care about plot and just want explosions and boobs.

mjcom4d

Red dead redemption

ricero

mjcom4d wrote: »

Red dead redemption

totally agree it would be a amazing film. i heard rumours recently that they are planning a feature film with brad pitt

Chris Hansen

Ocarina of Time of course!

callaway92

Heavy Rain?

im invisible

Birneybau wrote: »

Tetris....
That or Snake.

how about minesweeper...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

or pokemon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDX1m0Y2Vkg

TheFullDuck

I would nominate Gears of War with an ensemble cast:

Marcus: Dominic Purcell

Cole: Terry Crews

Baird: Rob Downey jnr. (I think he delivers sarcasm well)

Dom: John Leguízamo

It would flop at the box office naturally :P

Dercola

Has anyone mentioned Killzone yet? I always thought that there was enough of a story in the 3 games, to pull off a quality movie. On top of that, some of the characters in the game are pretty memorable..

Oh, and the Helghast make awesome baddies

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

http://youtu.be/hrvbCkqBW5A

+1 on Red Dead. Always felt that would make an awesome trilogy..