successful game to movie transition
Step 1
Do not, under any circumstances, let Ewe Boll direct it.
Step 2
Profit!
Videogames publisher Ubisoft is to launch a film company to adapt its games into motion pictures. The project, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, will help the French publisher's ambitions of knocking Activision and EA off the top perches of the gaming world, movie industry title Variety reports. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time The …
From one who liked PoP and Silent Hill, more adaptations would be great.
"....including Assassin's Creed, Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell."
"Assassins Creed Lineage short movies" into a movie would be a good start. Ghost Recon, perhaps, but Splinter Cell would be great. :)
Tomb Raider wasn't too great, but still a decent show to watch in the Theater.
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If they think they have trouble with PC piracy at the moment, wait until they start putting out DVDs.
I can see it now, a montage of clips that make the "You wouldn't steal a...." warning seem like an open invite to freetards everywhere. Or maybe they set off an EMP pulse at the end of each cinema screening, in order to fry anyone that might have recorded the film on their mobiles.
One day these film companies will realise that the only way to make a successful game-to-film conversion is to use the MYTHOS of these games (and there are plenty of excellent ones available, Dragon Age comes to mind) and base a story in it, not try and adapt a story done in a game onto the big screen. Yes, yes, I know using the big name from the game attracts the fanbois, but they invariably leave disappointed so why not just take the excellent background material and world created, and make a good story to go in it using new characters?
Oh wait, that would make sense... we can't have any of that! ;)
I might be wrong, but I think that maybe the plots of even the best games are not really strong enough to support a non-interactive experience like a movie. In a game they work just fine, even admirably, because you are so much more engaged with the whole thing. But just sitting there watching, and Resident Evil becomes 'Mila Jovavitch kicking things in the head' (which I'll pay for, but should probably be in some sort of speciality section).
Rampage
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IMDB: 6.4/10
RottenTomatoes Users: 47% (3.1/5)
Darfur
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IMDB: 5.7/10
RTU: 43% (3/5)
Look, I'm willing to give him a chance, but I watched Far Cry before I knew who he was and Til Schweiger couldn't save it. I also watched House of the Dead and only made the connection after Bloodrayne. I accidentally watched the Dungeon Siege one he did (I didn't realise it was one of his films) and was asleep within half an hour (and as someone who loves films, that doesn't happen very often).
Sorry, but to give someone who has made so many bad films a chance it requires a pretty special film, and Darfur and Rampage just don't look like that film.