Or roll with some story driven videogames. TONS of content compatible with the big screen, provided they put someone who actually knows the franchise in charge.
Mass Effect comes to mind.
Or a SW film focused on Revan or Kreia.
They already fucked up Halo with the TV series, but an unrelated movie could be good.
Half Life… jfc, Half Life 3 as a movie would be simultaneously such a slap in the dick and absolutely hilarious for not giving us a game. Definitely cinematic potential.
Elder Scrolls or Enderal.
Deus Ex.
Pooooossibly Legacy of Kain - admittedly hard to see them getting that one right as a movie, but it’s a take on vampirism that I don’t think anything comparable has made it onto the big screen. If it went well, it’d be a nice redemption after all the Twilight BS.
This has the potential to become a very long list, but that’s the point: there is some KICK ASS content that the big screen hasn’t ever touched, so rather than remaking old flops, bring on some adaptations!
The biggest issue of most videogame adaptation flops is that they’re not really inspired in the source material. But usually are a different original script with a paint coat of franchise. As a result they fail at being good as part of the franchise, but they also fail at being good as something original because they’re dragged down by the expectations and precedent of the franchise the script is being forced upon. Halo being the biggest example, the writers and show runners even bragged how proud they were they didn’t played the original games.
Counter example, the Warcraft movie is actually good fun because the scriptwriters really knew the lore and understood what makes up WoW’s essence. Part of the problem is producers don’t take videogame as a serious art medium. Similar to the problem that animation has, where some producers don’t think of animation as real cinema.
Something based on Bioshock, either the first or the second, would be amazing as a movie, not just visually but because there’s quite a human side to the story, from the tragedy that beffel those in what was supposed to be utopia and what was done to those who became Little Sisters and Big Brothers to the megalomania of its maker and even the whole wiff of Fascism in the politics of the place before it fell.
Or roll with some story driven videogames. TONS of content compatible with the big screen, provided they put someone who actually knows the franchise in charge.
Mass Effect comes to mind.
Or a SW film focused on Revan or Kreia.
They already fucked up Halo with the TV series, but an unrelated movie could be good.
Half Life… jfc, Half Life 3 as a movie would be simultaneously such a slap in the dick and absolutely hilarious for not giving us a game. Definitely cinematic potential.
Elder Scrolls or Enderal.
Deus Ex.
Pooooossibly Legacy of Kain - admittedly hard to see them getting that one right as a movie, but it’s a take on vampirism that I don’t think anything comparable has made it onto the big screen. If it went well, it’d be a nice redemption after all the Twilight BS.
This has the potential to become a very long list, but that’s the point: there is some KICK ASS content that the big screen hasn’t ever touched, so rather than remaking old flops, bring on some adaptations!
The biggest issue of most videogame adaptation flops is that they’re not really inspired in the source material. But usually are a different original script with a paint coat of franchise. As a result they fail at being good as part of the franchise, but they also fail at being good as something original because they’re dragged down by the expectations and precedent of the franchise the script is being forced upon. Halo being the biggest example, the writers and show runners even bragged how proud they were they didn’t played the original games.
Counter example, the Warcraft movie is actually good fun because the scriptwriters really knew the lore and understood what makes up WoW’s essence. Part of the problem is producers don’t take videogame as a serious art medium. Similar to the problem that animation has, where some producers don’t think of animation as real cinema.
Something based on Bioshock, either the first or the second, would be amazing as a movie, not just visually but because there’s quite a human side to the story, from the tragedy that beffel those in what was supposed to be utopia and what was done to those who became Little Sisters and Big Brothers to the megalomania of its maker and even the whole wiff of Fascism in the politics of the place before it fell.