10 games that should be films

[Ponyboy]

1. American McGee's Alice

That's what I thought Tim Burton's 'Alice' was going to be. Pity.

I'd love to see Del Toro do a Zelda film!

 

[Lord]

L.A.Noire would be a great movie, and like the game itself you'll understand the movie more for watching it multiple times.

Bioshock would be very interesting and i'm still waiting for a proper Doom movie.
Halo should have been made, when great creative minds like Steve Jackson show interested in something like this you shouldn't turn that project down.

Now, i still hope to get the Uncharted movie by 2013

 

[DarthSkywalker]

You want to see the LA Noire film? Watch LA Confidential. You know, the vastly superior material ripped off the for game.

 

[cherokeesam]

You want to see the LA Noire film? Watch LA Confidential. You know, the vastly superior material ripped off the for game.

Saying L.A. Noire ripped off James Ellroy is like saying Red Dead Redemption ripped off Sergio Leone, or Left 4 Dead ripped off George A. Romero.

It's an homage to the genre as a whole, *not* a specific story carried over whole-cloth into a video game.

L.A. Noire has lots of bits of Ellroy in it. Also, lots of bits of Raymond Chandler. And the noir films and TV and novels of the era. There's far more to noir than L.A. Confidential.

 

[Doomed_hero]

while metal gear solid ranks as one of my fav all time series, i dont know if they can convert it into a proper movie . If it was a stand alone of the first metal gear soild game i can see how. but once you get into the Patriots and A.I i think it get a little to hard to fit into a movie or even a trilogy without messing it up.

I think Metriod would make a awesome movie. a epic space adventure.

 

[Laderlappen]

zelda is the movie i want but that game is gonna needs lots of changes for the big screen

seeing how link does'nt speak so he really has no personality

the film makers go to figure out what personality to give him

also we cant have link going to dungeons opening chests can we lol the story needs to be altered for the big screen

Yes I agree with what you said. If they make a movie they should keep the characters, keep some of the worlds, keep the story(not the dungeons part), and having freedom changing everything else.

 

[Rob Lobo]

I think that's a really good one. Althought the game is cartoony, it always reminds me of the Jews and Josef Mengele (Dr Death) during world war 2. The mudokon are seem as a resource to be used than living beings. I also liked the fact you fought them with brain-power rather then pointing a crosshair and shooting there heads off.

That's.... a really good idea!

Thanks

I really love the game and the gameplay is really intelligent when you're only depends on the brainpower rather than weapon just like the OP said. I can imagine the visual will be exactly like Avatar with same CGI.

And I would definitely have this guy as Abe

Steve Buscemi - Abe

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Arkham Asylum would need a heavy series of stories preceding it to happen
Don't care enough for the rest

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Saying L.A. Noire ripped off James Ellroy is like saying Red Dead Redemption ripped off Sergio Leone, or Left 4 Dead ripped off George A. Romero.

It's an homage to the genre as a whole, *not* a specific story carried over whole-cloth into a video game.

L.A. Noire has lots of bits of Ellroy in it. Also, lots of bits of Raymond Chandler. And the noir films and TV and novels of the era. There's far more to noir than L.A. Confidential.

I actually would say they are all past the point of homage. Cherry picking from other tales does not help that point of view.

 

[Octoberist]

The problem with Rockstar games is that they wear ther influences on their sleeves. So you can obviously tell by their games were influenced by movies and because games are interactive, it all bcame celebrated and accepted because it's a differet medium.

Otherwise, its kinda pointless to adapt Red Dead or LA Noire. Though there's so many ripoffs in Hollywood, I guess it doesn't matter.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

i understand it would be a very difficult sell in live-action, but I would love to see kingdom hearts be made as a film. (maybe even just done in traditional animation, blend the classic Disney Renaissance style with the anime style of square enix, the story itself is just amazing). Also, sly cooper could make a film franchise imo, u just love those games, and it would be cool to see a noir style heist film with anthropomorphic animals IMO.

 

[WarBlade]

I'm always hoping for a BattleTech/MechWarrior adaptation personally. When one considers how this went from a paper and dice board game to several popular computer games and dozens of novels and even a cheesy cartoon series, it's easy to see how an idea can grow.

still waiting for my zelda movie

Behold! The Legend of... Neil?

Oddworld - Abe's Odyssey (done in Avatar style!)

Ironically, Abe's Odyssey was actually a movie project before the creators had a rethink and went for a game.

 

[James]

L.A.Noire would be a great movie, and like the game itself you'll understand the movie more for watching it multiple times.

Bioshock would be very interesting and i'm still waiting for a proper Doom movie.
Halo should have been made, when great creative minds like Steve Jackson show interested in something like this you shouldn't turn that project down.

Now, i still hope to get the Uncharted movie by 2013

You mean Peter Jackson?

Assassin's Creed could make a decent film. I'm not really into the games so much (they got boring fast), but I think a movie could be pretty entertaining. It's not like they'd have to worry about any competition from Prince of Persia.

L.A Noire would be okay, but it'd have to be a lot different from the game. Cole would have to be somewhat likeable and less bi-polar. Also separating it from L.A Confidential would be a big challenge.

I'm not a fan of Halo, but I think that has huge potential for a movie franchise.

 

[SuperFerret]

Otherwise, its kinda pointless to adapt Red Dead or LA Noire. Though there's so many ripoffs in Hollywood, I guess it doesn't matter.

It'll matter to me because I'll hear all these people complaining that they didn't do well, and I'll eventually be too tired to keep saying "I told you so."

 

[Spider-Vader]

The list is okay, but this is what I want:

1.) Halo
2.) Mass Effect (In pre-production as of now, but development hell could strike at anytime)
3.) Mario (Made by Pixar)
4.) Legend of Zelda (Also made by Pixar, a live action Zelda would be garbage)
5.) Uncharted
6.) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
7.) Street Fighter (Good this time)
8.) Resident Evil (Good with the game's main characters as the movie's main characters)
9.) Assassin's Creed
10.) Half-Life

 

[cherokeesam]

You mean Peter Jackson?

Assassin's Creed could make a decent film. I'm not really into the games so much (they got boring fast), but I think a movie could be pretty entertaining. It's not like they'd have to worry about any competition from Prince of Persia.

L.A Noire would be okay, but it'd have to be a lot different from the game. Cole would have to be somewhat likeable and less bi-polar. Also separating it from L.A Confidential would be a big challenge.

I'm not a fan of Halo, but I think that has huge potential for a movie franchise.

I forgot about Assassin's Creed, but yes, god, yes, that would make an excellent film franchise.

All in all, I'd say that anything Rockstar or anything Ubisoft would be ideal....more than most other studios, those two concentrate on storytelling and atmosphere/genre/milieu more than anything else (including, alas, gameplay). Their games are already pretty cinematic to start with.

 

[James]

3.) Mario (Made by Pixar)

That's a great idea! Highly unlikely, but a really cool idea!

 

[mikeboydus]

I would like to see these:

1. Splinter Cell
2. Ghost Recon
3. Metroid
4. Metal Gear (NES)
5. Twisted Metal
6. Rainbow Six
7. Ace Combat
8. Command and Conquer
9. Saint's Row (As a violent dark comedy, parody of Fast and the Furious and thug/mafia films in general)
10. Ninja Gaiden

 

[PSYLENTGuardian]

5. Twisted Metal

For me, it felt like we already got that with Death Race.

 

[thejon93]

I would love to see a Syphon Filter movie. I'd love to see a live-action taser execution (especially if it was used as the closer of the final battle with Rhomer)!

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[mikeboydus]

Death Race had the cars with weapons aspect, but it lacked the over the top characters, dark comedy, and Bay like destruction of suburbs, malls, and national landmarks.

 

[DACrowe]

The games that should be made into films need to have an easily understood and adapted storyline that is unique (more or less) to that game. The Legend of Zelda works, but it's unwise to expect Ocarina of Time. As such, games like Final Fantasy 7 shouldn't be made into a movie.

Perhaps, but if they ever made a Zelda movie, Ocarina of Time should serve as the basic architecture of the film, as it is the best Zelda story told to date and has a clear epic, mythic quality that has allowed it to transcend countless platforms and age little beyond graphics over more than a decade.

Furthermore, we've already had many Batman movies, so Arkham Asylum is unneccessary, and with the dozens of crime dramas, westerns and war movies we already have, there is nothing special about GTA, Red Dead Redemption or the Call of Duty series, and they're not necessary to make movies for.

I actually agree with all of this and see nothing special about the stories of GTA or COD. However, while we've had plenty of westerns, RDR's story would make a fine addition to a genre that is sadly scarce these days.

Resident Evil is a tricky one. Yes, they were made into movies, and honestly, the way they were done is really the only way to do it where the movies will stand out, otherwise, what will separate Resident Evil from Dawn of the Dead or the countless other zombie movies out there?

I strongly disagree with this. Turning them into ******, mindless action movies is not "the only way to do it where the movies will stand out."

Even if they were just clones of Dawn of the Dead, that would be an improvement over the brain dead (no pun intended) franchise we got. Again, the last great zombie film was Zack Snyder's remake of Dawn of the Dead or 28 Days Later before that (not counting the several excellent zombie comedies as of late). The reimagined plot of the REmake game (2002) would stand out. Instead of being an almost supernatural force, it will be a scientific experiment gone wrong, but that is containable. It is not the apocalypse. It is the start of a dangerous world where nightmarish dead-creatures are the evolution of biowarfare. And the first film would have a little girl who was tortured for 30 years return as a Leatherface monster, giant bugs and other creatures that make it stand out. Most of all it is a horror movie, not a mindless action flick that is an insult to quality cinema in general, in my opinion.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I disagree about GTA, well at least GTA IV. GTA IV's story of The America Dream gone wrong was a pretty good story that had one of the more tragic video game endings (either one was pretty bad for Niko). Niko was a man who wanted to get away from his War torn home of Serbia to start a new life without violence, but falls back into his violent ways because of his cousin and ends up digging deeper holes for himself.

The other GTAs wouldn't make good movies for the same reason COD games wouldn't make good movies; they borrow a lot from the movies as it is.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

8.) Resident Evil (Good with the game's main characters as the movie's main characters)

Degeneration doesn't count? Or need it be live action?

 

[DACrowe]

I disagree about GTA, well at least GTA IV. GTA IV's story of The America Dream gone wrong was a pretty good story that had one of the more tragic video game endings (either one was pretty bad for Niko). Niko was a man who wanted to get away from his War torn home of Serbia to start a new life without violence, but falls back into his violent ways because of his cousin and ends up digging deeper holes for himself.

The other GTAs wouldn't make good movies for the same reason COD games wouldn't make good movies; they borrow a lot from the movies as it is.

Kind of like Michael Corleone in The Godfather, except with the poverty and American materialistic excess of Scraface?

GTAIV is fine, but thematically it is not quite as original on film.