Assassin's Creed

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Square Enix dropped the ball on the Crono series, that stupid and misleading Final Fantasy 7 remake news for the PS4, and Parasite Eve.

I was just playing Parasite Eve last night on the PS3. Brings back great memories.

 

[jmc]

Why could a studio head not rely on an assistant to give them notes on the plot or gameplay? Not every studio head reads a novel or comic before the movie adaptation. I bet a lot of them don't even read scripts.

Yes, video games are a different medium and special because they are more interactive than comics, books, etc. That's why i think games like Mass Effect or the GTA games, up to GTA V (not that I want that), would make crappy games because you lose something that makes those games special, which is choice and freedom. Even a Bioshock movie would lose a bit of that.

But linear games where, for the most part, youre on a set path can be treated like youre average novels or comic books.

You don't have to play the games in order to enjoy or understand the potential movie. T I never played Bioshock or The Last of Us...well actually I played for each for about 10 minutes got scared like a child is afraid of the dark and never played the games again. But I read the story on each game and I think each would make a good movie. I'd watch them and Im not even a fan of horror like that.
I think the only people who should play the games are the directors, screenwriters, and probably the actors.

It's so easy to give notes on these games.
-Gears of War: A group of human soldiers fight an underground-alien monster threat. Hard R. Lots of gun play and explosions. Really could draw in the male crowd.
-The Last of Us: A post apocalyptic story where a man has to lead a girl to another location in hopes of finding a cure for a virus. Post apocalypse stories are popular now and zombies are too. The story is very dramatic, yet tense.
-Metroid: Sci fi movie. A female bounty hunter is sent in by a galactic government in order to infiltrate and destroy a group that is threatening the galaxy. Strong female lead. PG13. Lot of sci fi action

I think some people on here are making it a lot more harder than it should be. So are the filmmakers.

And maybe they're not. The summary you listed on each game is more or less where the problem lies - that's not enough to go on for both the studio or the creative talent involved. You've got to have someone invest the some 20+ hours of time in playing the game (which they may find boring) and then somehow condense it into a 2 hour format, and unlike other adaptation like books or TV you've got to take the gameplay itself into consideration which is a new challenge, you can't just adapt the cutscenes because in some games like The Last of Us for instance character development happens during the gameplay. And in all honesty you're always going to lose something in those long narratives. If you're going to do a game justice the only genuine medium where you could do it in is a TV series. Most games are intended to be a slow burn because gamers want value for their dollar. I'm currently playing AC Black Flag again, I'm like 6 hours in and have only completed 30% of the game, it's a long road to the finish line for many of these games.

 

[Octoberist]

I mean, adapting certain games can be a challenge. Since JJ Abrams and Bad Robot are in the process of adapting both Half-Life and Portal, it's hard for me to picture how they'll turn out.

Now I can see Half-Life 2 being a movie, but the first game is more self contained and isolated. Kinda like 'The Thing' or 'Alien' I suppose, but you can't have Gordon Freeman being a mute just walking around corridors.

 

[kvz5]

It’ll now hit theaters Dec. 21, 2016.

http://www.slashfilm.com/assassins-creed-movie-release-date/

 

[Fallen Angel]

Well thank frik it's not been abandoned and put into development hell.

 

[dark_b]

it is in development hell. thats how it looks hahahhahahahah

 

[Asteroid-Man]

it is in development hell. thats how it looks hahahhahahahah

 

[kvz5]

Bane and Talia are on two different video game adaptations!

http://deadline.com/2015/02/marion-...ichael-fassbender-ubisoft-macbeth-1201373027/

Marion Cotillard To Star With Michael Fassbender In New Regency And Ubisoft’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’

EXCLUSIVE: The New Regency and Ubisoft adaptation of Assassin’s Creed has turned into a Macbeth reunion. Marion Cotillard has signed on to star with Michael Fassbender in the Justin Kurzel-directed Assassin’s Creed, the live action adaptation of the Ubisoft video game. They starred together in Macbeth, and Kurzel directed the film, which The Weinstein Company will release later this year.

They’re keeping under wraps the role that Cotillard played, but she’s a versatile actress who won the Oscar for La Vie en Rose, and also played an action role in The Dark Knight Rises. Like Fassbender, her role is meant to span multiple films is this one scores and becomes a franchise. New Regency and Ubisoft has married pedigree elements to a big selling video game, a formula that has served Marvel well in building its franchises. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed video game has sold over 91 million units.

Production will begin in early fall for a December 21, 2016 release through Fox, and the film is being co-financed by RatPac and Alpha Pictures. Frank Marshall, Arnon Milchan, Jean-Julien Baronnet, Conor McCaughan, Fassbender and Pat Crowley are producing. Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and Michael Lesslie scripted. Regency and Ubisoft are also moving quickly on Splinter Cell, which Doug Liman will direct with Tom Hardy starring.

Cotillard is currently starring in Two Days, One Night, for which she is up for an Academy Award. she next will take the Lincoln Center stage with an oratorio of Jeanne Au Bucker, and then she will begin production on Mal de Pierre. Cotillard, Fassbender and Kurzel are repped by CAA and she’s also repped by Agence Adequat in France.

 

[myra]

Wow Cotillard and Fassbender in a video game adaptation. That's sounds very promising. Hopefully this one goes over better than previous video game films.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Are they doing Ezio or Altair? Don't tell me it's Connor.

 

[BlackFox]

Hopefully this can be the first film based on a video game to break out into something decent, it has to happen at some point and this at least has lots going for it so far with a strong lead character and now female act added as well, its got to have a chance at least.

Clearly Hitman is not going to be that film after it fails for the second time this year.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Are they doing Ezio or Altair? Don't tell me it's Connor.

neither from some of the rumours I've heard.

 

[Lord]

There's still Warcraft, which has a realy good Director behind it, i think it has a bigger chance at breaking out than Assassin's Creed.

 

[BlackFox]

True, I know next to nothing about WoW but its huge, or at least it was, might not be quite so popular but I imagine that has a bigger rep than AC. Im sure both will be better than Hitman, shame for me but hey it is what it is.

 

[dude stannis]

Are they doing Ezio or Altair? Don't tell me it's Connor.

Original characters I believe. Even to the point where I think it's in continuity with the games and comics.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I don't know how they snagged Marion, but that is quality casting.

 

[jmc]

The two of them just finished Hamlet together, so this should be interesting.

 

[dude stannis]

The two of them just finished Hamlet together, so this should be interesting.

Same director too! However it's a Weinstein distribution, so 20% of the film might be missing.

 

[flickchick85]

Hope this means there's a finished script and it's good. I'll be honest, I'm not convinced these games make for great movie fodder. I mean, they're fun to play, but I haven't found them to be all that interesting from a story/character standpoint.

 

[jmc]

I think the stories for the most part in the games have been overall weak, AC Black Flag being the exception IMO. I do think if they keep just the basic concept of the Assassin and Templars being at war during different time periods, create entirely original characters and build a story around the concept they might have something. It would be interesting if each film like the game we set in a different time period, but have the same actors coming back in different roles.

 

[childeroland]

The two of them just finished Hamlet together, so this should be interesting.

Macbeth. Same director too.

 

[jmc]

Sorry, MacBeath

 

[Octoberist]

I love Fassbender but I can't see him playing Desmond, so I'm seeing him playing someone else who was in the same program.

Actually, I can see Oscar Isaac playing him, who has a more ethnically ambitious look to him.

 

[TheVileOne]

My guess is they aren't doing any of the characters from the games.

When is Fassbender going to have time to film this?

 

[Loki882]

It'd probably be best if they just kept the basic concept from the game, and some of the characters, but then built their own story around them. IDK if a direct adaptation of a particular storyline would work out all that well.