Metroid: The Movie

[Abudefduf]

Yes but does she have the buns for it cause.

I dunno. Does Gal Gadot have the boobs to play Wonder Woman? And what about Alicia Vikander, does she have the body to play Lara Croft?

 

[Teelie]

I think she could play Samus but like Asr said, Nintendo has to go for it.

 

[Lily Adler]

I dunno. Does Gal Gadot have the boobs to play Wonder Woman? And what about Alicia Vikander, does she have the body to play Lara Croft?

You know neither of those things are true.

 

[Abudefduf]

Wow, what an unexpectedly vicious retort. Here's a like.

I think she could play Samus but like Asr said, Nintendo has to go for it.

And knowing Nintendo that will never happen, so...

 

[terry78]

Yes but does she have the buns for it cause.

More like Sam-Ass Aran, eh? The fellas know what I'm talking about.

 

[Aximili86]

Love Metroid & all (Super's my favorite videogame ever), but...

Didn't Ridley Scott already make the Metroid movie, in 1979? This is the last Nintendo property that should be a movie. Though I guess by that logic, Legend/The Legend Of Zelda too.

But ehh, Zelda shouldn't be a movie either, so...

Going around in circles here.

 

[Fincher]

Didn't Ridley Scott already make the Metroid movie, in 1979?

Only in the sense that John Huston already made an Indiana Jones movie in 1948 (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), which is to say no.

 

[Aximili86]

Excecpt Indy's inspired by pulp stuff generally and not one specific movie/comic/serial alone, whereas Nintendo & specific staff involved in Metroid have pretty much singled out Alien as the inspiration as soon as they'd decided the main character was going to be female. Giger designs, insectoid alien villains, hell, the Ridley character tip-of-the-hat.

It's just going to come off way too similar, iconic a movie as Alien is. People'd see it as "anime-suit Alien", no getting around it.

 

[Asr]

Love Metroid & all (Super's my favorite videogame ever), but...

Didn't Ridley Scott already make the Metroid movie, in 1979? This is the last Nintendo property that should be a movie. Though I guess by that logic, Legend/The Legend Of Zelda too.

But ehh, Zelda shouldn't be a movie either, so...

Going around in circles here.

Metroid has obvious influences from Alien, yes, but the two are different enough that I don't think even casual moviegoers could mistake Metroid for Alien:
- Metroid's protagonist is an ass-kicking intergalactic bounty hunter that wears a powered armor suit which isn't too far off from something like Iron Man's, and was raised by an ancient race called the Chozo. This fact alone could make for a Metroid movie that'd be a balls to the wall sci-fi action movie, with more action potential than even Aliens.
- Samus has a really cool and distinctive spaceship.
- The Metroid games have a wider variety of alien lifeforms than are seen in the Alien movies, in addition to the Metroids themselves. Yeah the Metroids are somewhat similar to the Xenomorphs, but a good designer would make them look different enough. Also, I'm not totally sure on this, but don't the Metroids fly? The Xenos can't fly.
- Metroid's Ridley character is basically a space-pirate dragon. You don't see those everyday.
- If the filmmakers wanted to, they could add Armstrong Houston to the movie so it's not just Samus.

 

[Aximili86]

I guess if they took more from the later games, got into all the ancient-bird-aliens shiz, yeah, you could differentiate it a bit. Not sure you'd want to take the original game as core inspiration though - gamers are going to appreciate both Alien & Metroid and the differences between them, but Joe/Jane Movie Public probably won't. It's very much the same wheelhouse, and as soon as a guy named "Ridley" shows up there'll be some eye-rolling.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

You overestimate how many people these days have even seen Alien or Aliens let alone play the original Metroid games.

 

[Lily Adler]

You overestimate how many people these days have even seen Alien or Aliens let alone play the original Metroid games.

Stop making me feel sad.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

True story, I had 4 dates this year and I had to show them Alien and Aliens because they'd never seen it.

 

[Teelie]

The distance to Metriod from Alien is the same distance that is between Earth and Mars. Sure, they are both in the same solar system but they are not the same planet.