Popculture AHC: Video Game Movie Boom

sharlin

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If Spielberg approached the chap who created Metal Gear I think speilberg would have left the building face first from the 6th floor. Metal Gear is Kijima's baby any he seems to let no one else touch it. I suppose you could do a decent HALO movie maybe make it a 2 parter or start with Reach or something.

And talking about Manga/anime, i'd love to see a 40k movie done by by an anime team/producer, realistically its the only way they could do the sheer scale of it justice and they'd not have to go all kwaaiiiiiiiii on it either.
 
Not sure about plausibility, but on one of the many many collaborative timelines we had on here, something like this happened.

Halo was a huge hit as OTL, but the Xbox failed miserably after the initial boom. Thus Halo is still a juggernaut but is unable to produce video game sequels. A big movie studio (forgot who we used) picks up the movie rights to the monumental game. James Cameron shows off some early ideas for Avatar to said company, and they kind of shut him down story-wise, but agree to pay a big sum of money if the tech he had in mind was applied to a different script. Specifically, a small little treatment they have sitting around about the HALO game.

So much funding and quickened development leads to a Halo movie being released around late 2006 IIRC.

This could fit well in a TL where George Lucas produces a series of video game movies (as has been mentioned here).
 
Yeah, they dubbed it and cut out maybe 15 minutes of the movie. Have someone show the whole thing and leave the dialog as is, or even improve it, and you have a movie that will be better than the OTL one.
well then, porbably best to just let someone else in funi handle it. they're generally good about that kind of thing
 
hmmm, i wonder if this good video game mvie verse cold feature an early death of 4kids

Had they not gotten the rights to PokeMon, they likely never would have attained the stature they did in OTL.

Likewise, say, Funimation gets the rights to PokeMon, a lot of thier titles, like Dragonball Z and the like, would get a lot more attention and earlier. We might get an amime movie boom on top of a video game movie boom!
 
You know, Tomb Raider had the potential to not suck: it's a pretty straightforward premise with an awfully good cast (particularly Chris Barrie). You'd need to straight up assassinate the writing team, though.
 
Had they not gotten the rights to PokeMon, they likely never would have attained the stature they did in OTL.

Likewise, say, Funimation gets the rights to PokeMon, a lot of thier titles, like Dragonball Z and the like, would get a lot more attention and earlier. We might get an amime movie boom on top of a video game movie boom!
another idea: would it be possible to replace OTL's avengers with a Smash Bros movie?
 
another idea: would it be possible to replace OTL's avengers with a Smash Bros movie?

Not a chance - theres no story to speak of, and a lot of the Smash Bros charachters have no chance of a franchise. The best you could get is something like Wreck it Ralph, filled with cameos and the like.
 
It makes sense to me. Resident Evil has had what...5-6 movies made at this point? I knew a lot of people who saw Silent Hill when it came out and didn't even realize it was based off of a video game. A lot of what works in Horror video games is the same as in movies. Plus a lot of the themes are now popular in the mainstream, like Zombies for Resident Evil. I think you can persuasively argue that Resident Evil had a lot in shaping the modern Zombie genre as it is viewed today.

RE hold s special palce in my heart but I'd argue the opposite, I'd argue Resident Evil is a product that is so obviously shaped by the society around it. It spans over a decade adn you can see what films it is trying to copy. The Matrix era stuff is obvious but even in the later films, you see them taking stuff straight from Romeo's work and the like. Easiest example is the Zombie on the phone thing from the third film which is taken directly from an older generation film and the look of the zombies (when they appear) is borrowed greatly from the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. The latest film shows this too, thanks to Walking Dead, zombies are back in vogue and RE has latched onto this with it's giant underground city, thing, with zombies attacking the suburbs and for the first time, they are actually a focus rather than a minor inconvinience. The story moulds itself around what it thinks people want and is part of the reason it has such bad continuity (despite being hilariously fun in camp kind of way).
 
Not a chance - theres no story to speak of, and a lot of the Smash Bros charachters have no chance of a franchise. The best you could get is something like Wreck it Ralph, filled with cameos and the like.
not entirely. Legend of Zelda and metroid should be pretty easy to make movies for. Mario would be dificult, but could povide both mario and luigi. donkey kong is similar.
 
RE hold s special palce in my heart but I'd argue the opposite, I'd argue Resident Evil is a product that is so obviously shaped by the society around it. It spans over a decade adn you can see what films it is trying to copy. The Matrix era stuff is obvious but even in the later films, you see them taking stuff straight from Romeo's work and the like. Easiest example is the Zombie on the phone thing from the third film which is taken directly from an older generation film and the look of the zombies (when they appear) is borrowed greatly from the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. The latest film shows this too, thanks to Walking Dead, zombies are back in vogue and RE has latched onto this with it's giant underground city, thing, with zombies attacking the suburbs and for the first time, they are actually a focus rather than a minor inconvinience. The story moulds itself around what it thinks people want and is part of the reason it has such bad continuity (despite being hilariously fun in camp kind of way).

Well I was referring to the video games more than the movie adaptions, and I admit I have probably overstated my case. However, ever since Resident Evil came into being, it has become almost always the case that Zombies are the results of a virus made for some kind of biological warfare program. I know that the Crazies was made in the 70s (originally at least) and is somewhat Zombie genre, and I think Romero used some kind of gas in the Dead Series (I could be wrong its been years since I've seen them).
 
I would like to bring up Half Life again as a candidate movie during this period; It was kind of an afterthought in my previous post, but the idea does have some merit as a 'standalone' based on its background.

Most of the start is already overdone in other movies (major experiment fails rather spectacularly at secret facility). So the start of the movie can run very similar to the game. From there, we can continue the same or diverge a bit (not too much) and we have various mods that give us inspiration of how it could diverge with some interest.
 
What about an RPG from the 90s? There's Planescape: Torment, there's Baldur's Gate, there's Fallout...
 
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