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Mercenary Mayne
10-03-2007, 05:41 PM
A gaming site is asking the question of whether hollywood is about to ruin your favorite video game. There are an incredible 48 game based movies currently in development. We've come not to expect too much from video-game movies but surely there could be a diamond in the rough from the 48 upcoming titles?



Alice (2008)
Alone in the Dark II (2009)
Area 51 (2009)
Assassin’s Creed (TBA)
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (2009)
Castlevania (Late 2008 or Early 2009)
Citizen Siege (2009)
City of Heroes (2010)
Clannad (2007)
Clock Tower (2008)
Cold Fear (2008)
Death, Jr. (TBA)
Devil May Cry (2010)
Doom 2 (TBA)
Driver (2008)
EverQuest (TBA)
Far Cry (2008)
Fear Effect (2008)
Gears of War (2009)
God of War (TBA)
Halo (2009)
Hitman (2007)
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)
Kameo (2007)
Kane & Lynch (2009)
Max Payne (2007)
MechWarrior (TBA)
Metal Gear Solid (2009)
Mortal Kombat: Devastation (2010)
Ninja Gold (2010)
Onimusha (2009)
Postal (2007)
The Sands of Time (2009)
Rainbow Six (2010)
Silent Hill 2 (2008)
Siren (2009)
Soulcalibur (2007)
Splinter Cell (2010)
Spy Hunter (2009)
Stranglehold (TBA)
Street Fighter (2008)
Tekken (2009)
The Neverhood (2009)
The Sims (2009)
The Suffering (2009)
The Unforgettable (2008)
Tomb Raider III (TBA)
World of Warcraft (2009)

The problem also lies with gamers. Every time Hollywood releases another game based movie, gamers flock to the theaters to pay $10 for another piece of theatrical garbage (stop salivating over Hitman already guys). If movie studios keep making money from terrible movies because of an installed fan base, then they are going to keep making bad movies.

News Source: arcadeplanet (http://www.myarcadeplanet.com/articlenav-300-page-1.html)
Big D.
10-03-2007, 06:52 PM
Alone in the Dark
Castlevania
Clock Tower
Driver
God Of War
Hitman
Kane & Lynch
Max Payne
Metal Gear Solid
Rainbow Six
Stranglehold
Tekken

are the only good ones, and WTF @ The Sims movie???!!!
quan4444
10-03-2007, 07:04 PM
yea...the sims???????????????/
UziMachine
10-03-2007, 08:41 PM
damn. that's a lot
MexBone187
10-03-2007, 10:04 PM
motral kombat has been in the works for 5 years same for spy hunter
Big D.
10-03-2007, 10:10 PM
motral kombat has been in the works for 5 years same for spy hunter

Spy Hunter is supposed to star The Rock...they had a game with him in it, it was supposed to be the movie game.
Hitokiri
10-04-2007, 01:17 AM
It just goes to show that Hollywood are out of Ideas.
BTW Stranglehold is based of 2 films. They Cant remake I wont let them.
The Films are for those who are interested are
"Hardboiled" & "The Killer" Directed by John Woo
Boss_Smoke
10-04-2007, 04:47 AM
Alice (2008)
Clock Tower (2008)
Fear Effect (2008)
God of War (TBA)
Max Payne (2007)
Onimusha (2009)
Silent Hill 2 (2008)
Siren (2009)
The Suffering (2009)

...That's pretty cool. Been waiting for the "Alice" movie for hella long, the game was straight up dope. Love the idea too :nod:

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Big D.
10-04-2007, 06:53 AM
WTF is Alice?
$t@t!c Wraith
10-04-2007, 08:13 AM
The Rock is no longer associated with the spy hunter movie.
kaeckisthename
10-04-2007, 08:50 AM
that's crazy how many there are.....there are gonna be some shitballs out of that bunch.....it's inevitable.....;)
Dodie
10-04-2007, 09:53 AM
where's Dragon Ball?
Deee
10-04-2007, 12:04 PM
Cant wait for metal gear, hope Kojima is directing. I always thought that game need a movie since was basically like a movie already
Jose128
10-04-2007, 04:23 PM
Devil May Cry
God of War
Meta Gear Solid:shaq:
World of Warcraft:shaq:
Kimo
10-04-2007, 04:56 PM
Halo
MK
SF
:)
Mercenary Mayne
10-04-2007, 06:27 PM
They missed Fatal Frame which went in for rewrites last year.
Dreamworks is suppose to be making that one.

I would love to see an Alice movie since that game was very twisted and disturbing in it's day. Although everyone knows the Alice movie is real, and I hope it gets good http://forums.maxconsole.net/images/smilies/smile.gif it has a good chance of getting mariobrosmovie'ed, though http://forums.maxconsole.net/images/smilies/frown.gif
its alice in wonderland set in a twisted/dark reality, as seen in American McGee's Alice game -> wikipedia! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_McGee%27s_Alice)

90% of these movies will never see the light of day, of the remaining few doubtful if anything good will come from them. Just look at past history, aside from Resident Evil & Mortal Kombat there haven't been any other decent game movies, have there?
Boss_Smoke
10-06-2007, 06:25 AM
^Just thinking about that game makes me wish "Oz" would've got picked up. That could've been a hella dope game.

Movie could be real good, as long as it's set after the original, and it's still twisted, and the characters are all still there and have that same creepy artistic style (i.e. - cheshire cat, card guards), and basically just staying loyal to the game...It was hella good, so I think the movie could be too :nod:

As for decent/good game-to-movie transitions, I really liked the Silent Hill movie. I think Gans really re-captured the feeling of the first game.Other than that the majority were disasters....Street Fighter, Alone in the Dark, Dead or Alive (:rofl:), Bloodrayne, ect.

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