Game To Movie

I got around to beating Freedom Fighters last night and when the game was over I was sitting here thinking about how cool of a movie this game would make. So, I thought I'd see what you guys would think could cut it as a GOOD motion picture.

You can assume that whatever game you choose would be made properly, as in adapted to film in a way so that it doesn't lose story and that it isn't boring. (But if it doesn't have a good story to begin with cough house of the dead cough it'll be crap. Also, by boring I mean lifeless, storyless, and stupid.)

Place your ideas below :smile:

I also think the entire Metal Gear series would make an awesome film series.

Max Payne 2. Topic over. :biggrin:

"Half-Life";"Far-Cry";"Half-Life2";"Doom 3";"Doom";"Serious Sam"

Bubble Bobble

Tetris..

Serious? Deus Ex!

deus-ex would be a good movie yus.

Definately Silent Hill. Possibly Fear Effect.

The Silent Hill games could make a really good transition if the director wasn't too heavy handed (as with Resident Evil). They need to concentrate more on the suspense and awareness that there's monsters around rather than throwing them in your face simply to show off how 'brilliant' the special effects are.

That said, Castlevania would make a great balls-out actioner!

edit Kage beat me to it :smile:

ehm ... Metal Gear Solid ... (the game almost IS a movie)

Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic (great storyline)

Vagrant Story on the playstation, but perhaps I'm wrong. Its story was great - really twisting and intruiging, and the style it was presented in (comic book speech bubbles in the in-game engine) was absolute genius. Perhaps its overall coolness would be lost in a transition to film, with speech and , most of all, actors. The game itself was hugely cinematic, in particular the intro (the ACTUAL intro, as opposed to the FMV sequence as it loaded), which felt to me like a movie trailer.

Vagrant Story on the playstation, but perhaps I'm wrong. Its story was great - really twisting and intruiging, and the style it was presented in (comic book speech bubbles in the in-game engine) was absolute genius. Perhaps its overall coolness would be lost in a transition to film, with speech and , most of all, actors. The game itself was hugely cinematic, in particular the intro (the ACTUAL intro, as opposed to the FMV sequence as it loaded), which felt to me like a movie trailer.

I see that as more of an anime venture, like Fear Effect, purely to keep the look and feel of the game. :smile:

Forceflow said:
Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic (great storyline)

doesn't that game has multiple endings? lol ummmmmm lets think....... HL series: HL1 HL2 op4 blue shift........definitely Max Payne...........possibly GTA 3 (not vc).........and deus-ex.

System Shock 2

Twisted Metal

Kage, Silent Hill is being made into a movie.

So are Soul Calibur and Dead Or Alive...beat em up movies...ewwwww :sad:

Kage, Silent Hill is being made into a movie.

Ack! Let's hope they don't c**k it up like Resident Evil.

I liked the res evil movie actually, as has everyone I've talked about it with. Its NOT a good adaption of the game but its a cool movie in its own right, provided you try and view it as seperate to the games.

I found it unbareable. Sometimes I just had no idea what was going on, I found almost the entire cast of 2-d characters boring (I still can't remember any names, which at least half had zero character and were simply there to die), that hive queen was the most annoying thing in existence, and the soundtrack was just random moments of noise. Oh, and don't forget the horrible SFX on that Licker, and some horrible logic holes (why does that laser corridor wait until one guy is left alive before splicing him into many pieces? why didn't it just use that in the first place instead of one lazer? Was it toying with them or what? Oh, and there's that big trap door in the train. WHY?! ). And don't forget the fact that everything was either made of shiny aluminum or concrete. Urgh.

I was surpsied it made no attempt to be scary as well, not inculding the one million cheap shots, because that's just cheating.

God, I hated that movie.

[EDIT]: hehe, Can you feel the love? :razz:

Haha, all good points mate, but I guess it just appealed to me in the sense that it was entertaining.

Same here, man.

I like the RE movie, I don't know why. As I've said it many times before. There are no really good aspects of the movie (Except the director, he is a good director, it was mostly the focus of the story). And I'm also looking forward to RE: Apocalypse ... not sure why lol. But I'm sure I'll like it, even if it isn't great.

RE wasn't that great but it was as horrible as I was expecting therefore I was almost satisfied lol.

still want to see House of the Dead, that's supposed to be horrible.

American McGee's Alice is supposedly being made into a film- cgi one directed by Wes Craven last I heard. Not sure if it fell through or what, but it has potential, I loved the world in that game.

Metroid could be good if it was done well. mmmm... real life Samus.. drool

American McGee's Alice is supposedly being made into a film- cgi one directed by Wes Craven last I heard.

Oh, God! What a bad director. (Yes, Craven is a terrible director)

Metroid could be good if it was done well.

That would kick so much ass.

Oh, also, I personally think a tweaked version of the Hitman story line would be pretty bad ass as well.

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

I thought the game did a pretty good job of being a movie

Pah, most of the good ones have been used.... so I'll just repeat the ones I'd go see.......

Doom: A beefed up Kevin Spacey as the Marine.

Half-Life: Charlie Sheen as Gordon. He did a really crappy movie regarding aliens where he looked a lot like Gordon, so it'll work out well.

Morrowind: Purely because Morrowind, as a movie, would be some hard-core trippy s**t. "wtf, walking cat people with swords!?" Good luck writing a coherent screenplay, though. :smile:

The Arival was okay. (the movie in which you refer to), it wasn't crap though.

However, something I don't think many people here are realizing, the ones who suggest Half-Life anyway, is that, specifically for HL, there would be so many things that would need to be changed. There's absolutly no character development in the entire game, it would be one of those movies you see that have, in theory, a really complex plot, but it gets dumbed down by action.

The over all story line would have to be ripped apart and carfully pieced back together to resemble anything close to good story telling. The way it is now works as a game, but it would need some major tweaking, even if you include all the add-ons as part of the story, which I wouldn't accept a HL movie as HL if it didn't have Opposing Force in the story line.

Charlie Sheen, by the way, is a terrible actor, however, you're right, he looks like Gordon, but then again, so does Danny Badaduchi

Perhaps Front Mission 3 - plenty of characters and development in that, with a pretty complex storyline. With those things it could mean there is plenty of content for a film without just having action to go on (ie. like an FPS being made into a film). I'd love to see some realistic CGI of those wanzer's too - the stuff in the games is great but the quality of something like LOTR's special effects would be incredible.

Unreal.

Not Unreal2. Not the mission pack. Just plain old Unreal.

I'm not sure if Half-Life is movieworthy. Its a great game, with a good storyline, however I dont think the story would translate well to a movie.

And anyway, who would play Walter Bennett?

Killswitch... thiers so manny moves like this game its not funnie....

How is kill.switch? I played the demo and, as a fast paced shooter, it was good fun. Is the full game any good? I can imagine it being a bit short lived.

Half-Life's plot is basically "Die Hard for nerds".

Let's do this the other way around ... which movie would make a good game ?

The only thing worse than a movie based on a game, is a game based on a movie, but what about a game based on a movie based on a game???

Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill would make great movies...actually my friends and I are going to make indie versions of both when we get a camera in the next while. When my hair grows long I've got a great Snake impression, and I can do the voice spot-on :biggrin:

Smoke said:
The only thing worse than a movie based on a game, is a game based on a movie, but what about a game based on a movie based on a game???

Like the game "Street Fighter: The Movie"? Oh dear god, how did that EVER happen...

I guess Splinter Cell could work as a film, but they would need to work on more non-action sequences - other than radio chatter there is no character interaction.

The only thing worse than a movie based on a game, is a game based on a movie

What are you talking about? Unless that movie is like High Fidelity or Magnolia or something, it would be great.

A Gear Box production: High Fidelity...THE GAME. Smash in Tim Robbins's face with ANYTHING, in completely INTERACTIVE environments ...

Anyway, something that would make an AWESOME transition to game (In my opinion) would be Enemy at the Gates. So would Terminator, but they just can't seem to make the game properly, I don't know why.

I've noticed that small development teams usually reach and grab for movie conversions and they never really deliver. I mean, I enjoyed Enter The Matrix, because I thought it was fun for the most part. But, it wasn't a great game. (It was actually A LOT better when it didn't install properly, so I didn't have the arrow telling me where to go :smile: ). Terminator 3 blows so much ass, I mean the game is actually worse then the movie, how the hell can this be possible?? (The movie had good action though, damn good action actually, but that doesn't make the movie :smile: ) Also, I've noticed that certain games leave me wanting to play them more then once, even if they don't have very elaborate game play, if their story is adequate and well drawn out. (Such as MGS, Think about it, if that thing had NO story, how many times could you play through that thing? It's like one of the only games I never skipped any movie on, except when seeing the same movie like five minutes after I just saw it.)

Like the game "Street Fighter: The Movie"? Oh dear god, how did that EVER happen...

...Dear God I don't know. What a bad movie, what a bad game. I feel bad for Raul Julia since that was his last role before he died :sad:
He was a DAMN good actor.

why does that laser corridor wait until one guy is left alive before splicing him into many pieces? why didn't it just use that in the first place instead of one lazer? Was it toying with them or what? Oh, and there's that big trap door in the train. WHY?! ). And don't forget the fact that everything was either made of shiny aluminum or concrete.

conserving energy?
train line maintenance?
and you try and make a giant lab under a city, what would you use? id use cottencandy! :biggrin:

what about Rainbow 6? or would there be a load of hastle with the book?

Well the book could be made into a film better than the game I reckon - if you are talking about the first one that is. Tom Clancy books often make decent enough crossovers to films, so R6 would stand a chance. I think its perhaps a bit long but book to film conversions always have that problem tbh.

trilogy ahoy! :biggrin:
yea, theres not much of a story behind the other R6 games past the first one.

Clancy is a licensing fiend, I'm sure it could happen.

prob will when he runs low on money!
wasant tekken ment to be made into a movie long ago?
and what about escape from LA, from the makers of MGS? :biggrin:

Half-Life. Starring:



Charlie Sheen as Gordon Freeman.



Christopher Walken as the Gman.

More ideas for casting... Show off!

Uh dude, Kojima based Solid Snake off of Snake Pliskin in Escape from New York, not the other way around.

MG2 Kojima even matched up actors to the characters for design purposes :smile:

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ha ha ha, I never realized there was THAT much simularity. However, Charlie Sheen is a s**tty actor, and he would make the movie drop faster then a madrigras whore.

Goddamn, Christopher Walken is cool.
However, I like Kevin Spacey's impression of him more lol.
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Uh dude, Kojima based Solid Snake off of Snake Pliskin in Escape from New York, not the other way around.

MG2 Kojima even matched up actors to the characters for design purposes :smile:

thats what i was getting at. all theyd have to do is change a few textures and voices. :razz:

and the over all story line and character development of metal gear

Metal Gear Solid 2:Sons of liberty!!!

LAzerMANiac said:
Metal Gear Solid 2:Sons of liberty!!!

Dude its already a movie practicly, now MGS:solid snake would be a better on, because in my opinion it was a better story.....I mean come on,\\\\\\spoilers////// the patriots!!!! And what the hell were the la-le-lo-le-low? (That was a question)

I think the entire Metal Gear Series as potential for a film adaptation (especially Metal Gear 2 ... oh man.)

However, I would rather Sons of Liberty didn't get made into a movie, just because I didn't like Raiden too much.