BIG GAMES, BIG MOVIES... BIG DISASTER?

by c.J
published by Rinie 17 August 2009




Recent few years, moviemakers have been tapping into the video game monarchy to convince fans that live action versions of their favourite adventures is way better on a giant screen in the cinemas. While Tomb Raider movies starring Angelina Jolie found relative success, the video game movie genre is best defined by such failures as Resident Evil, BloodRayne, Silent Hill, Alone in the Dark and Wing Commander. So far, we've tracked at least 18 movies in works, and we really hope these will finally break the movie game curse and the better for us gamers to sit back and watch the game being played.



1. Castlevania





When: 2011?


In case you haven't noticed, vampires are hot soup. With True Blood streaming up HBO and a Twilight sequel in the works, a movie based on the Castlevania series seems like a sure thing. At least it did in 2005. Writer/producer/director Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat, the Resident Evil movies, DOA: Dead or Alive) was first tasked with writing and directing the movie. In 2007, Anderson (who was busy after impregnating Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich) passed the project to director Sylvaine White (I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Ronin). White's a fan of the game series and seemed ambitious about the project but by 2009, there's still some confusion as to whether the Castlevania film project still has teeth.


2. Fallout 3


When: Still a Rumor

While most movies deal with major cities in the U.S. being nuked or saved from being nuked, Fallout 3's storyline casts a different tale that happens nearly 200 years after an alternative version of Washington, DC gets blasted and irradiated. The rich survivors holed up in massive nuclear shelters called Vaults have nearly no contact with the outside world, a place called The Capitol Wasteland that's filled with mutated rats, insects and ghouls (the result of nuclear waste on humans).

The game, created by DC-native Bethesda Softworks, carried the voices of several well-known actors including Ron Perlman, Liam Neeson and Malcolm McDowell, seemed primed for Hollywood. On April 17, Joystiq reported that the developer took out trademarks on the use of Fallout in the names of TV or film productions. That set off speculation that the company is already working on creating a film based on its license.

3. Gears of War


When: 2010

Yes, this movie appears to be happening. Lens Wiseman (director of all four Underworld movies) is heading it up with the help of New Line Cinema and Legendary Pictures signed on for distribution and production and Stuart Beattie (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) writing the script.

A plot based on the adventures of a small squad of soldiers fighting against an alien race of underground dwellers called the Locust Horde might sound like a paint-by-numbers sci-fi storyline, but it's the stuff from which summer blockbusters are made. Final script changes were being done by Chris Morgan (Wanted) who said that one of the scenes in the movie will tell fans of the series how lead protagonist, Marcus Fenix, gets his facial scar. Since then, we've been polishing our Lancer replica waiting for details on the upcoming movie.


So what do you guys think? Does most game converted to movies are a success? I personally dont like the Dragon Ball The Movie coz Goku is orang putih :P