As movie to
game adaptations go, Alien Isolation was onto a winner.
As far as video
game adaptations go, no one was expecting too much from Dead or Alive.
Not exact matches
The storyline in negligible, and doesn't really
go anywhere, it feels like if there were four dark sector books, and then they decided to make a crappy
game adaptation of the fifth.
Unlike video
game adaptations like the Tomb Raider series or Assassins Creed, which have to contend with years of accreted mythos and complicated character - building, Rampage was always
going to be on pretty safe ground, as long as it featured a giant ape, lizard, and wolf pounding some buildings to powder.
What You Need To Know: In a year where there's plenty of other movies involving battles with aliens for the fate of the earth («Oblivion,» «After Earth «-RRB-, there's one that's
going back to a lauded classic novel of the genre, with the first
adaptation of Orson Scott Card «s beloved book «Ender's
Game.»
As with any video
game adaptation, there are
going to be challenges when it comes to turning Shadow of the Colossus into a film.
With just two days to
go until Assassin's Creed arrives in US cinemas, 20th Century Fox has debuted a new clip from Justin Kurzel's hotly - anticipated video
game adaptation entitled «Father's Blade», which features Michael Fassbender and Jeremy Irons; take a look below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Michael Fassbender says Assassin's Creed planned as first instalment of -LSB-...]
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The legendary director's aim in this
go - for - broke
adaptation of Ernest Cline's 2011 sci - fi novel, a geek touchstone, is to get you in the
game, and it's a blockbuster that aches to be interactive, Forget about headsets, however: Spielberg is in control.
With so many LEGO - based movie
adaptations under its belt, there was always
going to be a
game for The LEGO Movie when it touched down this year.
The interviewer
went on to learn what attracted Anderson to another
game - to - film
adaptation.
This trailer for Roger Michell's
adaptation of the book leans harder on the romance angle than anything else, but the cover of Chris Isaak's «Wicked
Game» and all of the yelling
going on make it pretty clear that there's some heavy stuff
going on behind the sweeping vistas and outdoor sex.
As New Regency and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed gears up to
go into production later this year, Deadline has revealed that Oscar - winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose, The Dark Knight Rises) has signed on for a mystery role in the video
game adaptation.
Hailee Steinfeld and Harrison Ford May
Go For Ender's
Game: Odd Lot Entertainment is loading up their
adaptation of the Orson Scott Card sci - fi novel Ender's
Game big and fast.
Luke Owen keeps track of the biggest video
game movies... To
go along with our Highest Grossing Superhero Movies of All - Time list, I felt we should also keep tabs on the video
game movie
adaptation.
I haven't seen any of it in action, but it's noteworthy when every other licensed IP is either
going experimental (The Twilight Zone) or the safer mobile route, like the
game adaptations of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Penny Dreadful.
This video
game adaptation gives us a relatable lead character
going through the usual Indiana Jones motions
In case you haven't heard by now, From Software's popular Souls series is getting an official board
game adaptation, and the board
game's Kickstarter campaign reached its original funding goal mere minutes after it first
went up, proving that fans are still very much prepared to die, and die, and die again.
It took more than 25 years for Gerald's
Game, one of Steven King's lesser known works, to find a silver screen adaptation and thankfully Mike Flanagan does a pitch perfect job of translating the sex game gone horrible wrong into a dread - inducing waking nightm
Game, one of Steven King's lesser known works, to find a silver screen
adaptation and thankfully Mike Flanagan does a pitch perfect job of translating the sex
game gone horrible wrong into a dread - inducing waking nightm
game gone horrible wrong into a dread - inducing waking nightmare.
This whole video
game adaptation thing will never work until someone f*cking cuts out all the video
game sh*t — if it looks like you're playing a level, scrap it and
go back to the drawing board.
The trailer for Netflix's Stephen King
adaptation Gerald's
Game illustrates the unexpected consequences of kinky sex
gone bad.
Constantin Film's «Monster Hunter,» the video
game adaptation budgeted at around $ 60 million, will
go into production starting in September, re-teaming Constantin with its «Resident Evil» star Milla Jovovich, director Paul W. S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt.
Another video
game adaptation is all systems
go, so let's hope it's not slaughtered like a certain tomb raider was, but SAFE HOUSE director...
Tomb Raider probably won't
go down as the film that finally broke the video
game movie «curse», but it does show that video
game adaptations can make for decent (if disposable) genre entertainment.
Even after getting an average response from the critics, film
went on to become the highest - grossing video -
game adaptation ever worldwide.
Things have
gone a little quiet on the impending Best Video
Game Adaptation Ever front.
There's also the fact that, if P.T. Anderson was
going to pick a fight with a director best known for crappy video
game adaptations, Boll wouldn't even be at the top of the list; after all, Anderson's still got unresolved beef to handle with his nominal doppelganger, Resident Evil's Paul W.S. Anderson, first.
Since His Face is Red in 2010 and Margot's Room two years ago, Carroll has worked in print comics (an upcoming
adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak) but even more in video
games, with the indie
Gone Home just release.
Video
game movies are still being made, and I'm not
going to even humor the idea that any given
adaptation will somehow «fix» the notoriously bad genre.
Love it or hate it, a whole lot of time, money, and effort
went into Hollywood's first video
game adaptation.
As movie franchises
go, Mad Max is one that's been crying out for a video
game adaptation for a while.
It's not the film that's
going to pave the future for
game - to - movie
adaptations.
Square Enix's mobile board -
game adaptation of the Deus Ex universe, called Deus Ex
GO, launches on August 18 on Android and iOS.
I believe that the majority of
game to movie
adaptations are
going to continue to fall short because
games are designed very different in their story and characters.
There's a film being made that's a loose
adaptation of the first
game's events, a group of copycat vigilante's trying to mimic Jacket's exploits out of boredom, a detective who's content with massacring criminals, a writer who'll
go to any lengths to write his book, and we even get a glimpse at Jacket and his friend from the first
game.
There's something familiar
going on here, in that the artist's debut
game score displays the same razor sharp attention to detail invested in his live
adaptations of Hip Tanaka's NES compositions.
These initiatives already are
going hand - in - hand with community involvement — for instance, open houses on climate change
adaptation, including the opportunity to play a
game that examines waterfront protection options.