Of all
the major game adaptations, this one has the most potential to actually happen.
Not exact matches
For Disney to duplicate its 2013 success, it will need films like Sleeping Beauty spin - off Maleficent, video
game adaptation Need for Speed, and musical Into the Woods to be
major hits, and that doesn't seem likely.
Just a couple of weeks after Gore Verbinski formally turned down the opportunity to direct Pirates of the Caribbean 4 in order to focus on the video
game adaptation Bioshock, the project has reportedly hit a
major snag.
Films adapted from video
games have now been around long enough for the first
major franchise reboot (Hitman and Street Fighter don't count), and while this new Tomb Raider movie has more honourable intentions than the shallow Angelina Jolie - starring films from 2001 and 2003, it too suffers from the inherent superficiality that tends to plague video -
game adaptations.
This year alone she played Juliet in the latest
adaptation of Romeo and Juliet opposite Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti; she played a
major role in Gavin Hood's
adaptation of Ender's
Game; and she had two acclaimed films premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival — Hateship, Loveship alongside Kristen Wiig and Guy Pearce, and Can a Song Save Your Life?
From our point of view, there's a couple of other
major issues that limit video
game adaptations from being much good.
This week, FingerGaming examines some of the
major stories happening in the iPhone and iPad
games space, covering an App Store
adaptation of Zynga's FarmVille and the release of the iOS 4 firmware update.
With several
major adaptations under its belt, Abstraction
Games looks to continue to establish itself as a leader in the space, while also working on their own projects and
games in the near future.