The phrase
"movie adaptation" means creating a new film based on a book, play, or another original source. It involves taking the story, characters, or ideas from the original material and bringing them to life on the big screen.
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This week's theme is kind of tough because, well, I think most
movie adaptations of games are just horrible.
We've made the biggest and the best video game
movie adaptation ever, so that's made us the premium brand in terms of adapting video games.
Here are some of the most
recent movie adaptations of beloved television shows, the ones audiences loved and the ones everyone would rather forget.
If you don't understand videogames, you don't understand how little of them actually make it
into movie adaptations.
We're two months away from the release of Assassin's Creed, the latest film that everyone is hoping will finally break the video game
movie adaptation curse.
These are videogame properties that
have movie adaptations in the works, and we're not done yet — Just Cause has just joined the party.
It is at this point in the narrative where, based on the original holy covenant made between author and
movie adaptation gods, something crazy should go down.
The point is however that some material are just plain ill - suited
for movie adaptations and should be preferably left alone.
The actor of Sherlock renown is reportedly set to play «the mightiest magician»
in movie adaptations of Marvel comics
Instead, Assassin's Creed VR Experience, as the not - game is so fetchingly titled, is based on the
upcoming movie adaptation starring Michael Fassbender's 15th - century Spanish blade fanatic.
One of the many strange things about Detective Pikachu is that it's somehow inspired a live action
movie adaptation starring Ryan Gosling as the voice of the titular pokémon.
There is a Hollywood
action movie adaptation of the video game Rampage, and it is one of the dumbest, most fun movies in theaters right now.
The
new movie adaptation of BBC miniseries State of Play continues the American tradition of turning journalism into a turbulent political thriller.
Lifetime's recent
movie adaptation does the very opposite, fictionalizing and whitewashing the facts until it's just like any other made - for - TV movie, complete with aging starlet (here, Jennifer Grey).
The 35 - year - old actor has signed on to star opposite Dylan O'Brien and Michael Keaton in the first
movie adaptation from Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp book series.
It's not just Nintendo or Capcom that are looking
at movie adaptation of their franchises: SEGA also is.
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Due to the success of the Monster Hunter games, particularly in Japan, the franchise has branched out into other media which includes a manga, an anime series and a trading card game, and the property is also set for the full
Hollywood movie adaptation treatment.
A made - for -
TV movie adaptation Heart of Darkness (1993), directed by Nicolas Roeg, starred John Malkovich (Kurtz) and Tim Roth (Marlow / Willard).
At the moment a
direct movie adaptation of the comic can't be made by any film studio due to rights issues; several major characters who appear in the comic (including Hawkeye and the Incredible Hulk) are part of Marvel's Avengers film franchise, and therefore aren't available to be used as part of the X-Men movie franchise.
The actors play love interests Tarzan and Jane in the
latest movie adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs story about a feral character raised in the...
In 2003 there were a lot of disappointed 10 - year - olds exiting cinemas showing Hulk — that year's big - budget
Marvel movie adaptation.
The
subsequent movie adaptation of the scandal, All the President's Men, featured a dashing Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, and their exquisitely coiffed and feathered hair as they unraveled an exciting and hot - button political scandal.
Details have been announced today about the latest Stephen
King movie adaptation currently in the works, this time in the form of his apocalyptic novel, CELL - and good news (well, maybe)... it'll be starring John Cusack!
Hard to believe it's been 10 years, two Dumbledores, four directors, several Quidditch matches, countless spells and teleportations since the J.K. Rowling
movie adaptations began back in 2001 with «H.P. and the Sorcerer's Stone.»
This week the Nerds discuss topics like: Old Boy remake for U.S. audiences gets a director,
Uncharted movie adaptation gets a director, Pirates of the...
The trailers haven't been as captivating as we've hoped they'd be for the Stephen King epic
turned movie adaptation, but the hope was that even with underwhelming trailers, McConaughey and Elba would -LSB-...]
Earlier this month, fans of John Green's iconic young adult (YA) novel The Fault in Our Stars lined up to be the first to see its newly
released movie adaptation.
All in all, Transformers Dark Side of the Moon wasn't the worst game I've played, and moreover certainly wasn't even the
worst movie adaptation of a game I've played but it certainly could have used more QA time.
And speaking of the game play, this is probably the weakest
movie adaptation yet by the LEGO folks as unlike Batman, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, or Star Wars, there is a lot less action in this game as much of the story is advanced by solving puzzles and playing mini-games.
But «Baby» is to Helen Fielding's original 1996 novel and its 2001
movie adaptation what «Sex and the City 2» was to the HBO series — a cause not for celebration but overdue burial.
We've seen many
other movie adaptations converted to games, but nothing in the way of the Fellowship's desperate plight to Mt Doom.
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