Not only did the franchise defy the rules of
video game adaptations failing miserably at the box office, but it also gave us possibly cinema's best female action heroine since Sigourney Weaver's Ripley.
«Need for Speed»: A popular video game franchise, cool car chase and Jesse Pinkman from «Breaking Bad» sure seemed like a recipe for success, but
the video game adaptation failed to create much excitement amongst any of the various fan groups that DreamWorks and Disney were banking on.
Not exact matches
It
fails as a horror movie, a
video game adaptation and a film worth the three dimensions.
Assassin's Creed only added to another
failed video -
game adaptation and his work with Ridley Scott on Prometheus, Alien: Covenant and The Counselor also
failed to impress (although, I was admittedly one of the few admirers of the latter film).
After the success of The Fate of the Furious, headed by Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, it's hard to think that this
video game adaptation will
fail.
For this week's podcast, Wynter and I examine Sony's E3 Showcase choices, How Rage 2's announcement was completely out of left field, and why Hollywood keeps setting up
video game movie
adaptation's to
fail.