Video Games that would make great movies?

[Skooby]

What are some video game or game series that would make pretty good movies?

I'm thinking the Killzone series would make a good one.

 

[storyteller]

Outlast could easily be a horror movie.

A movie set in the Fallout universe could be great. It's one of the few dystopian fictions that are unique enough to make something really original in the post-apocalyptic setting but still marketable.

 

[Liquid]

The problem with video game movies is that they are trying to cram in 10+ hours of content (Sometimes 30 hours) into a 2 hour lower budget movie and it just doesn't work.

It will have to be taken seriously like Lord of the Rings and be a trilogy to fully flesh out the story with a high production value, but movie companies just don't see it worth their time. I think this warcraft movie can be a huge success and help video game movie projects going forward.

Those who went to see it in an advanced screening appear to like it so far:
Warcraft (2016) - IMDb

 

[SupaHotIce]

DC Universe Online. This shyt needs to be a movie

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Read Dead Redemption (a series actually)
AC 1 and 2
The Last of Us
Uncharted 2 (it felt the most natural to me, imagine that train sequence in film )
Final Fantasy 6 as a two part series.

 

[Jparker]

Any Zelda game


A man can dream right

 

[The Tribesman]

 

[Skooby]

Read Dead Redemption (a series actually)

Damn, that's a good one!

 

[NSSVO]

Crash Bandicoot

 

[TransJenner]

Mortal Kombat


GOAT video game movie

The sequel though

 

[HoldThisL]

Gears of War

 

[ball15life]

Any Zelda game


A man can dream right

hopefully sooner than later
Nintendo Planning to Produce Films Based on its Characters

TOKYO — Game maker Nintendo plans to make films and other content from its line-up of game characters, president Tatsumi Kimishima has revealed in an exclusive interview with the Asashi Shimbun newspaper.

Kimishima said that the company would underwrite its filmmaking venture with earnings from the sale of its share in the Seattle Mariners baseball team, announced in April. “As soon as the sale of the team is finalized we will use part (of the earnings) for our new visual contents business,” Kimishima said.

Nintendo has previously licensed its characters for films, including a long-running animation series based on its Pokemon game characters and the 1993 Hollywood flop “Super Mario Bros.,” but Kimishima emphasized that company now intends to invest directly in production, requiring a larger injection of funds. Kimishima did not provide a timeline, but said that the company plans to “decide on what form (the business) will take in the not distant future.”

Kimishima also hinted at talks with Hollywood studios but added that the company is also looking beyond Hollywood for international partners. “We want to work with partners who can develop (this business) on a global scale,” he said. Both live-action and animated films are possibilities, with Nintendo‘s popular Zelda and Super Mario characters likely to be cast as heroes, though Kimishima declined to give details: “All I can say is that characters everyone knows will appear.”

 

[Deltron]

Earthbound

 

[mortuus est]

GTA SA

i always felt like the bit where you meet Mike Toreno could be made into an interesting movie, so much back story

 

[basketball reasons]

that game narrative is written so control over the character is necessary. in a medium where youre supposed to have total control over the protragonist that game slowly takes the control from your hands and forces you to distrust walker and you watch him deteriorate as a person. Alot of the most important themes wouldnt translate

I would really hate if one of the greatest written games ever has to be subjected to being made into a movie. It stands on its own