Extra life: Homage or sell-out?
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by Chris Etling on March 12, 2009 at 4:00 am under A&E
The collapse of video-game adaptations can be divided into two types: unfaithful homages and sell-outs. In theory, video-game movies should be successful. The source material is already present and has a wide following, and some of the screenplay exists in FMVs and in-game-engine movies. But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from destroying half of the major franchises out there.
Super Mario Bros.? Yoshi was ruined. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? Looked pretty, had little to do with the series. Resident Evil? Has anyone even seen Milla Jovovich since that career-crippling choice? Doom? Um, no?
If VG films are ever going to be successful and well-made, directors will have to stop putting their personal spin on everything they touch. You wouldn’t give the script of Gone With The Wind a complete makeover; source material for games should be the same.
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There is a The King Of Fighters movie also Tekken they are both in post production so they will not be successful imagine if World Heroes movie would be another failure,let Hollywood filmmakers make the live action version of World Heroes turning it into a cheesy movie with a cheesy storyline.
I’m not really into Onimusha series but the plot for the movie needs to be scrapped out and redo again so Christophe Gans and Samuel Hadida need to make the changes on the script and get some Asian screenwriters theres nothing wrong getting an Asian script write to adapt the script so whats the big deal Ninja Scroll movie has a Asian screenwriter so Onimusha live action film should have Japanese screenwriters to write the script for the movie and it needs to be based on the first game Onimusha Warlords story plot characters etc.
I would like to see Devil May Cry done as well story plot and i think David S Goyer Avi Arad and Larry Kasanoff should adapt the Devil May Cry and I would like to see Larry kasanoff transforming Darkstalkers for live action film as well but the storywise needs to be done right and not too cheesy.
Thank you.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.