Videogame movies… sigh
Ok it’s a no brainer when a videogame has become so popular in our culture they make a movie out of it. Sometimes, they produce hits like Mortal Kombat, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, and Resident Evil (hits mean money not that they are good). Sometimes, they produce crap like Super Mario Brothers, Double Dragon, Street Fighter and Wing Commander. I do alot of reading about upcoming movies and some of the videogame rights they pick up give me chuckles and make me shake my head.
Case in point:
The game was an okay gun shooter with terrible voice acting. It was a decent game to spend 25 cents on. But the story was nothing special. Many people don’t even know about this game. Yet, they decided to make a movie out of it hoping they can cash in on Resident Evil’s success. So someone decided to get the rights, and this German unknown director Uwe Boll takes the helm. They give him a measley 12 million to make the movie, but it looks like even less. There was even a time he wanted to splice in scenes from the game into the movie. Every actor is an unknown, and the movie just looked terrible. Can’t say that I have watched it, but the general consensus says it blows. Yet, it made its money back and some change, and Uwe Boll is crowned the king of bad videogame movies.
Uwe Boll goes on to direct another movie based on a mediocre videogame. This time it’s Alone in the Dark, a somewhat known series of horror games that started on the PC. This film was originally a Dimension release with the production company that did League of Extraordinary Men. But they have since backed out, and Boll takes over with Artisan distributing. He’s fortunate enough to get some somewhat better actors with Christian Slater and Tara Reid. Hard to say where this one is going. But looking at the lighting in the trailer, it looks just as low quality as House of the Dead. Look for this movie later this year.
If you think that’s enough for Uwe Boll you’re wrong. He apparently picked up more rights to videogames he plans to direct. They include Bloodrayne, a game where a sexy female vampire is out to fight the Nazis during WWII; Dungeon Siege a generic medieval adventure game; Fear Effect, a survival horror espionage adventure with a lesbian super agent; and Hunter the Reckoning, a team sets out to eradicate supernatural creatures. In general, these were all decent games, none really popular, none really terrible. Most recently, Uwe Boll has picked up the rights to Far Cry, a much anticipated first person shooter that has yet to come out. This guy seems to be a big fan of videogames.
You can look forward to another Resident Evil movie this year with Apocalypse. The movie will be based on the 3rd game of the series and has one of the coolest teaser trailers I have seen. And there are talks already about a third movie, which is a no brainer especially if this sequel does well.
The most recent news is that Dead or Alive will get done. It was talked about for awhile, but it seems definite now because they got director Corey Yuen (The Transporter). The game is a fighting game which features several overly voluptuous female fighters that bounce around in a counterattack frenzy. Dead or Alive doesn’t have much of story, but it seems like they try to have a story but inserting random movie scenes before and after the game. But it’s hard to make out what it’s all about. I guess it’s just a good excuse to put together two of men’s favorite things, sexy women and lots of kung fu.
Jerry Bruckheimer picked up the rights to Prince of Persia and intends to make a movie loosely based on the game. It seems to be made in the same fashion as Pirates of the Caribbean which was surprisingly great, making an original story with a few elements from the game.
Soul Calibur was a going to be made into a movie with Sammo Hung directing it a long while back. But that has since died off, and risen again with Warren Zide buying the rights. Zide is the producer of Final Destination and the American Pie movies. I was actually looking forward to this when I heard Sammo was in charge. I was imagining all his martial arts friends in HK and how great the movie could be. Soul Calibur actually has a decent storyline for a fighting game. Here’s to high hopes for this one.
Tomb Raider 3 may likely be developed although it may depend if Angelina Jolie wants to do another one. Richard Donner once picked up the rights to Crazy Taxi, but no word if anything will happen from that. Columbia Pictures when they picked up the rights for Tomb Raider from Eidos, they also picked up Deus Ex, but nothing has ever been mentioned about a movie.
Bruce Darren Acosta Said:
on June 18, 2004 at 7:48 pm
DEAD OR ALIVE AND SOUL CALIBUR MOVIES IN WORKS.
The news on two games to film are getting on different film companies.
Dead or Alive.
Hong Kong director Corey Yuen is set to direct
DOA for Impact Pictures by before the end of 2004.
J.F Lawton will be doing the script as he brings the video games story into the film.
We will get the news on the cast later on during the year.Maybe Zhang Ziyi might star as Leifang and Holly Valance as Hitomi.
Soul Calibur.
Warren Zide has his new production company called Anthem Pictures behind Sony to produce the Soul Calibur movie.The film will focus on hand-to-hand combat,The Soul Edge and a bit of story telling
as well.The script will be done by Cazmon Lukrich
and Yoshihro Nakagawa and also Gordon Chan as they bring the video games plot and storyline into the movie.
Anthem Pictures will get a Hong Kong fight Choregrapher for the movie.Plus there will be orchestra music in the film.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA.
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