Game to movie or Movie to Game.

[Samurai]

http://www.slashfilm.com/ghost-rider-crank-codirector-brian-taylor-twisted-metal-video-game-adaptation/

I think that particular conversion might work very well. I've only played the first twisted metal and perhaps the third which were both really fun imo. I don't recall there being a "deep" storyline, and the things I do remember seem to be included in the film plot.   I just wonder if they are going to put the Dude with the 2 Huge wheels in there 

These are the guys that made the Crank movies (highly entertaining) and Gamer

@ the Metal Solid movie idea, I honestly wouldn't mind seeing a Animated version done with a upgraded MGS4 engine or renderering similar to that style. Hell , even an animated version like Peace Walker. Big MGS fan here 

@ Bioshock idea - The movie has been in talks to be made for several years it seems. I recall Gore Verbinski being attached to it at some point.

Shadow of Colossus would be awesome. I'd love to see it like the game. Almost no dialogue and any spoken word is just from an past mythical language you can't understand but everything is still conveyed. You would hear the "roar of the earth"

One game to movie that has gotten alot of Fans upset is the Uncharted Series movie. Supposedly with Marky Mark Walberg  ( aka Max Payne ). It's been talked about as being a family fun film like the "Swiss Robinson Family".....that statement has led to petitions and outcry from many.

As horrible as Mario Bros was, (and in the same light good in that bad way) cost 40 mill at the time and only grossed 20 million in the states. Don't think it fared any better outside of the US.

@ Kan - forgot about Halo. I guess it did just fade away, when it just seemed like an obvious cash cow. Especially when you have Peter Jackson attached as well.....don't care for Halo at all here so no tears here.

I would like to see a Sly Cooper movie. I really like the characters and feel o fthe game, and you could have a really fun heist type movie. The game (so far) feels like just mashing buttons equating to not very fun. 

[Simon]

Portal would be tricky, it's essentially a puzzle game. Can't help but think that would make a better Saturday morning kid's cartoon 

True, but it also has an interesting story. I wasn't thinking of the puzzles themselves though. Just story, but I can see how the puzzles need to be a part of it and that would become tricky. but there is an "untouched" subject in the portal series, and I would love the see the movie about Doug Rattman. If you don't know who it is: http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Doug_Rattmann

So not necessarily portal game to movie, but portal universe rather. I also think that the story of Rattman is very interesting.

[Jubito]

Oh I wonder what's up with the God of War movie...

[kaneda]

One of the major problems with game to movie adaptations is that I can't believe the producers and director of the majority of them had any real passion or even interest in the game. That should really be a prerequisite if you're gonna bring a game to the big screen. You should really know the game inside out, and be able to determine what fans would expect from a movie.

@Sam: Twisted Metal is an interesting choice, considering it's kind of a cult game. MGS as an animated movie would be the smartest way to go. A problem with adaptations is that you can almost never get an actor that looks like the character in the game.



@Jubito: I remember rumblings about that a while back, but there's nothing on IMDB about it.

There's a handful of lists of planned movies based on games, which includes Dead Space, Mass Effect and Heavy Rain. Dunno about the other two, but Mass Effect has a detailed enough back story to make a movie plausible.

[Jubito]

Yeah, just checked it out a bit. This is what I found right now, pretty interesting read:
http://www.ugo.com/games/god-of-war-movie-update-designers-have-no-creative-control

"I don't mean that in a flippant way, but there are reasons why (video game movies) haven't been so successful. A lot of times, they're being picked up as pure marketing tools, and they just want to make something that has brand awareness amongst a core demographic. They don't really care about the quality of the film. It's more of a business decision."

[Arnax]

None.

Fahrenheit - a movie AND a game at the same time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060390/
good movie

[kaneda]

Seriously? Watching that movie I was perpetually thinking '...what is this?' It basically took the book and turned it into some kind of kitch and campy acid trip. Considering it's a Truffaut film, that's not terribly surprisng. But the books is more stark, and didn't benefit at all from the Austen Powers-like uber-60s. There's rumblings about Frank Darabont doing an updated version of the movie, but they're still just that - rumblings.

I haven't played the game (if that's what POINTLESSJAPANESECHARACTERS was alluding to), but it sounds to me like a Commodore 64 title. The film was British, and was made in the whacky 60s, so that sounds right up a C64 programmer's alley.

[Arnax]

I will just copy the interpretation of the movie closest to my opinion:

Fahrenheit 451 introduces a new world in which control of the masses by the media, overpopulation, and censorship has taken over the general population. The individual is not accepted and the intellectual is considered an outlaw. Television has replaced the common perception of family. The fireman is now seen as a flamethrower, a destroyer of books rather than an insurance against fire. Books are considered evil because they make people question and think. The people live in a world with no reminders of history or appreciation of the past; the population receives the present from television.

I would say that this movie was ahead of it's time. I will also try to find the book.

[kaneda]

Yeah, all the ideas are there. It's the direction of the movie that I had a huge problem with. The sense is given that it's about the destruction of books (Nazism, anyone?), but the story's more about the potential for television to become more powerful. So you're spot on - the book almost acts as a premonition of sorts. Although now the internet has done in 10 years what it took television 50 years to do.

Considering the movie was made in the 60's, I guess maybe I was expecting more from it than what it could deliver. But, we digress. I actually now wouldn't mind playing the game (which has a C64 version, but I don't know if that's the only version) to see how it stacks up against the movie and book.

[Basiµm]

Gta San Andreas as a movie please.