Shadow of the Colossus movie still happening

Well, this’ll be terrible.

And it’s not hard to find the right game, it’s hard to find real tallented movie makers to work on these projects. It’s going to take a while for a fresh batch of people who grew up with games to work in Hollywood. Then you’ll get some people with passion and tallent working on game adaptations, the same that’s happend with comic book movies.

“I think many of the games haven’t worked as movies because it’s hard to find the right game. There are very few that lend themselves to movies,”

LOL…and this gone be ?
Sony give their own right to no matter who!
And they have movie studio etc…, find the good guy!

SotC already got it’s movie, it’s called “Reign over Me”. That’s were the story should have ended. http://kotaku.com/246286/feature-the-colossus-and-the-comedian

Please make it not happen.

Filmmakers who have been allowed to direct game-to-film adaptations:

Uwe Boll
Paul w.s. Anderson
Andrzej Bartkowiak

Filmmakers whose adaptations have been canned during development:

Peter Jackson
Gore Verbinski
Neill Blomkamp

…I fucking hate hollywood.

Yeah, but to put abit of context to those names; Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp were to make the Halo movie which was canned because of Microsofts sheer greed, not Hollywood. Unless you count Hollywoods refusal to get raped their own fault, in which case, yeah its because of Hollywood.

You’ve been reading teh interwebs again, haven’t you Geki.

I happen to know a senior VP at Fox who was involved in the Halo debacle, and while Microsoft asked for a lot, it was actually PJ who wanted too much. Like LOTR, he asked for 20% of the gross receipts of the Box office takings, as well as an up-front fee. And while he may have knocked it out of the park with Rings, the studios (two of them co-financing) decided their splits were not worth the risk of investment (around $100m a piece). There was also some doubt about Blomkamp’s ability as a feature director, which District 9 proved to be a shitty call.

Incidentally, I do think Microsoft should have self-financed the film. They would have profitted massively.

Bad bad idea.

The story of this game was subtle and almost non-existant, the beauty of the game was in the experience of exploration and puzzle solving, what story it had was left to the players imagination.

If someone comes along and tries to build a 90 minute film out of the 10 minutes of cut-scenes from that game they’re going to fuck it up.

Are they going to have Wander sit in silence for 80 of those minutes as he rides on horseback around the landscape taking down colossi? (I reckon that’s the plural – best guess anyway), no, they’re not, they’re going to introduce other characters, they’re going to prequelise it, bastardise it and shit all over it.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

@5 And Mike Newell. Prince of Persia and what not.

I’m sure there are videogames out there that could make it as movies, but I’m also pretty sure you can count them on one hand. Think about how amazing you’d have to make a game’s story in a movie, if you were to have the same thrill as actually playing it.

When I think about great tales I’ve been completely sucked into, like Little Big Adventure, Deus Ex, Fallout or Baldurs Gate, the main drive of experiencing those stories was the fact that I was the protagonist.

Maybe I’m just not fanatical enough to think it’s cool with something like a Halo movie, but I really don’t think you can switch medium just like that, and end up with something equally awesome.

Just look at how hard it is to make tv shows into a movie.