I really wish studios would just start hiring writters and making original content. Im so bored of everything being ripped from other media.
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‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
i agree i immediately do not care about franchise products these days
Take any trending media in the public consciousness and make a movie based on it. Minecraft, mario, whatever blah blah blah. I'm sick of it all. Don't disturb me I'll be napping
There is a plot?
This noob missed the plot.
Git gud.
Never played. I always thought it had horrible story telling intentionally. From soft games feel like reading a redacted report.
I'm sure they'll fuck it up.
Name one good (serious) videogame movie. One.
It's not a movie, but the Fallout series had a great first season, and I'm looking forward to the second.
The last of us was great too. Not a movie still. But .
The original Mortal Kombat movie. The newest Sonic movie was also pretty good imo.
But yes, this can probably go very wrong.
Lol it may be an unpopular opinion but I don't think we can call mortal Kombat objectively 'good.' It's a cult classic for sure and a fun watch, but for reference it aired at Quakecon's Master Pancake sat night event one year with the MST3K folks and well.. they don't typically do blockbuster hits
I wonder it is going to be THE Elden Ring story or An Elden Ring story, a small contained story in the Elden Ring world could fly really well, bonus points if Patches kicks the protagonist off a cliff.
my preference would be a film about the shattering, giving us some (but not too much) more insight into just what fucked the world up so godsdamned much.
but that would need to be extremely faithful to the lore and character designs and i just don't see hollywood showing up for that.
First, it's A24 and they put out amazing movies .
Second, Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros Movie, and I'm not sure if it would count, but Wreck It Ralph are all good video game movies.
Wreck It Ralph doesn't count because it wasn't based on an actual video game, but on video games in general. But it was indeed great.
I don't know, just because the video game isn't real doesn't mean that the movie isn't based off of a video game. I think it just shows that the reason most video game movies fail isn't because the movie is bad, but because the fans are too harsh. If Wreck It Ralph replaced the main characters with characters from Mario but still had the same basic plot I don't think it would have been as well received.
Super Mario Bros. (1993) was a cult classic.
The 2023 movie is forgettable garbage.
The Sonic movies are fun though. Knuckles TV as well.
The Hoper Mario is something - it's so off the rails, that it's crusing on anothet track.
Normally I'd agree, but it being A24 makes me very hopeful.
Does Last of Us count? Sonic movies and Mario were pretty decent too.
Silent Hill
That one got a lot of hate, but I actually liked it. Not so much the second one, though.
Street Fighter. It's fantastically bad.
Alex Garland has made some pretty good movies, so there's a chance. I thought his instincts with annihilation were pretty much spot on. But yeah, movies based on games do not have a great track record.
Its funny in this case because not "fucking it up" effectively means making a movie that's barely related to the game outside of the basic setting.
WoW, Prince of Persia
Hope they make something trippy like The Green Knight
Doing Edge of Tomorrow style Progression where one actor plays different classes and steadily progresses could be an option. Explore the world from a changing perspective.
“I’ll soon birth thee anew.” — Alex Garland
Personally I'm keeping my expectations low on this one. Game adaption to movie seem to always go to shit. Though personally would love a movie about the Bloodborne universe. I imagine a horror mystery movie about it.
What… uh… I can’t imagine this movie being weird enough to feel like a movie based on a FROMSOFT game while still being accessible to the wide audience needed for a big budget fantasy movie to make money.
After seeing The Green Knight I trust A24 to get this right. They are not the kind of studio that cares about the lowest common denominator. Don’t get me wrong, they can be very approachable/broader appeal when they want to as we see with their Oscar runs. But their movies definitely often target more niche audiences. Elden ring has a large enough fan base that they can count on a decent number of people showing up.
Can you make a movie out of pure lore? Maybe a prequel, like The Fall of Hoarah Loux or Ranni's Rebellion? Will the audience be required to parry things?
Sorry, best we can do is having the audience dodge roll every scene.
Didnt the John Wick movies usee the role effect? Using this one to introduce the dodge role would be funny.
"A24" is the only thing here that gives me a tiny bit of hope.