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[Lukehi]

woo hoo cany wait for another res movie. been hoping they would do a devil may cry movie to now that would kick arse

I've got the anime on my Lovefilm list so I'll do a review once I've watched them.

[GamerMan316]

woo hoo cany wait for another res movie. been hoping they would do a devil may cry movie to now that would kick arse

I've got the anime on my Lovefilm list so I'll do a review once I've watched them.

Me too along with another 100+ films, might be a while before i get it.

[TaraJayne]

And me

[GamerMan316]

after seeing the trailer for the Dantes Inferno anime, i'll be adding that to my list too, it's not out till next year though 

[GamerMan316]

been waiting for this for ages, out next week in the States, January for us though.

[GamerMan316]

Resident Evil Director 'Circling' Castlevania, Metal Gear Movies

Castlevania? Thought that movie project was dead. Apparently not, and apparently Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Death Race, Mortal Kombat) is "waiting on a script." Oh, and he'd like to adapt Metal Gear Solid for the silver screen, too.

That is according to Jeremy Bolt, who is Anderson's co-producer on Resident Evil: Afterlife. Visiting that film's set, the site ShockTillYouDrop.com says it spoke to Bolt, who "told us this morning that Paul W.S. Anderson is still circling video game adaptation Castlevania at Rogue Pictures and that they are waiting on a script."

"Bolt added that he and Anderson would like to adapt Konami's Metal Gear Solid for the big screen at Columbia Pictures," ShockTillYouDrop.com added.

You can check out Paul W.S. Anderson's filmography here but he ain't no Bergman. Please note that none of this confirms Anderson has anything to do with the Metal Gear project.

[GamerMan316]

Modern Warfare Movie Adaptation In The Works?

Oh no!  It seems that yet another game to feature film adaptation will be Activision/Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2. MovieWeb reports that Kevin McKidd, who voices Captain "Soap" McTavish, seems to have commented that the movie is picking up steam and a few scripts have already been penned.

If this is to become a reality then it will be one of the many games being made into a film amongst the likes of Bioshock, Gears of War, soon to be released Prince of Persia, Tekken and many more.

Now we all know the history of game-to-movie adaptations and we all know rarely any of them are remotely good or true to the game's storyline or feel: *cough cough* Far Cry.

Many have shown great potential such as Max Payne yet upon release have been unexceptional or disgraceful and not worth the price of watching it in the cinemas (or even renting it on dvd).

How on earth a Call of Duty film would work is beyond me.  Modern Warfare 1/2 were told in a sort of Inglorious Basterds style, jumping from protagonist to protagonist always in different places and different times.

Yet translate that into a movie and you're probably looking at hours of disjointed jumping from one place to another, so how would a Call of Duty movie work exactly? It beats me, but as Kevin says there is apparently a script which has been penned and is very good.

Still, games like Far Cry, Max Payne and Alone in the Dark, to name a few which have been failures, have pretty much shown gamers that unless treated with precision and heart it will not live up to its game counterpart.

Prince of Persia on the other hand, based on the first trailer, shows great promise. Yet all us movie buffs know just how trailers show all the good stuff then come movie time there's barely any good stuff you haven't seen.

Let's hope come release the Prince of Persia movie does exceptionally well and finally break the blend of the horrible game-to-movie adaptation curse.

As well as that let's hope some more light is shed on this supposed good CoD Modern Warfare script. I wouldn't mind a CoD movie but knowing its

formula the cast will have to be spot on and story wise it will need something decent and not too over the top. Then I might not mind paying the cash to have a good laugh.

Dead or Alive was probably one of the best (unintentional) comedies in the year it was released and well worth the price of watching it; heck I got my money's worth.

So Call of Duty movie or not? Ideas? Thoughts?


List of games made into movies:

    * Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen! (July 20, 1986)
    * Super Mario Bros. (May 28, 1993)
    * Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (July 16, 1994)
    * Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (August 6, 1994)
    * Double Dragon (November 4, 1994)
    * Street Fighter (December 23, 1994)
    * Mortal Kombat (August 18, 1995)
    * Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (November 21, 1997)
    * Pokémon: The First Movie – Mewtwo Strikes Back (July 18, 1998)
    * Wing Commander (March 12, 1999)
    * Pokémon: The Movie 2000 – The Power of One (July 17, 1999)
    * Pokémon 3: The Movie – Spell of the Unown (July 8, 2000)
    * Shenmue: The Movie (January 20, 2001)
    * Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (June 15, 2001)
    * Pokémon 4Ever – Celebi, Voice of the Forest (July 7, 2001)
    * Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (July 21, 2001)
    * Resident Evil (March 15, 2002)
    * Pokémon Heroes (July 13, 2002)
    * Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker (July 19, 2003)
    * Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (July 25, 2003)
    * House of the Dead (October 10, 2003)
    * Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys (July 22, 2004)
    * Resident Evil: Apocalypse (September 10, 2004)
    * Alone in the Dark (January 28, 2005)
    * Air (February 5, 2005)
    * Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (July 16, 2005)
    * Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (September 14, 2005)
    * Doom (October 21, 2005)
    * BloodRayne (January 6, 2006)
    * Forbidden Siren (February 9, 2006)
    * Silent Hill (April 21, 2006)
    * Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (July 15, 2006)
    * Dead or Alive (September 15, 2006)
    * D?butsu no Mori (Animal Crossing) (December 16, 2006)
    * Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai (July 14, 2007)
    * Clannad (September 15, 2007)
    * BloodRayne II: Deliverance (September 18, 2007)
    * Resident Evil: Extinction (September 21, 2007)
    * Hitman (November 21, 2007)
    * In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (January 11, 2008)
    * OneChanbara (April 26, 2008)
    * Postal (May 23, 2008)
    * Like a Dragon (June 23, 2008) aka Ry? ga Gotoku Based on the first Yakuza Video Game
    * Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior (July 19, 2008)
    * Far Cry (October 2, 2008)
    * Max Payne (October 16, 2008)
    * Resident Evil: Degeneration (December 17, 2008)
    * Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (February 27, 2009)
    * Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Platinum the Movie: To the Conquering of Space-Time (July 18, 2009)

Upcoming releases

    * Tekken (2009)
    * The Legend of Spyro 3D (2009)
    * Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva (2009)
    * Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (May 28, 2010)
    * The King of Fighters (2010)
    * BloodRayne III: Warhammer (2010)
    * Clock Tower (2010)
    * Mortal Kombat: Devastation (2010)
    * Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
    * Dead Space (2011)
    * Gears of War (2011)
    * Army Of Two (2011)
    * Uncharted (series) (2011)

[Failed]

Gears of War better be the most expensive, insanely action heavy film ever made. Costs run into the stratosphere but sh*t gets blown up and people get chainsawed in half ... and a giant worm too, made of rock, which eats cities (or is that too far fetched?)

[GamerMan316]

Gears of War better be the most expensive, insanely action heavy film ever made. Costs run into the stratosphere but sh*t gets blown up and people get chainsawed in half ... and a giant worm too, made of rock, which eats cities (or is that too far fetched?)

nope, it's about as far fetched as the French having to cheat to qualify for the World Cup..... oh wait!!

Hopefully the Gears movie won't suck, luckily theres some good talent behind the camera.

Len Wiseman will be directing, he directed Die Hard 4.0 and Underworld, so action wise he's pretty good.
Stuart Beattie was down to write the screenplay, not sure if he's still attached though, but he also wrote Collateral, the 3 Pirates movies, 30 Days of Night, Derailed and was announced to be writing the on/off Halo movie too.
Chris Morgan is also on board, he wrote the screenplays to Fast & Furious, Cellular and both the Wanted film and game.

it's the cast that everyone wants to know about & as yet, still nobody has been named yet.

[GamerMan316]

Modern Warfare 2 man to direct film
Activision Blizzard director heads to Hollywood

Modern Warfare 2 director, Keith Arem is set to switch mediums and head up a full feature film, it's been announced.

Arem will direct 'action thriller' Frost Road, which is to be overlooked by Closer producer Cary Brokaw along with Steven L'Heureux.

The film blurb reads: "FROST ROAD concerns a small coastal Eastern town which is suddenly and inexplicably devastated by an invisible contagion. A young man awakens from a car accident to discover he is one of few survivors in the aftermath of a mysterious outbreak.

"Somehow immune, he tries to save the remaining survivors from themselves, as he desperately struggles to prevent the deadly wave from spreading across the entire planet." Get 50 Cent to call in a few airstrikes, and we're in.

Producer Brokaw bigged-up Arem's move from gaming to movies, praising "...the incredible results that Keith achieved in Modern Warfare 2. The popular response to the title speaks for itself.

"There's a great deal that film can learn from the dynamic and immersive experience of games, in the same way the medium has drawn on graphic novels for visual inspiration," he said. "With FROST ROAD, we believe that we've harnessed the best of not just both, but all three worlds."

Do we sense a trend building? Will Cliffy B soon be heading up the new Bond movie?

[nCogNeato]

been waiting for this for ages, out next week in the States, January for us though.

I saw this last weekend.  It's pretty much what you'd expect.

The Good:
Fight scenes are well choreographed.
Lots of blood.

The Bad:
Acting
Dialog
Plot
Overuse of "slow-motion"

[GamerMan316]

Don't know how many of you have this trailer, my mate just sent it me, i'd read a bit about it but not seen the trailer until now, looks cool!

[GamerMan316]

New Resi movie delayed until 2011

Milla Jovovich, star of the Resident Evil films, has confirmed the release of the next instalment in the series has been delayed.

"So I think we r definitely pushing the film till jan '11," she wrote on her Twitter page. "Boo! But we can't rush it and hve crappy effects, so know it will rock!"

Resident Evil: Afterlife, the first RE film made using 3D technology, had been due to launch in August 2010. However, ShockTillYouDrop.com reported a delay was on the cards.

Jovovich initially denied the report, stating, "RE Afterlife is NOT officially pushed... For the moment it's still on for August." Looks like things have changed, however.


I'd rather they just cancel the movie completely, the first film was okay, crap zombies though & not enough gore, the other 2 were abysmal.  I especially like the comments about not having crappy effects, the first 3 had crappy effects, why change now? 

[GamerMan316]

This, for me, is HUGE news, the action master is back 

John Woo turning Stranglehold into film

Chinese director John Woo has confirmed that 2007 videogame Stranglehold will be made into a film.

"I forgot to tell you. We are going to make that into a movie," Woo told Cinematical.

Does that mean he's making another game? "No. I don't have that much time, even though I want to make one again," he said.

Stranglehold was a sequel to Woo's 1992 action film Hard Boiled, which revolved around hard-as-nails cop Tequila taking down a crime syndicate single handedly.

Woo's good friend Chow Yun-Fat reprised his role as Tequila in the videogame and will presumably take the honours again in a Stranglehold film.

Woo's recent film Red Cliff is Asia's most expensive ever at around $80m and was split into two parts; Part 1 was released in the summer of 2008 and Part 2 came out at the beginning of 2009. A trimmed version of part one was released in the US last month.

Woo confirmed that a full, two-part DVD release of the Asian version will be available in the US - presumably sometime in the new year.

[nCogNeato]

John Woo turning Stranglehold into film

I bet Handshakes is excited for this ...



wherever he is