Ok, so there will be a ton of Movies based on original concepts taken from video games this year. So instead of having a thread for every single one, let's just throw them all in here. Most of them won't be good at all, so this should be fine.
The year already started with what I think will be the uncontested winner of this year's Razzie, Bloodrayne.
Save yourself on looking for the thread, it was garbage.
Still to come though are:
SpyHunter - IMDB Link
Starting:
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Director:
John Woo.
Story:
"Dwayne Johnson stars as Alec Sects, an ex-fighter pilot recruited to join a secret government unit called the "Spy Hunters." As one would expect, the Spy Hunters are equipped with experimental super-cars tricked out with all sorts of high-tech weaponry and state-of-the-art countermeasures."
Links:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8016
Comments:
Not alot is known about this film, only that it could be released this year, though IMDB has it as 2007. Woo is working on a video game right now, so it could be true.
DOA: Dead or Alive - IMDB Link
Starting:
Devon Aoki
Sarah Carter (Who?)
Collin Chou (Better known as "Seraph" from the Matrix)
Director:
Corey Yuen - Made Jet Li's "The Enforcer".
Story:
"The movie adaptation of the best selling video game series Dead or Alive."
Err, you can call that a story...
Pictures:
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/10334/Dead-or-Alive-Movie-Pictures/
Comments:
Safe to say, it's looking bad. Mortal Kombat Redux.
*Silent Hill - IMDB Link
Starting:
Radha Mitchell - "Man on Fire", "Pitch Black".
Director:
Christophe Gans
Story:
"Rose cannot accept the knowledge that her daughter Sharon is dying of a fatal disease. Over the protests of her husband, she flees with her child, intending to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, she ends up driving through a portal in reality, which takes her to the eerie and deserted town of Silent Hill. Sharon disappears in Silent Hill, and Rose follows what she thinks is her daughter's silhouette all over town. It's soon clear the town is not like any place she's ever been."
Links:
Director's Interview
Still of Pyramidhead (from movie)
Comments:
I really am waiting for this movie, I'm a huge fan of the series, and this is looking real good. If you read the interview you can clearly see that the director is a hardcore fan, and has done everything possible to keep the film as true to the source as possible while making this not just another Resident Evil, but a real story with belivable characters.
Quote: "One guarantee that fans can have, is that it's much easier to adapt Doom, even if it is a disaster, as we've seen a month before, then adapt Silent Hill. If you want to adapt Silent Hill, and you're not ready to face all of the complexity of the story, it's just too much. For a lazy director, like the one who directed Doom, simply Silent Hill would be too big of a piece to swallow. I dreamed of adapting this game when I first started playing Silent Hill six years ago. I prepared myself for six years to do this job, knowing that every fan in the world would wait for me with an axe. I will be sniped when I go to buy my games at my favorite store if I do a bad job. And I understand that, I'm a fan of the game myself...I admire the work of Akira and his friends, and I feel very much like someone who joined the group and tried to transport that amazing piece of art into a different medium."
Oh, and click on the still link!
Resident Evil: Extinction - IMDB Link
Starting:
Sienna Guillory (Jill Valentine)
Milla Jovovich
Director:
Russell Mulcahy - "Highlander"
Story:
"It will be set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun with mutant zombies. The film will play in the Nevada desert with the Aussie outback standing in for the American wasteland. The third film will likely to set up the fourth installment, in which the action shifts to Japan."
Comments: If this comes close to RE:1, it should be a good B-Horror movie. If it follows RE:2, then it's doomed. (Get it?)
Ok, I'll search for more later, you guys post any you know of.
The year already started with what I think will be the uncontested winner of this year's Razzie, Bloodrayne.
Save yourself on looking for the thread, it was garbage.
Still to come though are:
SpyHunter - IMDB Link
Starting:
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Director:
John Woo.
Story:
"Dwayne Johnson stars as Alec Sects, an ex-fighter pilot recruited to join a secret government unit called the "Spy Hunters." As one would expect, the Spy Hunters are equipped with experimental super-cars tricked out with all sorts of high-tech weaponry and state-of-the-art countermeasures."
Links:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8016
Comments:
Not alot is known about this film, only that it could be released this year, though IMDB has it as 2007. Woo is working on a video game right now, so it could be true.
DOA: Dead or Alive - IMDB Link
Starting:
Devon Aoki
Sarah Carter (Who?)
Collin Chou (Better known as "Seraph" from the Matrix)
Director:
Corey Yuen - Made Jet Li's "The Enforcer".
Story:
"The movie adaptation of the best selling video game series Dead or Alive."
Err, you can call that a story...
Pictures:
http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/10334/Dead-or-Alive-Movie-Pictures/
Comments:
Safe to say, it's looking bad. Mortal Kombat Redux.
*Silent Hill - IMDB Link
Starting:
Radha Mitchell - "Man on Fire", "Pitch Black".
Director:
Christophe Gans
Story:
"Rose cannot accept the knowledge that her daughter Sharon is dying of a fatal disease. Over the protests of her husband, she flees with her child, intending to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, she ends up driving through a portal in reality, which takes her to the eerie and deserted town of Silent Hill. Sharon disappears in Silent Hill, and Rose follows what she thinks is her daughter's silhouette all over town. It's soon clear the town is not like any place she's ever been."
Links:
Director's Interview
Still of Pyramidhead (from movie)
Comments:
I really am waiting for this movie, I'm a huge fan of the series, and this is looking real good. If you read the interview you can clearly see that the director is a hardcore fan, and has done everything possible to keep the film as true to the source as possible while making this not just another Resident Evil, but a real story with belivable characters.
Quote: "One guarantee that fans can have, is that it's much easier to adapt Doom, even if it is a disaster, as we've seen a month before, then adapt Silent Hill. If you want to adapt Silent Hill, and you're not ready to face all of the complexity of the story, it's just too much. For a lazy director, like the one who directed Doom, simply Silent Hill would be too big of a piece to swallow. I dreamed of adapting this game when I first started playing Silent Hill six years ago. I prepared myself for six years to do this job, knowing that every fan in the world would wait for me with an axe. I will be sniped when I go to buy my games at my favorite store if I do a bad job. And I understand that, I'm a fan of the game myself...I admire the work of Akira and his friends, and I feel very much like someone who joined the group and tried to transport that amazing piece of art into a different medium."
Oh, and click on the still link!
Resident Evil: Extinction - IMDB Link
Starting:
Sienna Guillory (Jill Valentine)
Milla Jovovich
Director:
Russell Mulcahy - "Highlander"
Story:
"It will be set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun with mutant zombies. The film will play in the Nevada desert with the Aussie outback standing in for the American wasteland. The third film will likely to set up the fourth installment, in which the action shifts to Japan."
Comments: If this comes close to RE:1, it should be a good B-Horror movie. If it follows RE:2, then it's doomed. (Get it?)
Ok, I'll search for more later, you guys post any you know of.
