While Resident Evil isn't my favorite game-turned-film (that honor goes to Silent Hill), I certainly enjoyed the first film enough to speak positively of it after seeing it. Not being obsessed with Resident Evil however, I'm sure many details that would have annoyed fans of the series flew over my head. Sadly, the tough chick tactic worked flawlessly on me -- I thought Milla was a badass and I wanted more of that.
Apparently, I wasn't alone on that, as the Resident Evil films did well enough in theaters to make Capcom decide they wanted more opportunities to squeeze money out of their fans. Capcom's president, Haruhiro Tsujimoto, has revealed that the company is chatting it up with Hollywood studios and recieved several offers at the recent Cannes Film Festival.
Tsujimoto also said "We want to do with games what Marvel did with comics" in reference to all the popular films based on Marvel characters.
We already know about Street Fighter and Onimusha, although the latter hasn't made it to production yet. Bloomberg Television, the source for the Tsujimoto quotes, directly mentions Devil May Cry, but Tsujimoto did not specify that a film based on that game would be made. My mind wanders directly to Mega Man. I hope I'm alone in that ... I'm not sure I ever want to see a real guy dressed in that little blue suit.
[Via Gamasutra]
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10:34 AM on 05.23.2008
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If they don't hurry up with trying to get Takashi's schedule open for a Onimusha movie, you'll have him being too old or something. Either way, I want a Onimusha movie NAOW.
Resident Evil...not so much. The first movie was the only [i]passable[/b] movie to me. 2 and 3 were pretty bad. I thought it was pretty obvious another RE movie was coming on how they ended it.
Megaman...make it a hot ass CG, change it to the Jap name Rockman, and we're good.
Oh, and they already made a Mega Man/Devil May Cry movie. They call it Casshern.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to shoot myself in the face.
http://www.destructoid.com/bioshock-to-rock-the-big-screen--85251.phtml
No disrespect, just curious.
Seriously, I think it could work. Although I suppose it might work better as an anime movie or something like that.
Hopefully they would not consider 1942 since we already have as much ww2 movies as the fps genre. Final Fight could be really entertaining if they made it something like this....
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Ze-xQoEfOU
A definite yes! to a real life Mega Man movie. Vin Diesel as Mega Man.
You nailed it and won the deathprize. You will be missed.
@The-Excel
Hell yeah. Zack and Wiki animated would be fun.
@Roody
Pheonix Wright as an old school Disney 2D epic would be full of win. Or live action even. That could work . . .
Damnit when I saw this story I was going to post that exact image. Worst video game box art for one of the best games ever :/
I second that notion.
Starring Milla Jovovich.
NATALIE PORTMAN IS KID ICARUS!
As for what Capcom game should be made into a movie, I have but two words: Viewtiful Joe.
Dawn of the Dead.
I second that notion.[/i]
Thirded!
In other news: How about movies based on games that don't have silly plots/background stories. (I'm one of the few who liked the RE movies despite finding the games lacking in almost every department...Yes, I know the movies were dumb. But they had Milla.) Suggestions for cool game-related movies: Mechwarrior/Battletech, Deus Ex, Grim Fandango...all starring Milla. I don't care how you do it. Just, you know, DO IT!
"You know what would be awesome? If the one chick, like, totally snapped a zombie's neck by twisting it!"
"Yeah! And we could seriously have the other chick kill some monster by backflipping off of a motorcycle and shooting the gas tank!"
"Brainstorm: what if we gave the main character psychic powers!?!?"
And the scene where Nemesis remembers his humanity (or some other blather) and saves Alice was probably the most cliched and falsely sentimental thing they could have done with the movie.
Sure, let these guys ruin even more game franchises with their mega awesome adaptations in movie form.
Nobody will ever make a good movie based off of a game. NEVER.
What's the point?
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