Word from the Hollywood Reporter is that director Tarsem Singh is set to helm the upcoming science fiction thriller, The Unforgettable. The film's plot involves a cop who, over the course of a murder investigation, realizes that he's not human and becomes entangled in a war between good and evil aliens.
The Warner Bros. Pictures film (originally titled Species X) is based off of a Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment videogame. Can you guess which one? That game is Condemned: Criminal Origins, and it was not about a war between good and evil aliens. Or maybe it was -- I loved that game, but man, it didn't make much sense.
Let's hope that the film adaptation, written by Kurt Sutter (who looks like Fabio and wrote a bunch of episodes of The Shield), will be a bit more coherent. If anything, the film will likely be gorgeous -- director Tarsem Singh is best known for stellar looking music video and commercial work. Singh also directed the visually stunning 2000 film, The Cell, which didn't make too much sense either, now that I think of it.
Oh, well. I guess if we're looking for stupid, easy to understand entertainment, there's always Uwe Boll's Far Cry ... and porno.
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12:10 AM on 08.16.2007
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That game was overrated though. So was F.E.A.R. I don't think Monolith has made a good game since Tron 2.0. I should reinstall that...
Instead, it will take condemened and molest it into something the "movie going non-gamer" public wants to see. (Transformers anyone?)
You forgot about Halo
Hopefully he can do better with this movie though.
I think what really turned me off about Silent Hill was the lack of dialog...It seemed like there was a couple lines during the beginning and the rest was screaming or breathing or silence...Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
I mean I liked the first Resident Evil movie and it seems like everyone despises that movie.
I didn't think it was a great movie or anything, just closest to the original concept. It's not a movie you could really watch over again and enjoy. I mostly just thought it was the closest video game to movie adaptation so far, though I understand that's not really saying much. But, Pyramid Head owned at least.
Also, I agree with you on the first Resident Evil movie. It was actually pretty good since it didn't disclose an exact date or mess with any of the game's storylines/plot. It could have easily fit into RE's canon timeline. But Resident Evil Apocalypse ruined that by making Alice interact with Jill and Carlos, and also having her somehow become super human and eventually beat Nemesis in hand to hand combat. It just ruined the movies ability to fit into the games timeline. Nemesis was pretty awesome, but having Alice beat him the way she did and his unclimatic demise was just lame as hell.
Nice one.
Oh, and it totally sounds like Stephen King got involved in this movie. Can't think of a good ending? Just add aliens.
Check IGN in 2005:
October 5, 2005 - Kurt Sutter, writer on the hit crime-drama TV series The Shield, has been hired by Warner Bros. to draft the script for a new sci-fi movie called Species X which will tie-in with the forthcoming videogame Condemned: Criminal Origins.
And btw, how many times did Stephen King introduce aliens at the end of a story to make a good ending?
Which brings me to my next point: Paul W.S. Anderson.
Rot in hell you douche, first Resident Evil, then AVP (WHICH HE COULDN'T OF FACKING DONE A DIRECT INTERPRETATION OF ONE OF THE DARKHORSE COMICS I DONT KNOW WHY) But now.........Now.......Castlevania.
Simon Belmont will be played by Liza Minnelli
25 december 2007 is your lucky day!
Bye!
"You mean...I'm really a Cylon!"
Needs more ... "You're ghostin' us, motherfucker. I don't care who you are back in the world, you give away our position one more time, I'll bleed ya, real quiet. Leave ya here. Got that?"