While it looks like Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li might have been financed from the change found in the coin box of my local 7-11's Street Fighter II cabinet, it doesn't look like Lost Planet will be getting the same treatment.
In an interview for Capcom's investor relation's Web site, the company's Head of Character Content Business Toshihiro Tokumaru hints that the economic crisis won't be affecting the film.
"Speaking of Lost Planet," he says, "that project will cost somewhere between 150 and 200 million dollars to make. The producer on that project is Avid Arad, producer of Spider-Man."
To put things into perspective, Arad's Spider-Man 3 cost about $260 million to make; RoboCop is estimated to have cost only $13 million, and it's the greatest film ever made.
Tokumaru suggests that the reason they're able to be so ambitious is because they're working with original IPs. This to me seems a bit backwards. Spending $260 million on Spider-Man 3 makes sense because, well ... it's freakin' Spider-Man. And as much I enjoyed Lost Planet, Wayne Holden certainly ain't Peter Parker.
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Contest:
8:20 AM on 01.22.2009 | 
Now I want to see a Robocop sequel.
And I also loved Robocop 2.
But I didn't love Lost Planet.
although with a good director and the right kind of marketing it may be a hit. I dont really see them making their 200 million back though...
either we get an awesome high budget blockbuster, or we get another flopped game adaptation which no one will remember in 6 months.
I liked Lost Planet but im still kinda "meh" to the idea of a film.
Also, Terminator kicks Robocops ass.
Ahem
If Terminator had any lines that were as good as "Bitches. Leave." then maybe you'd have an argument. But it doesn't. So you don't. ;)
man that movie rles.
Capcom should be banned from doing cut scenes for life. They always manage to find terrible voice actors to read through the worst dialogue in gaming history.
As for the whole Robocop vs Terminator... lets see a movie about THAT instead!
Instead, they should invest the $200 million into the technology required to bring Raul Julia back from the dead, and make a proper sequel to the Street Fighter movie.
You won this round Chester...but it ins't over... you haven't seen the last of me!!. *PUFF*
That would indeed be an awesome movie-Idea :-)
Robocop would win against the first terminator though :-p
Darren Aronofsky is set to direct the next Robocop film that is supposed to come out next year. I don't know what to think about the film as it will be a complete reboot and have absolutely nothing to do with the first (totally awesome) film.