THQ's Danny Bilson revealed in an interview with CVG that Red Faction is slated to get the motion picture treatment. It's all part of what THQ is calling their "trans-media" strategy to developing franchises:
"My game is going to get made either way but what I do is I'm giving these movie guys the opportunity to meet me two or three years at the end with a triple-A, awesome game and a triple-A, awesome movie that compliment each other - and certainly don't repeat each other - and start to build a world and a fiction and all of that."
I'm all in favor of convergence, provided that the forms it takes are all of a relatively even level of quality. Red Faction is a pretty damn good series of games with an excellent setting that could transition well into film. If THQ is really serious about doing this right, as Bilson would have us believe, there's a lot of potential here.
Red Faction movie in the works [CVG]
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11:20 AM on 04.02.2010
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I hope THQ do it correct, because video game movies have a bad rep.
Kinda' like the Halo movie? Kinda' like the Zelda movie? Or Metroid movie?
...yeah, I thought so too.
To the average movie-goer, buildings being destroyed and holes being dug aren't really anything new or exciting. Obviously digging holes is even boring.
I suppose the story concept could make for a decent film, but will anybody really care? The series if popular, but not that popular. Still, good to see THQ at least seems to want to do things the right way, if there is even a right way to convert game to film.
Not so sure there is.
Now, when was the last "triple-A" GAME movie? Yeah...
EternalDeathSlayer hit the nail right on the head. What made the games had nothing to do with setting or story. It's the fact that the Red Faction titles tend to be the very best break-shit simulators on the market.
By putting the Red Faction name on a movie, we have yet another example of some stuffed shirt who thinks we're stupid enough to pay them ten bucks to sit through a two-hour commercial.
Try this one on for size, Bilson. Why don't you and your marketing team get your heads out of your asses and spend that same time effort and cash on -making another fucking game- genius?
Just because your IP gets optioned doesn't mean a movie is really "in the works". I wonder how solid this project really is. It would take a pretty massive budget to do the film right, and even so, the plot could still fall flat.