Lost Planet film budget is out of control, will pull U.S. out of economic crisis

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.

[Via CHUD]