Why Square Enix Is Making a Thief Movie

All of the great IPs that Square-Enix has at their disposal, and they choose to make a movie out of Thief? Thief?! Why would they think that a Thief movie has the slightest possibility of succeeding? I know they want to shore up their Thief franchise, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter what the company wants, it's what their customers want, and nobody was clamoring for a Thief movie. This has fail written all over it.

(Sigh) Crono, Marle, and Lucca are chomping at the bit to get out there and show the world how a video-game story could work as a film, and Square-Enix just keeps them shackled in a back room, completely neglected. They should just sell the rights to Chrono to Disney if they aren't going to do anything with it themselves. Disney, at least, might understand the cinematic potential of the franchise.

The new thief was the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull of the thief series. It was so violating of the original source material, so foreign, that I wasn't even angry when finished the tedious, uninspired experience. It's simply not a Thief game. This is a sad attempt to get people interested in franchise that had its gameplay, world building, and storytelling gutted to try for "mass appeal"

i would be interested if the next game is 3rd person.

Well now this is good news!!! And the bad news - movie based on a director who made hitman movie O M F G

The fact that these numbnuts think Thief can be turned into a movie confirms that they have no idea what this franchise is actually all about and what made it great before they got their greedy hands on it. I expected no less after the atrocity of the last game. Pandering to brain dead millennials is slowly killing all forms of creative expression.

The should focus on getting a developer that makes a new thief game that doesn't suck before they turn it into a mediocre movie.

Tbh if game companies want to make movies they should stick to cgi movies. I find them more interesting and truer to the original source.

Maybe they should make a Thief game that doesnt suck before they tackle something this big....

Money, DUH!

Instead of making a game which doesnt suck they rather advertise a shitty game with a shitty movie. There should be laws against the rape of franchises.

I found the last Thief game so lacking.

Dishonored was so much better.

Give me a break. There's only one reason a company wants to do anything : they think they can drive revenue with it and rake in some profit. All other concerns, no matter how noble, are secondary.

Thief wouldn't translate well to the big screen, who wants to see a frail guy hiding in the shadows to steal some loot. But then they would turn him into a ninja assassin of course. There are other LG greats that would work better, like Terra Nova or System Shock.

A more polished game than the last one would too help the franchise appeal to a greater audience. Man that was a rough one.

Long live Thief's original trilogy: 1-3

No I don't want a Thief movie. Not unless it is animated, made by the creators of the original games (especially 1-2) - and features Stephane Russell as Garret's voice actor! !!

Tif taffing taffers

If they made a movie based on the first game it would be great, just great. Burricks, hammers and all. Of course they won't do that and the movie will suck more than the last game

The first two Thief games are still among my favorite games of all time... I just hope Eidos Montreal doesn't continue to befoul the great memories with their version of 'Teef"

I came to voice my displeasure, but am happy to see so many already have. It is very pleasing to see there are still a lot of supporters of the original (and superior) games.

Because they're stupid

Duh

Make a FF movie. Not an animated one but with real actors. Why Thief? Who is seriously going to "dive in" to this thing?

Or you could just not make a shitty Thief game and then try to make a movie to make up for how fucking terrible the game was and likely is a precursor to how terrible the movie will be.

Thief did not appeal to a wider audience because it sucked

Something made for good video game so will make for good movie is a line of thinking without a logical foundation. Sony entertainment division has been on a losing streak for a long time now.

Game based movies normally cash in on success and brand name where as "Thief" is not part of current game culture and has not been for some time. Flogging a dead horse here unless this movie is uncommonly good which would be a huge shock. The only plus side to doing this is that there is no fan base to piss off so you get a free reign to do pretty much what you want. Maybe they found an screenplay that they thought hay this is good and it is kind of the right genre, why don't we slap the thief brand name on it?

SMDH

I have to go now...

What's with these guys...? If anything the Hitman movies made people turn their nose up at a game with the same name... and the last Thief game was a pathetic entry in a legendary stealth franchise. Crap movies don't sell good games, and crappy movies definitely don't sell crappy games... so maybe just focus on making your games the best they can be...? Or blow over a hundred million on another generic Hollywood flop... either or I guess!

Not into the Thief series, so doesn't really matter to me, but I hate all these companies making movies based on their games.

"We haven't made a bad movie in a while, we figured it was time."

Weird. The original games were really good.

I hear the new one isn't great so I never played it. Maybe that's the actual problem.

Make the game not suck! Bam! Wider audience! You know what's not fun? Navigating maze-like city streets looking for that one magic window you have to open by mashing a button EVERY TIME to get to the other maze-like city street which may or may not contain your objective.