I just wrote about how I am starting to be entertained with movies again the other day, no more movie rip-off plots. Turns out, I was wrong. I just read an article of video game movies in production and who working on them. Uwe Boll is haunting my dreams already. Here'sthe list of the moviesalong with who's on-board:
1. Prince of Persia (Jerry Bruckheimer; Disney)
2. Army of Two (Scott Burns, writer of The Bourne Ultimatum)
3. BioShock (Gore Verbinski, producing, director of Pirates of the Caribbean)
4. Dante's Inferno (Eric Newman, producer of Children of Men)
5. Dead Space (DJ Caruso, director of Disturbia and Eagle Eye)
6. Gears of War (Len Wisemen, director of Live Free or Die Hard and Underworld; Chris Morgan, writer of Wanted and Fast and Furious)
7. God of War (Charles Roven, producer of The Dark Knight; David Self, writer of Road to Perdition)
8. Halo (possibly)
9. InFamous (Avi Arad)
10. Lost Planet (Avi Arad)
11. Mass Effect (Avi Arad)
12. The Sims (John Davis, producer of Norbit and Eragon)
13. Uncharted (Avi Arad)
14 World of Warcraft (Sam Raimi, director of Spiderman)
Some of this is ridiculous. The Sims!? How can you make a game on something the player controls and they don't even speak ENGLISH!!! Basically the same thing with InFamous, where you alter the story by the way you play, and World of Warcraft.
Games like Uncharted, Mass Effect, Dead Spaceand God of War sound OK, but they won't stick to the game's real plot, thus failing will occur.
I am alos surprised they had to wait for the game to come up with a Dante's Inferno movie. That would havemade a great movie by itself.
Anyway, tell me what you think.