It's only partly the healthy skepticism with which we've learned to regard any impending game-to-film adaptation, though our "video game history month" game movies feature on the front page as I type, lays out that genre's chequered past pretty neatly.
But that's compounded by the screenwriter "in talks" to pen the script, Mark Protosevich. This is the writer behind the sub-par movie adaptation of I Am Legend, one of my favourite books.
Far be it from me to hold a grudge--and studio meddling may well have warped what started as a kickass screenplay--but it makes me nervous, that's all I'm saying.
*For the record, I mined every minable planet on the galaxy map. Where's my parade (achievement)?