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Could Roger Avary make the first truly great video game adaptation? He certainly has the right property!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I remember the very first time I saw a computer as something other than a boring word processor. As a kid I was at a family friend's house and their folks had a computer that had more than Pong on it. It had CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN.
I remember that blew my mind, followed by DOOM blowing my mind in that I could play with other people... on different computers! Holy shit!
SILENT HILL producer Samuel Hadida has the rights to RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN and he's given the property to Roger Avary to write and direct.
I'll be talking to Avary very soon about this property. I'd expect we'll see WW2 crazy tongue-in-cheek horror/sci-fi/action. Now, that's the kind of flick I'd like to see.
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Avary has yet to impress me. You know, beyond that I kinda did Pulp Fiction thing.
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Here's hoping the movie can be the same.
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Would be HALO. Peter Jackson, get off your ass and just direct it.
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quake!
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Provided the director sticks to the first person shooter perspective, this should ROCK. Now if only Uwe Boll was available.
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Wolfenstein is another great game property. This sounds much better than that hacky Driver shite he was attatched to a while back.
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I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin.'
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Check out the BMW commercials from (I think) 2002. Especially the one with James Brown vs. Gary Oldman as the Devil.
Clive Owen was "The Driver" in each of them from 01 to 02. I think the best one was "Beat the Devil." -
Has anyone seen this "Viva Viagra" commercial? At 1:25am it's actually the most entertaining thing on television at the moment.
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Silent Hill. And they already fucked that up.
And how can you think Wolfenstein would make a good movie? Look people, just because you had fun playing an old nostalgic game doesn't mean it would make any sense as a movie. That's like a Pong or Centipede movie or something.
Also, if someone were to video tape someone playing through Silent Hill 2, and edit it down to two hours of the most important stuff, you would have a movie better than 90% of Hollywood movies - including the Silent Hill movie.
Gah! Choking on my own rage here. I have to go lie down. -
is this still happening? anyone else love bret easton ellis and roger avary's rules of attraction take? i thought it was great
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Return To Castle Wolfenstein has a glorious multiplayer mode, the single player is good enough but it's the multiplayer game that rules. It's too bad everyone left RTCW for Enemy Territory, which is a good game, but RTCW owns it. Bring on a Castle Wolfenstein/RTCW adaptation because I still remember playing the former way back in 1990 and being blown away by it. I remember that you had to press either 'enter' or 'spacebar' as you walked along the wall to find hidden passageways. Damn I getting nostalgic.
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Heh, not at all! Sounds interesting, loved the way he handled Silent Hill - go for it http://tinyurl.com/2bj7n8
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A female pirate and a priest running around hacking up 19th-century harpies and zombies? That is all I care about.
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Ah man, the C64 version of that game was da bomb.
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"I think this town may be haunted!"Wow, great dialog there, Avary. Cant wait to see you jazz up the next video game adaptation with similar grade-A material.
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with the influx of cash Avary made from "Beowulf", he bought the rights to "Glamorama" for life. He's very stubborn about casting Kip Pardue, though, and that's why financing isn't materializing.
I hope that the next time AICN interviews Avary, they inquire about the status of the ROA spin-off film of sorts, "Glitterati", which is done.
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...To seeing a feature length "Werewolf Women of the SS".
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The direction, cinematography, the production design, the prosthetics, some of the acting, all good. The script was balls. I enjoyed the film immensely, as long as people kept their mouths shut.
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...ahh, I loved my N64...
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Are you serious? Is there going to be puke/rape jokes in a Wolfenstein film? How about a brilliant scene where two lame-ass actors (who now no longer have careers thank Christ) walk toward each other in a pathetically produced, shit house split-screen shot that drags on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever... How depressing - the "shit rollercoaster" rolls ever on! Why don't they just fist-fuck my dreams of a brilliant hardcore Wolfenstein film (one that actually lives up to the cool of the game) and just give Wolfenstein to Paul WS Anderson and let him fuck it up from the get go. Avary sucks! Fuck you Avary - you fuckin' suck! Your fifteen minutes of shit house fame should've ended the second you walked away from Tarantino after accepting the Oscar for Best Screenplay. You suck Avary!
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was making sure that no stupid, clunky line was cut. Give me a reason not to regard him as the Pete Best of screenwriting, or at least tell me which section of his conspicuously massive Wikipedia page I should read first.
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That alone earns him respect. However, THE RULES OF ATTRACTION is one of the most underrated films of all time - great script, superb directing. Granted, SILENT HILL wasn't anything special (and that exposition scene near the end was pretty terrible), but it looked great, captured the eerie atmosphere of the game perfectly, and was generally one of the better game-to-screen adaptations (although that isn’t saying much). Roger Avary is a legend; I just hope he actually takes this material somewhere interesting.
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Avery messed it up. The script was terrible. And mind you that Gans has not yet made a GREAT film yet, they all look good but his direction is majorly flawed. I was so surpriced that the film was as much of a let down as it was, considering Avery wrote it. I love Killing Zoe and Rules of Attraction.
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Honestly all you really have to do to be faithful to the game is to just follow the storyline: Main character becomes a POW in a fucked up Nazi castle (which doubles as a testing lab). He escapes, and discovers the Nazis are working on resurecting the undead and making robotic soldiers. Final fight involves main dude vs. Hitler in the Nazi Robot Battle Armor. As a nod to fans, have Hitler's guts spill out at multiple angles in slow motion. Pure gold!
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This should be done dead-straight or not at all.
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I'm not a troll on these boards. Usually I only speak up if I think I have something constructive, but JESUS! They had just been attacked by zombies or ghosts or whatever inhabits the town and someone says "They say this town might be haunted". At another point they are searching a burned down building for some records and another character says "I hear this place was destroyed by a fire". I might not be remembering it correctly as I only saw it once in the theater. Anyway, props to Gans for a great job directing that flick. English isn't his first language - he couldn't have known how bad the dialogue was.
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He obviously cares deeply about the source material and wants to tackle it from an interesting, unexpected direction. It's not like it's some hidden secret as to how to make a good video game movie: you just treat it like a real movie.
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Nazis, the undead, a big castle, and giant robo Hitler. How can anyone seriously be against that getting made into a movie? You guys were maybe hoping for Merchant/Ivory to handle this material?
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Don't mess with the N64 - I want a Conker's Bad Fur Day film.
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eh?
you are kidding, i hope? -
"All your givin' me is a mouthfull of greek salad."
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c'mon, its right up his ally...nazis, germans, russians, a name like wolfenstein..
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Reading the title of this article, everyone's mind should clearly jump to Parappa the Rapper. Now that would be a movie.
On a more serious note, someone could probably make a pretty badass game off of the Twisted Metal series. -
we hauled the N64 out of the attic recently and fired up Goldeneye-still great. In my opinion the best multiplayer game EVER. Then again I dont play computer games that much so....
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...an adaption of Yar's Revenge. Russel Crowe could play the guy who designs the "Zorlon Cannon."
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I say bring back the 80's dance movie genre. That would be riveting.
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Then QT can stop pretending that he is going to make a WWII/Dirty Dozen style movie. Inglorious Bastards? Or
Castle Wolfenstein? Decisions decisions... -
The answer to your question is a resounding "NO!" If you've never seen it, don't bother. Just play the games, which are absolutely brilliant and terrifying.
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but still so far away. The main problem I had with it was the lack of tension or any real scares. I think the lack of a good soundtrack hurt it immensely.
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Whoa, this could be cool. I wonder if they'll keep those uber hot female nazi ninjas. Those beeyoches were hella tough to kill.
Damn, I might have to load this one up and play through it again. -
Have any of you that are complaining played Silent Hill 1? I believe Gans and Roger were only making it specifically as a wank fest for the fans. And that included capturing the laughable dialogue in some moments of the game. The "I heard this Town was haunted... I think they were right." Is a straight reference to Harry saying 3/4 through the fucking game after all the shit he's gone through, "No doubt... something is terribly wrong with this town." Something along those lines... As a fanboy of the games, that line cracked me up in the theatre. But granted I think it would've been better for everyone if they didn't take that approach.
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Damn... it's a perfect match. What the hell is taking them so long.
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The 2D, monochromatic game for the Atari XL? Is that really the game you mean?
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I've played very little of the games and therefor hadn't heard those lines before. Anyway, given they were making this movie for mass audiences (like myself) they shouldn't have included stuff like that. If they were gonna make it for the fans, they might as well have packaged this an extra on a special edition game.That being said, I've played Return to Castle Wolfenstein all the way through, several times, and each time, I just get the feel of a B-movie version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade + a few extra demons. Honestly, I never thought it would make a good movie, because of that.
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From the moment Rose awakens in Silent Hill, up until she and Cybil enter the church, the movie was fucking awesome. Everything else sucked, though. Avary really fucked that one up.
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... some of the musical cues just felt wrong. The music itself was great, though. Akira Yamaoka's work is some of the greatest, most eerie-spooky-moody shit I've ever heard in horror of any medium. Some of the tracks rank right up there with Tubular Bells, Carpenter's Halloween theme, and Goblin's Suspiria soundtrack, for me. It's absolutely pitch-perfect.
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http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Reviews/YarsRevenge/Docs/WS-Yar.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ1Qg-Ny75g
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None of this 3-D FPS stuff! Give me the mid-80s Apple IIE days of desperately hurling your shrinking supply of grenades at SS who are impervious to bullets and snagging schnapps and liebfraumilch from the treasure chests!
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...with an Isla, She-wolf of the SS sequel.
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Ilsa even had a character in it called Wolfe.
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...of Attraction, this bums me out. Let's see Glamorama, or a film adaptation of a basically plotless C64 game??Call me nuts, but I'm going with Glamorama. Even though I wasn't terribly crazy about the book, I'd still like to see how Avary handles it. As I think there's enough there for a pretty crazy movie. More than a plotless C64 game, at least...
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What happened to this getting made, another great game which would make an awesome movie.
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Yeah, Castle Wolfenstein on the Motorola 6502 Apple ][ kicked all sorts of @ss. Now all they need is Uwe to direct a Hard Hat Mack or Karateka movie.
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And I want Zach Snyder to direct it and Gerard Butler to star! "THIS...IS...BLACK MESA!!!!" KA-BOOM!!!
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Is that what COLVERFIELD really is??? No. But, heheh, maybe! No, but in all seriously, I effing LOVED that game when I was a wee lad. I got the ATARI emulation for the PS2 and it rulez! Seriously, if you don't have that ATARI collection for the PS2, its great. You could prolly get it for like $5 in a bin at yr local Gaming Shoppe.
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I'm assuming, yes? The game music is amazing. I love that dark ambient kinda schtuff. Spooky! Very David Lynch-y... some Neubauten sprinkles for the "Oh God, I'm Fucked" Demonattack type music... Effing great games... (But RE4 pwns them all!)
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I agree with topaz4206, these genre films have to get away from the fucking slapstick, tongue-in-cheek shit. Hollywood just DOESN'T get it.
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Metroid.
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Someone needs to make a full length of the mind-blowing ATARI 2600 RPG -- ADVENTURE. You know, the one where you play a square who carries an arrow with which to fight Giant Duck Dragons? Who wasn't thrilled when they found the "microdot" that unlocked the secret area? Someone needs to make a movie of this; and keep it true to the original graphics -- in fact, just shoot the graphics as is and dub in dialogue. I nominate Peter "I Guess My Career Really IS Over After The KING KONG Debacle" Jackson to shoot it. He could take that 20 minute game and easily stretch it out to a mind-numbingly boring 4 or 5 hours.
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You know, some plausible suggestions to go with the (literally) 2-bit suggestions.
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It's great stuff! I own all the soundtracks. I listen to it at night before going to bed so I might get some interesting dreams and so far... no, nothing yet...
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roger avary is whack. true. he gets much respect for 'pulp fiction' and 'killing zoe'. but his output since then has been purely unwatchable. 'rules of attraction' was ludicrously overacted and directed (yet heavily breathed on by this site). and 'silent hill' was truly boring. bag on len wiseman all you want, but i'd watch 'underworld' 1,000 times before i watched 'silent hill' again...
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That game had quite a few neat ideas.
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Hell, yeah! I wasn't as into Hart Hat Mack, but, yeah, I remember that one too. I also really dug Airheart, Jumpman, and - of course - old school Lode Runner.
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