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Tom Hardy Signs Up For SPLINTER CELL!!
The Kidd here...
I'm just waiting for Quint to pop on here and say he told us so...
He predicted weeks ago that the video games would be the next group of hot properties that Hollywood started gobbling up, and he's looking like a bit of a prophet these days. After countless failed adaptations over the years, there's a small segment of the creative population starting to take video games seriously as potential tent poles moving forward.
Significant progress has been made in locking up Michael Fassbender for the big screen version of ASSASSIN'S CREED with Ubisoft methodically trying to build up a film division to take advantage of these popular titles, and they're at it again in getting Tom Hardy to sign on the line that is dotted for a big screen adaptation of Tom Clancy's SPLINTER CELL series of games.
Eric Warren Singer (THE INTERNATIONAL and the Black List screenplay AMERICAN BULLSHIT) has been given the nod to pen the script, according to Variety. A search for a director should commence fairly soon, as Ubisoft shops SPLINTER CELL around to the studios with Warner Bros. and Paramount already taking an interest.
Who knows? Maybe if these films start to take off, there is hope yet for a HALO or GEARS OF WAR or BIOSHOCK to finally get off the ground.
-Billy Donnelly
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That's all I've got right this second.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 4:29 p.m. CST
Played the first 2 or 3 installments. Splinter Cell pretty much ruined the Metal Gear games for me. Best spy games ever.
by kidicarus
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It seems the only thing they have is a list signings and nothing else, how can that be?
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Two of my favorite game series of all time with two of the best actors working right now signed on. Thank God the Peter Berg Splinter Cell never got off the ground! I'm assuming they will do a younger, pre-retirement Sam Fisher. Here's hoping for Idris Elba as Lambert and Emily Blunt as Grimmsdottir.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 4:42 p.m. CST
Splinter Cell could actually work as a movie. Most games wouldn't, to be honest.
by MariusXe
God of War for example. Why would I want to watch that, without slaughtering enemies myself? For the story? Bwahahahahahaha... story.
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my daughter leaned over and whispered - Look it's Nathan Drake!
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... absolutely No F#ng interest.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 4:57 p.m. CST
Cedric the Entertainer and Mike Epps for Super Mario Brotha's! Eddie Murphy as Bowser.
by kindofabigdeal
Kevin Hart as Toad. Tyra Banks as Princess Toadstool. Chris Tucker as the voice of Yoshi. Directed by Tyler Perry.
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Jack Black. You know it to be true.
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...HAS TO BE MADE INTO AN EPIC TRILOGY, WITH EFFECTS DONE BY WETA, with same scores used from the games. Kratos: a buff Mads Mikkelsen Gaia: Linda Hunt (voice) who gives a shit that he was in the forgettable Clash of the Titans. -------------------------------------- and a Metal Gear Solid Trilogy.... starring Josh Holloway as Solid Snake. come on hollywood!!!!! FUCKING DO IT!!!!!
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I don't enjoy them and I don't look forward to them. They're a brainless cash grab and they give me a headache. getting excited about video game movies? THAT LOGIC DOES NOT COMPUTE
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mario kart 64, yoshi's island.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 5:10 p.m. CST
More like Taylor Lautner in Clayfighter: The Motion Capture Picture
by kindofabigdeal
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Nov. 14, 2012, 5:11 p.m. CST
Tom Hardy will likely be using Charcoal & Grease "body armor" like he did in Bronson...quite effective.
by JuicyFruit
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Nov. 14, 2012, 5:13 p.m. CST
Joe Carnahan to do a gritty 70's version of Double Dragon. (a la Warriors)
by kindofabigdeal
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Nov. 14, 2012, 5:14 p.m. CST
Stephen Spielberg to do animated motion capture Kirby's Big Adventure!!!
by kindofabigdeal
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Nov. 14, 2012, 5:15 p.m. CST
you're right Kid, I hope these video game movies DO take off!
by Robert Hand
THAT LOGIC DOES NOT COMPUTE!
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Nov. 14, 2012, 5:19 p.m. CST
Quint "predicted" video games would be the next group of hot properties?
by loafroaster
Assassin's Creed has been in the pipeline for at least a year. Plus this movie. Hardly a 'group' of hot properties. There's never been a lull in video game-to-movies, they've been churning out stuff (like the latest installments of RE and Silent Hill) for ages.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 5:22 p.m. CST
Video game movies are all of a sudden "potential tent poles"
by loafroaster
So the likes of Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia were low-budget, straight-to-video affairs?
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"Plus this movie. Hard(l)y a 'group' of hot properties." Your welcome. Unless you think it's retarded, in which case, I'm sorry.
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They've recast Michael Ironside in the new Splinter Cell game with Eric Johnson (Whitney from Smallville). Not only does this continue the ridiculous de-aging of Fisher with every new game it also means he's not going to have Ironside's awesome voice. Hardy is a much better choice, maybe there's still time to recast the game...
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...or not.
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I want..
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You fail to realise that mgs was never really a spy/intrigue game, it was basically one big anime story told with a sense of topicality and real world politics. You might as well compare the bond films with tinker tailor soldier spy.
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ONLY if they did it more like Apocolypso where it is almost no dialogue. Terry Gilliam directing...WETA SFX...no name teen in the lead...
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That comes later.
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The cat can't act . I'm all for a movie version of Assassin's Creed, if it's done with a top notch script and director. But I was all for a Resident Evil movie too (and look how that turned out...) Bringing in that hack would take us down the same shit covered path that was X-Men First Crap. Please God NO
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Nov. 14, 2012, 6:22 p.m. CST
Tom Hardy to play Batman in JL movie!!! (mind = blown)
by kindofabigdeal
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Nov. 14, 2012, 6:23 p.m. CST
Where is the guy who want's Armie Hammer in everything???
by kindofabigdeal
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I know what the hell am I expecting for Hollywood to cast anyone over the age of 50 in an action role. But The Character model has always looked like George Clooney to me.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 6:42 p.m. CST
Never played the Splinter Cell games...have no attachment to this announcement yet.
by Sean
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When did video games stop becoming a haven for film adaptations?
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TV is going through a second golden age, while feature film studios turn out total crap. A trend of videogames as source material is just another gimmick, and would likely only continue the plunge. Plus, without Ironside, no one wants to see Splinter Cell.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 7:03 p.m. CST
They just wanted to wait for some nostalgia to settle in plus Skyfalls success doesn't hurt.
by DrPain
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Nov. 14, 2012, 7:09 p.m. CST
First three SC games are wonderful ... Atmospheric and intelligent, for some reason when the next gen arrived they decided it needed more shooting. Damn shame.
by GINGE_MUPPET
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I've always wanted to use exclamation points on this site.
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I guess Half-Life has died as a movie? Bringing Aliens forth from another dimension probably is a boring story idea now. Too bad cuz I thought the Earth-occupied idea in Half-Life 2 was legitimately worthy.
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Comics are well known for their narrative. A lot of the films borrow bits and pieces from famous comic works. A lot of the Batman films borrowed from Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns. A comic sells you on its story and visuals. A game sells you on its gameplay and the story is an after thought. That isn't saying their aren't games out there that have great stories. Assassins Creed will make a fine film. Something like Castlevania though which gets tossed around though will not. There are a couple of nuggets out there that can translate to great films but I can count all of those on my fingers using both hands.
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You aren't Joss Whedon. Stop trying to turn a turn of phrase. None of you are any good at it.
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If Disney/Lucasfilm can't bring us a new Indy Jones flick, I'd gladly spend my money to see the adventures of Nathan Drake on the big screen. Done right, it could be a HUGE franchise.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 8:43 p.m. CST
Big SC fan myself...just hope Hardy plays it out as the Fisher character!
by Linguo_IS_Dead
He doesn't exactly look like the character, but with proper aging making and acting, he could pull it off.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 8:46 p.m. CST
I recently saw "THIS MEANS WAR" during a long flight...
by Linguo_IS_Dead
Hardy was actually pretty awesome during his "sneaking" and fighting scenes. That's pobably what got him the role. He was "Sam Fishering" it up!
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They know how to direct the type of silent, tension-filled action that a SC movie would (hopefully) revolve around.
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Uh, guys...this horse is dead. Please stop beating it.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:40 p.m. CST
Half-Life-The Movie.The lead actor doesn't have to memorize lines or emote in any way at all...GOLD!
by nephilim138
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Nov. 14, 2012, 9:42 p.m. CST
The studios are so desperate for 'known' properties...
by Orbots Commander
...that they're dragging this old hound out now for another round of beatings. Seriously, think back, video game movies have been around since the 80s, and they've almost never worked. Why start now? Free advice to studios: just use your library cards and find a good book, or series of books to adapt.
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But can Roger Avery pull it off?
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Gone are the days when story was an after thought. You need only look at The Mass Effect series, Red Dead Redemption, or a dozen other titles, where not only are the stories in today's good an coherent, but most are BETTER then today's blockbuster movies. Take the Mass effect trilogy. This series has probably been the greatest work of science fiction in the past 10 years. and no film maker has successfully created an entire universe like this since early Lucas, and Roddenberry.
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that is the most jizzworthy news I've heard this year! Splinter Cell + Tom Hardy = a fucking impossibly awesome Splinter Cell movie with Tom Hardy in it! and the best part....Tom Hardy is in it!!!!!!!!!! He breaks necks and slices throats like no one else can. Love his fierce physicality. Looking forward to seeing his take on Mad Max. Oh and those other games, Bioshock, Gears of War, even Assasin's Creed can suck my balls. Splinter Cell is Bourne with cajones.
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was already made and it was called Act of Valor and no one cared.
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Video Game Musicals will take over Broadway! Like that Simba video game that did so well. . . I'm thinking Bioshock will be life-altering with that chorus of prepubescent girls.
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Nov. 14, 2012, 11:45 p.m. CST
"Emily Watson for Metroid" - Samus as an 45 year old woman?
by TheKiller7
I bet you meant EMMA WATSON instead of Emily Watson. But then again you're an ignorant troll.
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Why have people started to say this suddenly? We have always been moving forward.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 1:28 a.m. CST
As long as they don't get Trick Trick to perform the rap song that recaps the entire movie during the credits, I'm game
by Anacott_Steel
Seriously, if you haven't seen "Alex Cross" but know what will inevitably happen, please hear this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr3_vnDWCtA&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLOTmaE2TVpktNEcVhf0EE0w Getting Tom Hardy to star was great, but please keep Rob Cohen and Trick Trick away from this.
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Much like Aaron Eckhardt after his participation in the epic blockbuster "megahit" The Dark Knight, Tom Hardy has nowhere to go but down. Conversely, 2012 seems to be the peak of what's known as "The Year of Joseph Gordon-Levitt", Michael Caine will always be known as "Alfred" by the Twitter Generation, Morgan Freeman will continue to collect paychecks with the minimum amount of effort required, and Anne "my short haircut makes me look like a 13 year old boy and retroactively destroys all sex appeal I ever had" Hathaway, who I'm sure will be great on Broadway.. but Christian? He'll endure.
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...nice combination between serious and funny. Sam: Give me some intelligence or you'll be pushing up daisies in a graveyard full of guys just like you. Guard: I don't have any intelligence! Sam: Hey. You just called yourself stupid. or Sam: I'm going inside to meet your friends... Is their anything I need to worry about? Guard: They have guns! Sam: I'm shocked and amazed... I hope they keep this kind of stuff in the movie
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Since I seem to be in a mood to post this morning. How about Onimusha? I think THAT shit handled with care could be an insane film. Samurai and demons. C'mon. That shit would rule done correctly. B
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Nov. 15, 2012, 5:25 a.m. CST
Part of the appeal of the Sam Fisher character is because..
by Aidil_Afham
he's a cold war vet, been doing the sneaky ninja thing from way back, and was asked to come out of retirement to serve the nation, without that glory and patriotism bullshit (which I fear they would change to appeal to the American Fuck Yeah audience) It was great seeing him trying on high tech gadgets, being an OG and all. At least this was the premise early on, now they cater to the mainstream dudebros that just wanna shoot everything instead of being a fucking ghost. So anyways, I don't know how they'll deal with his age, Sam Fisher is more of a George Clooney, Bruce Willis badassery, Tom Hardy is young. I'm cautiously optimistic..
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Nov. 15, 2012, 6:03 a.m. CST
HUGE revelation that they're looking into the video game market for movie ideas...
by Skankardly
I don't know if it's been done. Super Mario Bros. Double Dragon Street Fighter Mortal Kombat Mortal Kombat: Annihilation Wing Commander Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Resident Evil Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life House of the Dead Resident Evil: Apocalypse Alone in the Dark Doom BloodRayne Silent Hill DOA: Dead or Alive Postal Resident Evil: Extinction Hitman In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale Far Cry Max Payne Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Tekken Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Resident Evil: Afterlife Resident Evil: Retribution Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
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Nov. 15, 2012, 7:11 a.m. CST
If Tom Hardy is down than I'll check it out. But if you're doing Splinter Cell can I please get Metal Gear Solid?
by Wcwlkr
I've never played Splinter Cell but I did think it looked cool. But I freaking love METAL GEAR you've got to give me one of those.
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ha ha ha ha... oh wait, you're serious?
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Superhero movies will be next big thing.
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I'm not gay for Tom Hardy, like not even a little.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 9:29 a.m. CST
Imagine the face mapping of actors in LA Noire done to avatar and beyond levels with A-list actors
by UltraTron
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Nov. 15, 2012, 9:30 a.m. CST
Who wouldn't rather play a new bladerunner that actually stars Harrison ford in virtual young body? Well some of you would whine but I wouldn't mind
by UltraTron
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Nov. 15, 2012, 9:31 a.m. CST
In fact too many of you whine about shit that has no bearing on the world while Ron Paul walks out shaking his head
by UltraTron
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But MGS on PS2 had a fair bit of sneaking around and being stealthy, especially early on. That's what I was comparing it to. The story in MG is over-the-top ridiculous in a way only the Japanese could do, but it's great. I just think the stealthy aspect of the game was handled far, far better in Splinter Cell than MG.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:20 a.m. CST
Halo has horrible designs when it's not ripping off sci fi movies
by NotEnoughBiehn
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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:21 a.m. CST
Shouldn't we be seeing more than cars from the new Mad Max??
by kstewandthecuntsman
Seriously, when is that movie due to come out? Nothing with Hardy in it yet? I mean, we saw the wigger dude in that shitty Robocop suit, and that's been pushed back to 2019 or some shit. ( Never saw the dude in the Killing, but people on here have descibed his character as a "wigger", so relax).
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FACT! Very similar storyline, just exchange "Forerunners" with "Engineers" and you've pretty much got the same thing. Except Halo has been building on these themes and this 'verse for 11 years. I think if any game is going to break out and be the first one to show hollywood and audiences it can make a great movie, it'll be Halo.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:32 a.m. CST
HARDY IS A FAGGOT WHOSE LIPS LOOK THEY HAVE A CONSTANT CASE OF "COCKSUCKERS CRAMP"!!!FACT!!!
by CreepyThinManForever
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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:32 a.m. CST
I'M NOT BIG ON HALO; JUST SEEMS LIKE A GENERIC SCI-FI SHOOTER TO ME!!!FACT!!!
by CreepyThinManForever
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Thats the biggest problem with the series. Take Halo 4, for example. First time I beat it (launch day), I had a hard time following all of the story. Sure, I understood all the Cortana stuff, but the rest was a bit murky (and I'm a huge Halo fan). Upon subsequent playthroughs, you can find the hidden terminals which unlock videos you can watch online in halo waypoint, a separate (free) app for the xbox. So i have to go out of my way to unlock these backstory videos and then i can't even watch them IN THE GAME, i have to start a separate program to do that? Bullshit. (of course i did it though) The sad part is, it's a great story! It should have been front and center, not an easter egg in the game!! Do they assume we just want to kill aliens and don't bother us with story? Perhaps for the majority it is, but hiding what could be your greatest selling point (especially to casual or non-halo fans, like creepythinmanforever) is not going to attract new fans to the brand! It just cements that idea that halo is a generic boring sci-fi shooter. Sadly, i guess for those who don't have the maniacal drive to seek out all these hidden gems, it probably is just that :(
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Nov. 15, 2012, 12:15 p.m. CST
Always thought Escape From New York would make a great sandbox style game. The only problem is,
by openthepodbaydoorshal
to be fair to the character, Snake wouldn't give a shit about any side missions.
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1) video game adaptations 2) robots & cyborgs 3) kaiju / anime / Japanese culture 4) space opera (we're kind of into this now, but it might explode once Star Wars Episode IV is upon us) 5) 2nd rate superheroes (Marvel gotta eat!)
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The other day I was actually trying to imagine what an open-world Grand Theft Auto style They Live game would be like. It would be a sequel to the movie, called They Live Again. You'd play as a new character, choosing either a Roddy Piper dude with a mullet or a bald black guy of course. Then you'd run around the city, eventually getting some shades that allow you to see the hidden world in black & white. The game would be a lot like most sandbox games. You'd go on various missions for the resistance movement, and would eventually penetrate the inner sanctum of the aliens. Or maybe you'd get to go to their homeworld or another world they conquered via that interstellar teleportation device that we saw in the film. Health power ups would be packs of bubblegum. You could also go back to your hideout and watch John Carpenter movies on a shitty little tube TV, or surf the channels and depending on if your character is wearing his shades, see regular TV or the alien transmissions. Then when the game is a rousing success, the developer makes a DLC campaign thingy ala Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare, except for the They Live game it would be a Big Trouble In Little China game.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 1:47 p.m. CST
A great old but lesser known NES game that could make for a crazy big budget 3D IMAX movie... ABADOX
by lv_426
It is about an armored up astronaut/soldier dude who has to rescue the Princess Maria from the giant planet-sized space beast called Parasitis. Now, that may not be some great story or premise, but the idea would be to let a writer go nuts with it and build on it. Nobody cares about the Abadox canon. It would allow us to see something new and maybe unexpected instead of being disappointed with the most likely safe and sanitized Halo or Gears of War PG-13 movie. Of course, there are other old games where this model could work, and I only use Abadox as an example. Seriously, check it out on Youtube though. It is like the NES shooter version of Fantastic Voyage where you have this tiny dude blasting all kinds of gooey alien bits inside a weird organic alien environment. It could make for a pretty cool 3D IMAX sci-fi action epic. I kind of like the notion of taking games with very minimal stories and using that as inspiration for a film. Due to the need for simplicity a lot of older generation games use a very basic story concept just to frame the setting of the game. That might be more freeing to writers and directors than having to try and figure out how the fuck they are going to condense something like Metal Gear Solid, Halo, or Mass Effect into a two hour movie. Looking at Halo is actually the perfect example. The movie stuff they've made from it so far like the anime anthology Halo Legends and the recent Halo: Forward Unto Dawn web-series all work because they are exploring little bits and pieces of the massive Halo canon. Trying to do the Master Chief storyline and all that it entails might start to get a bit messy. The problem is that Halo has been a pretty big media franchise in its own right for the past decade. It has its own extended universe just as Star Wars and Star Trek did. Look where that gets us too. It is still too early to judge SW episode VII, but Star Trek is a good example of a franchise that had a whole massive universe to explore, yet they just reboot with young actors playing the iconic roles of the original Enterprise crew. That is kind of sad in some ways. These massive extended universes really only work up until a movie is made, because the massive egos of Hollywood will never admit that the lowly licensed work of media tie-in authors and comic artists and game developers are worth even looking at, let alone using in the glorious live action big budget summer tent pole reboot or adaptation of the property. I think Hollywood waits too long to make movies out of this stuff. The Halo canon is a lot more massive now than even five years ago when they were initially mulling over a big budget movie with Peter Jackson producing it. Eventually these things get awfully unwieldy and might be more trouble than they are worth. Even Assassin's Creed, which is very cinematic, that is already a series with lots of games and a complex storyline. Hollywood doesn't have too good a time wrapping their heads around that kind of thing. I don't know a lot about Splinter Cell though. Maybe it is not too bogged down in complex canon like most of the big video game franchises.
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It won't surprise me if because a few kaiju flicks like Pacific Rim and the Godzilla reboot do well at the box office, that Hollywood will suddenly get a massive hard on for Japanese culture. It really does feel like the US is bankrupt in terms of culture and mythology. I guess we have Star Wars as our big mythology, but even that, with the excitement of Episode VII, feels a bit worn out. I think I'm not as thrilled about video game adaptations because I am sick of adaptations in general for film. Movies are so afraid to just tell a story now. It is all so much about familiarity with other media. We need new mythologies and stories that can stand on their own. Avatar proves this, as otherwise it wouldn't have done so well. It was actually something new (maybe not the most original story and concept) where you could go in and just watch it and enjoy it and not feel like it was only as good as the old TV show or video game or book that you loved. You didn't feel as though you were missing out because you didn't read some tie-in comic or novel or watch some prequel web-series. Sure the effects and 3D were a draw, but I don't think they were the only reason people went to see it.
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Nov. 15, 2012, 2:15 p.m. CST
According to Deadline, Massawyrm and the Sinister director will start working on a Deus Ex: Human Revolution movie.
by ObnoxiousCamper
Sounds good to me! Loved Sinister.
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how about an 'okami' anime directed by mamora hosoda and music by joe hisaishi?
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Nov. 15, 2012, 6:44 p.m. CST
Don't really care about Splinter Cell, but I watched Hardy in two movies in the last two days...
by Jaka
... (those being Dark Knight Rises and Lawless) and dude never ceases to be interesting on screen, so I'm sure this will be more of the same.
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I mean the guy can act his ass off that's for certain... he has screen presense. But why couldnt they get george clooney. I mean clooney looks exactly as sam fisher. he'll have to bulk up and learn hand to hand combat to make it look authentic but he could pull it off. Sam fisher is old he started out mid 30's early 40's unless they doing like sam's first mission... we will see
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Make it happen!
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Nov. 16, 2012, 10:37 a.m. CST
"Arrival"-looking Charlie Sheen for Gordon Freeman -- WINNING!!!
by MrMysteryGuest
Charlie's rockin' the goatee!
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