| Reasonable said: And you've got to have faith. Actually, having watched District 9, I did come out thinking that Jackson and Blomkamp could indeed have made a great movie based on Halo, and might actually have delivered the first decent game to movie film. Pity it got canned. On the whole, though, I would prefer people to make films to be good films, and not to try and leverage a game. The simple fact is very, very few games really have a narrative worth putting in a film. You might think a huge RPG has a huge narrative, for example, but it's all incident, when you boil it all down you have at best a slender narrative with characters who have limited depth and room for dramatic growth. I think Deus Ex could backbone an interesting film, I'd love to see a something like Ico expanding into a lovely aminated film, but I think the focus will be on titles like Resident Evil, etc. which are C movies themselves so hardly the best starting point. I will say though, that I would like to see a great film based on the basic characters and elements of Uncharted - that would work really well. Of course, the game really aimed high for a solid B movie narrative with A movie production (like a certain Raiders of the Lost Ark) and it's inherently well set up to support a film as well. Nathan Fillion even looks like Nathan Darke for pete's sake!
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this is my point. do we want them to just port the story into a live-action portrayal of the game, or do we want them to write new stories, good stories that can be GOOD by themselves, just featuring/inspired by video game characters/plots etc?
(i just googled Nathan Fillion.. holy crap!!!)
