Shadow of the Colossus movie gets Hanna writer

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BasilZero said:

Kantor said:
I've never seen Hanna, so I can't judge based on that.

This movie on the other hand... no, I'm not excited for it. It's not because I dislike SoTC. Shadow of the Colossus is quite literally my favourite game of all time (#1 on my top 50). But it is a game. The attraction was very much in the gameplay, the immersion, the atmosphere. Take away the game aspect and it's a movie about a guy who rides around in silence for ten minutes then jumps on a monster and stabs it to death. Sixteen times.

I guess it could work, but I am 90% sure that it will not.

Pretty sure they'll change up the storyline and the main character's personality. Spiderman is different in the movies from what people expected him to be from the comics. (both the original and the amazing spiderman). <- Even if it is some minor changes. I mean what is the most they can do with the main character in SotC that some people will find awkward - add a voice? XD

My only concern is that I hope they just dont take off in a whole new path where it just goes away from the story or the basis of the game....kinda like what happened with the Resident Evil movies.....l0l.

How do you equate adapting Spiderman with SoTC? Spiderman is a comic book series which is virtually a pre-made story board for a movie. The fact the movie changed things doesn't alter the fact that they started with almost the ideal source material. It has important stuff like...you know... dialogue already written. Not to mention a plot with sufficient substance to carry a 90min - 2hr movie. SoTC is almost the opposite of ideal source material for adaptation, as such it would have to be subject to considerable alteration as to not resemble the game in the slightest. 

Better to take the idea of SoTC and make a movie called something other than SoTC.

My prediction would be that this movie will not be the one to break VG adaptations out of the realms of mediocrity.

My pick for a mediocrity busting adaptation would be if you took God of War Chains of Olympus, GoW I and Ghost of Sparta and mashed them all into one movie. With GoW II and III as the potential sequel. I'm assuming Ascension is somewhere before GoW I in chronology so that could be folded into the first movie. There you have plenty of source material (plot, dialogue, theme, setting) to work with.