Best video game movies and what adaptation would you like to see

They have made tons of Donkey Kong movies.

I would like to see GTA movies or series.

 

The key plot of Reamde by Neil Stephenson is World of Warcraft by a different name. The majority of the setting is outside the game, but roughly 25% of the book is playing it

I don’t think any MMORG-based movie should be entirely within the game, so I think Stephenson’s plot would be great for such a movie.

 

I enjoyed the first Silent Hill movie, as they did nail the visuals and a few other things. It was more or less a mess story-wise and theme-wise though IMO. They basically just recreated the great designs from the game, which is fine to some degree, but definitely makes it feel a bit derivative. To make matters worse, the designs actually mean something in the games (like that "butcher guy" is a physical manifestation of a character's "inner demons"), but this is pretty much all lost in the film conversion. Not saying it is easy to do something like this justice (especially in a movie format), but it is something that could have been done much better IMO. SH might be better as a mini-series perhaps? It doesn't really work as just a monster movie, but a longer series with a bigger focus on psychological trauma and whatnot could be good.

I only watched the first couple RE movies. They're fun I guess, but pretty ridiculous. I'm not a big RE video game fan, so can't really comment much, but seemed they took the film series in a different direction at some point (basically "watch Milla kill zombies" rather than RE film).

They're working on a Halo live action...something. I forget what it is exactly...TV show I think? Coming to a streaming platform soon I think.

They're making an Uncharted movie. The games are basically Indiana Jones with some tweaks, so that *could* work, though I don't have a lot of optimism based on some things I heard about the movie's production.

HBO is making an adaptation for The Last of Us, and IIRC the Chernobyl show runner is in charge of that one. I'm only aware of a few things about the production (some initial casting), but that could probably work out well.

The Witcher on Netflix is pretty good, though technically it is based on the books and not the games.

I wouldn't be opposed to revisiting Parasite Eve (the first game) as a film/TV show, though that's another one that more or less book-based (I think there are already 1-2 movies?). I'll try to think of other cult classics as most big name video games already seem to have adaptations lined up somewhere (though they might not all get made).

edit: The MGS games would be interesting, but I have no idea how you would tackle that. There are some great highs and some bad lows in that series, so you'd have to be careful about adapting it. Something like MGS1 or MGS3 might be able to be standalone adaptations, but if someone wants to adapt the whole series, good luck. Though I would love to see MGS1 made then followed up with a MGS2 production that is marketed similar to the MGS2 game, and then see a bunch of people very confused when they watch the movie/TV show.

 

Man you just took me down memory lane with Silent Hill, Parasite Eve, MGS, etc. I think Uncharted should be decent in the way of action/summer movies goes. The first game I finished when I got my PS5 last year was the last Uncharted game in the series and if they just follow that storyline to the T it would be a great movie.

MGS, I think, would be better off as a Netflix series or anime series. The espionage aspect is easy to nail down but then you got Kojima's nutty plot twists to factor in.

 

To keep in the spirit of the game put 3.5 hours of cutscenes in the movie.

 

Uncharted should be easy to do well (relatively speaking), I'm just not sure the production company behind it is doing a good job. The games and stories are heavily character-driven I think, so if the actors (and writing) aren't any good in the movie, then it will probably flop. Like I said, it is kinda like Indiana Jones. If you replace Harrison Ford with a ho-hum actor, I don't think those movies would work as well. Neither would Uncharted without a similarly strong performance in the main roles. I think they have Tom Holland as Nathan Drake, which I'm cautiously optimistic about, but they also have Mark Wahlberg as Sully, which seems like a mis-cast to me (also seem like an excuse to put more "star power" in the movie unnecessarily). Maybe it will work out, but they'll definitely need to make sure all these characters have good chemistry, good dialogue, etc.

And yes, MGS would definitely have to be a series of some sort I think. I actually think these long mini-series formats popularized by Netflix and other streaming platforms will lead to better video game adaptations. I don't think most video games with decent stories are easy to adapt to a conventional movie format, and of course they wouldn't really work as a season of 15-20 ~22-minute episodes either (with commercials breaking things up). 6-10 hours of content with a decent production budget can really make for some good results.

Thinking about it, I guess God of War *could* work too (especially if they follow the same "twist" as the games), though it would also be pretty hard to adapt I think. The initial games in particular are pretty light on dialogue and plot development, though I think the main pillars are pretty solid. You could adapt it, but you'd really have to flesh it out....which could go good or bad. But a high budget Greek fantasy production would have a lot going for it if done well I think.

 

Borderlands...including Gary Busey somewhere in the credits.

 

I can't wait for this mini-series:

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/everything-we-know-about-the-last-of-us-hbo-series/

From a story perspective, TLOU is my favorite game of all time.

 

my son picked this book out and is really enjoying it so far

 

Mortal Kombat obviously and a video game I'd like to see into a movie? Probably the volleyball one from capcom I think? Because breast and ass and I fap fap fap!

 

Warcraft was a pretty good adaption. Never played Warcraft or World of Warcraft but I was able to sit through that movie when it came on tv.

Not a movie but Witcher was good as a series.

It would be pretty cool to see a God of War and a Gears of War movie.

 

Subnautica. Oh wait, isn't that the Abyss. Anyways....

 

Metroid and or Legend of Zelda

 

Yes to God of War. Sony originals have some really nice plot driven ones: Uncharted, Last of Us, even Horizon Zero Dawn.

 

They need to make a screen adaptation of Leisure Suit Larry



They could cast nearly anyone on Pornhub

 

As much as I wish they would for both these titles, I'm worried no one could pull them off correctly. I think a screen adaptation could kill either video game franchises (although Super Mario Bros movie didn't hurt the franchise)

 

Like others mentioned, a silent hill movie/series based on either 1,2 or 3 would be great. same for any of the fromsoft games.

Any of the two nier games makes for a good sci-fi movie


As far as best video game movies hmm
does pokemon count?

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Make a def jam vendetta movie, you cowards