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castlevania

Castlevania Movie Sees Belmont Armed With "A Fucking Sword"

After Dr. Henry Jones, modern pop culture's second-best proponent of the whip has got to be Castlevania's Simon Belmont. And with a Castlevania movie (sort of) coming up, just imagine the kind of stuff he could be doing with said whip! And yet, courtesy of a script review for the upcoming project, it seems the whip's been relegated in favour of a sword. And not just any sword:

Though I said Vampire Killer is gone from this script, Simon does wield what is described as a chain whip in two instances. However, it is nondescript and in one of the occasions is wielded as an off-hand weapon. So what is Simon armed with throughout the film? A fucking sword.

Oh dear. Nothing like setting off on the wrong foot with fans, is there?

Paul W. S. Anderson’s Castlevania [CC2K]

1:20 AM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Luke Plunkett
4,310 views, 124 comments

lost planet

Lost Planet Movie Confirmed

MGS actor and Hollywood writer David Hayter said, a few weeks back, that a deal to bring Lost Planet to the big screen was "not entirely confirmed yet". Is now! Variety are reporting that the project's a done deal, with Warner Bros. to distribute, former Marvel pictures boss Avi Arad to produce and Hayter to write. Capcom will be contributing at least some, if not all of the money for the movie, though there's no word on a release window. Expect more info at Capcom's E3 event tomorrow.

Capcom making Lost Planet movie [Variety]

11:30 PM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Luke Plunkett
3,626 views, 37 comments

Latest by Cats: You know, as long as it was as good as Starship Troopers was I'd be super happy. more »

games and film

The Blind Spot of 'Genius': Kojima and Griffith

I'm really fond of the Brainy Gamer, mostly because Michael Abbott's posts almost always live up to the title of the blog; this week, he tackled the question of 'genius' and auteurs, amongst a lot of MGS 4 talk (especially in reference to Citizen Kane). Abbott looks at the parallels between D.W. Griffith (director of Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, among a lot of others) and Kojima Hideo of Metal Gear fame. Leaving aside the question of whether Kojima 'is' a genius (at the very least, he is an auteur), Abbott draws parallels between the two, especially in terms of a 'blind spot': More »

1:30 PM on Sun Jun 22 2008
By Maggie Greene
6,980 views, 78 comments

Latest by Sunjammer: @dadeisvenm: I guess at that point it just boils down to both your tolerance level and your preferences. I can't argue that the people that enjoy MGS are wrong. They aren't. All i'm saying is that many, many more could more »

max payne

More Max Payne Movie Shots

This time courtesy of /film, and these ones are doozies. No Mark Wahlberg exiting make-up here, no, these have stuff, and cop cars, and stuff that crashes onto cop cars. Oh, and more snow, something I'm glad to see they're paying attention to: the real star of the first game wasn't Payne, or the villains, or the walkable umbilical cord, but the all-encompassing storm. Two more pics after the jump. More »

10:30 PM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Luke Plunkett
14,265 views, 37 comments

lost planet

Somebody Wants To Make A Lost Planet Movie?

Yesterday's episode of Evil Avatar's podcast featured as a special guest David "Voice of Solid Snake" Hayter. They got chatty, they talked Metal Gear, but something else they talked about was Hayter's other line of work: as a Hollywood writer. Over the year's, Hayters worked on movies like X-Men 1 & 2 and the Scorpion King, and he's even at work on the upcoming Watchmen flick as well. Seems he's also in discussions with both Capcom and Warner Bros to write a screenplay for a Lost Planet movie. Interesting choice, Capcom. Can't say I enjoyed the game too much, but the setting could work as a flick, especially if it's pitched at the Chronicles of Riddick end of the budget/market.

Evil Avatar Radio Ep. Eleventy One - David Hayter [Evil Avatar]

9:20 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Luke Plunkett
1,642 views, 29 comments

Latest by y2kenjination: If Hayter's writing the screenplay, then count me in. more »

sega dreamcast

Dreamcast Lives On (In New Jackie Chan Movie)

The Dreamcast is dead? Don't tell the production crew of new martial arts flick Forbidden Kingdom. Siliconera's Spencer just finished up a viewing of the Jackie Chan/Jet Li epic, and says that while the film's littered with gaming references, one stands above all others:
However, the best reference is also the most subtle. In the first five minutes of the movie, after Jason wakes up from his dream, you can see a Dreamcast on the left hand corner of the screen underneath his TV.
Sounds pretty blink-and-you'll-miss-it, but then, so was the Dreamcast.
The Forbidden Kingdom co-starring the Dreamcast [Siliconera]

10:30 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Luke Plunkett
4,686 views, 67 comments

Latest by Billkwando: @Billkwando: I was wrong. The two were reunited for an infinitely more worthy movie, Unleashed. more »

uwe boll

Uwe Boll Wanted To Do A WoW Movie, Blizzard Said No, Thanks

Uwe Boll likes games. Likes making movies based on games. Likes making movies based on games involving swords, castles and magic. Guy's got a track record. So Uwe Boll making the World of Warcraft movie, it just fits, right? Did for Boll. Didn't for Blizzard. Boll says:
I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, 'We will not sell the movie rights, not to you...especially not to you. Because it's such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it."
But what if it was a good movie, Uwe? Oh, right...
Uwe Boll Won't Ever Be Entering The World Of Warcraft [MTV, via VG247] [Pic]

4:30 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Luke Plunkett
19,651 views, 107 comments

Latest by n/a: "especially not to you" PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more »

onechanbara

Onechanbara Movie Hits Next Week

Ah, Onechanbara. Cowgirl, female flesh, zombies. It's like lightning in a bottle. As you may or may not know, the hack n' slash series is being made into a live-action movie, of which this is the final theatrical poster. The film's due to open in theatres across Japan next week (April 26), and should go down a treat with fans of the games. For everyone else, this poster does a pretty good job of setting the scene.
『お姉チャンバラ THE MOVIE』先行試写会が開催 主要キャストが舞台挨拶[Famitsu]

10:30 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Luke Plunkett
11,186 views, 43 comments

Latest by maraxusofk: nice ass more »

assassins creed

Assassin's Creed On "Hollywood's Radar"

Variety's Ben Fritz is a games journo, yeah, but dude also works at Variety. Which means he gets an insight into the movie business the rest of us don't. So it's interesting to see that, tucked away in his post about John Riccitiello's "OMG games > movies" rant from yesterday, is this:
...a few big games like "Bioshock" and "Assassin's Creed" are, I hear, on Hollywood's radar.
BioShock, we knew, but Assassin's Creed, that's new. Here's hoping any possible Hollywood adaptation remains faithful to the source material. Be a shame to see them focus solely on violence at the expense of all that church-diving and bench-sitting.
John Riccitiello[Variety] [Pic]

7:20 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Luke Plunkett
2,808 views, 54 comments

Latest by Evil J: @Seiven: In fairness, though, having read the Matheson novella before viewing either... they weren't really much like the book beyond the whole "last man standing goes up against vampires" basis of the story. At least with books you can have more »

halo

New Halo Movie Script About A Kid Named John

Hollywood writer Stuart Beattie, of GI Joe and Gears of War, is a huge Halo nerd. And like many Halo nerds sheds the odd tear at the sorry state the series' film adaptation hopes have found themselves in of late. His solution? Write another script, one that can get made on the cheap, then throw in a couple of extra plot outlines to round it all off and make it a trilogy. Beattie's take is based loosely on the novel Fall of Reach, and is about a six year-old kid, named John, who's kidnapped by the USC "then brutally trained to become an elite Spartan warrior known as Master Chief 117". The movie then deals with humanity's first contact with the Covenant, and the...well, fall of Reach. Subsequent sequels would then focus on the stories of Halo 1 and Halo 3. And before you ask, we're assured this isn't an April Fool's joke, for what that's worth.
Exclusive: Halo Movie Has Reach! [LatinoReview, via io9]

8:20 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Luke Plunkett
4,135 views, 52 comments

Latest by n/a: @aldo_14: Damn you! I was hoping to be the first one on this thread to draw parallels between this "story" and the mind-numbing shittiness that was "Soldier". Well, with any luck, the movie will be bad enough to drown the Halo more »

onimusha

Onimusha Movie Delayed

Christophe Gans' Onimusha movie is in a spot of bother. It's been put on indefinite hold thanks to, of all things, the death of Heath Ledger, which impacted on the schedule of producer Samuel Hadida, who was due to work with Ledger on a new Terry Gilliam movie. Because that's been stopped, Hadida had to delay the filming of Onimusha, which has now thrown out the calendars of the film's Japanese cast, who are now all too busy working on other stuff to get started on Onimusha. Series fans not put off by either the prospect of an adaptation or the fact Gans was handling it will no doubt be crushed. If, you know. Those people exist.
ONIMUSHA delayed? What's Christophe Gans up to, then? [AICN]

10:30 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Luke Plunkett
2,578 views, 19 comments

Latest by n/a: who about making Onimusha into a complete CG movie like the ones in the games more »

max payne

Beau Bridges Will Make The Max Payne Movie Perfect

All those Street Fighter II casting announcements mean nothing. Nothing. Because they've all been trumped by this single signing: Beau Bridges has been cast in the role of B.B. Hensley for the upcoming Max Payne movie, which will see him acting as Payne's mentor. I don't remember a B.B. Hensley in either Max Payne game, but really, that doesn't matter. Because it's Beau Bridges. Which instantly makes the character incredibly awesome.
Bridges cast in 'Max Payne' [Hollywood Reporter]

8:20 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Luke Plunkett
3,144 views, 52 comments

Latest by pandafresh: while i'll agree the story was meh in max payne one and sucked in 2, the max payne series is pretty damn good gameplay wise. especially number 2, but dont ever play those games on a console, ruins the experience. more »

game design

'Designing Filmic Games': Designing the Bourne Game

Gamasutra has a great interview up with Paul O'Connor of High Moon Studios, talking about the challenges and pitfalls of designing games based on movie IPs (in this case, a game based on The Bourne Conspiracy; while not directly tied to any of the films, they are using parts of the films in their game). As he succinctly notes early in the interview, the terrible reputation of movies-turned-games is entirely deserved; while I've read a number of interviews tackling this question, this interview is in-depth and a meaty read in a way that most of the others aren't. More »

4:30 PM on Sat Mar 15 2008
By Maggie Greene
3,521 views, 36 comments

Latest by FranUnFine: @Eville1: Yes, The Warriors. I see it as a spiritual successor to Streets of Rage, and I can beat that in under two hours (which was definetily not possible with The Warriors). Plus, if you are a collector, you can collect more »

max payne

First Shot Of Mark Wahlberg As Max Payne

Smuggled off the set of the upcoming adaptation, and I must say, there's a pretty good likeness going on here! Not only is the movie's snow machine set to OVERKILL, but Mark Wahlberg's even sporting Max Payne's trademark "constipated" pinched face. Only niggle? I don't remember Max Payne's face being that...well, portly.
First Look At Mark Wahlberg As Max Payne [DarkZero, thanks Rav!]

4:30 AM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Luke Plunkett
132,695 views, 110 comments

uwe boll

Uwe Hates On Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Sir Ben Kingsley

Latest from the Uwe Boll anger files: his adaptation of Postal is hitting theatres on May 23. Same day as some Indiana Jones movie. An error on Herr Boll's part? Not on your life. Dude's out for blood. Spielberg's blood.
On the Indiana Jones weekend - May 23 - we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up - would Michael Moore say!
Gotta love how the angry, broken English makes it into his emails! More »

10:30 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Luke Plunkett
12,132 views, 145 comments

Latest by n/a: Gotta love that picture! more »

b-list

Conan, The 'B-List,' and the Gaming Industry

There's a fun article over at the Escapist talking about the B-list in games, film, and other entertainment (looking in particular at Conan, both the original pulp fiction incarnation and the 2007 game from Nihilistic); the author's contention is that game developers don't really 'get' the B-list, and why people turn to B entertainment for, well, entertainment. Of course, video games suffer from the odd conundrum of having too much money; most B entertainment manages decent returns on smaller budgets. But what about the pulp fiction/game divide? More »

3:30 PM on Sat Feb 23 2008
By Maggie Greene
6,610 views, 53 comments

Latest by tk.: "God Hand" was a B-list game IMO (although I never really got in to it). more »

mortal kombat

New Mortal Kombat Movie Sounds Awful Already

How do you make a new Mortal Kombat movie suck harder than the last sucky Mortal Kombat movie? I'll tell you: you hire Chris "Mink" Morrison to direct, whose last movie was 2005's Into The Sun. With Steven Seagal. Note that's fat, crazy 2005 Steven Seagal, not chubby, hilarious 1988 Steven Seagal. This new film won't be a sequel to the 1995 movie, nor its 1997 sequel; rather it will, according to the director, be a "re-envisioning (if that is a word) of the Mortal Kombat franchise from top to bottom". Oh, and it'll also be borrowing from the original's "pioneering spirit":
Todays audience is a savvy, involved group so the film must be A plus plus in every area in order to capture the magic of the first film...The original Mortal Kombat game was born a child of many visual loves by the creators at midway so this latest version borrows heavily from that pioneering spirit and must be thought out and executed at the highest level in order for it succeed in today's market place.
Uh...right. Repeat after me: "straight to DVD".
Director talks Mortal Kombat reboot [Moviehole]

2:30 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Luke Plunkett
8,389 views, 113 comments

Latest by n/a: Luke... So I stumbled across your thoughts and took a look at your various posts over the years. You seem to be an avid gamer with a solid understanding of the niche and wide market of games as far as specifics more »

industry

Should We Be Making 'Games Noir'

It's an older musing, but one well worth a read through — a quick history of a few decades of film, from the big budget, big blockbuster hits of the '30s to the film noirs of the '40s and '50s - frequently low or limited budget pictures that fall squarely into the B movie category. Born from pragmatism but still managing to be more affecting than many of the big budget fluff films of the same era, film noir and its history may provide a paradigm for games of the future. Why? More »

2:30 PM on Sat Feb 9 2008
By Maggie Greene
4,769 views, 86 comments

Latest by n/a: There's this whole independent industry that does just that. Those "indy games" (as i am opposed to call them homegrown) are titles that explore some new tendencies, often bring new perspective into gaming in general or simply are there more »

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