F E AT U R E
10 Video Games We Want To See
On Film
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here aren’t all that many good movies based on video
games, but maybe that’s just because the right adaptation hasn’t come along yet. Video games are more cinematic and visually impressive now than ever before, and their
popularity means that Hollywood is continuing to try and find
ways of turning major video game franchises into major movie
franchises. Here are Screen Rant’s 10 Video Games We Want
To See On Film.
GRAND THEFT AUTO
As we mentioned in our previous video, “Movies You Didn’t
Know Were Shaped By Video Games“, Crank is modelled after the insanity of games like Grand Theft Auto. In turn, Grand
Theft Auto was heavily influenced by classic crime movies like
Heat, Scarface and Goodfellas. So why not keep the cycle going by making a Grand Theft Auto movie, complete with all
of the violence, satire and gleeful immorality that made the
video game series such a hit. With a dream director like Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese or Robert Rodriguez behind the
wheel, Grand Theft Auto could take over movie theaters as
successfully as it took over games consoles.
FALLOUT
We’ve all seen action movies where the hero shows up just in
time to prevent nuclear bombs being dropped on the United
States. Well, the Fallout series is set in a world where that
hero never showed up. What makes the Fallout games particularly good source material for a movie adaptation isn’t so
much the story, but the setting. When the dust clears, America
is a blasted wasteland occupied by small pockets of life including bandits, monsters, slavers, weird cults, military factions like
the Enclave and the Brotherhood of Steel, and a whole lot of
regular people just trying to scratch a living. For the right filmmaker, this world could be the perfect backdrop for an original
story set in the Fallout universe.
SILENT HILL 2
There have already been two movies based on the Silent Hill
games – one of them pretty good, the other pretty terrible.
These games were based on the first Silent Hill game and Silent Hill 3, which deal with the town’s strange cult and the little
girl who becomes a vessel for their god. Silent Hill 2, however,
is about a man called James Sunderland who comes to Silent Hill after his wife sends a letter inviting him to the town.
He finds this pretty disturbing, since his wife has been dead
for three years. It’s a great set-up for a game full of mystery,
psychological horror and creepy monsters – all of which could
transfer very well to the big screen.
BORDERLANDS
Anyone who’s seen a Mad Max movie will easily be able to
spot the direct influence of those films in Borderlands, Gearbox Software’s colorful, cel shaded open world role-playing
shooter. The alien planet of Pandora is a dangerous wasteland and pretty much everyone who lives there is insane, but
that’s all part of its charm. The plot of the games follows groups
of fortune seekers who are trying to track down mysterious
Vaults full of immensely powerful alien technology, and we’d
love to see a filmmaker tackle both the offbeat humor and the
treasure-hunting quest at the heart of the Borderlands series.
DEUS EX
With prosthetic limbs becoming ever more advanced, the
world of cyberpunk shooter series Deus Ex is starting to seem
like a realistic vision of the future. As human beings start to
use technology to evolve their own biology, the player is faced
with some hard choices regarding what the future of the human race should look like, and how it should be governed. The
original Deus Ex is still the pinnacle of the series, but Deus Ex:
Human Revolution was the title that really demonstrated just
how great a movie adaptation could look.
MIDDLE-EARTH: SHADOW OF MORDOR
Peter Jackson’s take on The Hobbit didn’t quite live up to the
standards set by the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but an adaptation of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor could be a great addition to the movie canon. The game takes place afte