Considering the fact that movies based off of video games seems to be the new thing in Hollywood and all the ideas of potential movies being kicked around, I'd entered the mind set of "Oh, if they turn X game into a movie it will suck because of Y" More often then naught the Y is the movie will be based in a world that was open and had different choices you could make or was strictly linear and therefore has diminished potential to be branched out into a full fledged movie.
Case in point is Mass Effect, after the Escapist posted that article a little bit ago about how Hollywood was considering a Mass Effect movie, I like others immediately jumped in and said that it could not be done because of the massive number of story tangents in the game and how all these stories create a unique story for our own personal Shepard. However, after some time reflecting, I realized that a Mass Effect movie could work, if they did one critical thing.......Not have it set during the games.
Because of its open world nature, the universe of Mass Effect has to have some degree of back-story, and Bioware, being the great story tellers they are, created a lot of back story for Mass Effect. There exists in Mass Effect, several potential stories that could be told, that won't involve Shepard and won't be a massive continuity fail of behalf of the movie developers.
My personal idea for a Mass Effect movie would be ot have is set during the First Contact War (when humanity first came into contact with aliens in this universe.) There are several reasons for this.
1. It is an important event in this universe, so it will still have some bearing in the universe and be a point that can not only be a treat for fans who know much about the universes back-story, since it is basically at the chronological start of Mass Effect it could serve as a conduit to attract newer people into the universe and not feel lost.
2. It is well document enough that movie directors and producers would have a basic heading of how this starts and how it ends and what are several important sub-events in this event. However, it still is vague enough that directors and producers could have some wiggle room for creative license.
3. It has a lot of stuff going on, the war its self is important, but the politics and other things that occurs during this ensures that stuff will happen that will entertain people.
4. Shepard is not involved in any way. This ensures that the massive open nature of the games is not entierly retconned or tweeked, but more importantly, it does not invalidate and of the choices the players made. this is an event in the universes past that is being played out.
So in conclusion, is there a game or even book that Hollywood could make into a potentially great movie if they did something or something's to it to ensure that, such as a back-story event or character development to a person who was not a main character.
Case in point is Mass Effect, after the Escapist posted that article a little bit ago about how Hollywood was considering a Mass Effect movie, I like others immediately jumped in and said that it could not be done because of the massive number of story tangents in the game and how all these stories create a unique story for our own personal Shepard. However, after some time reflecting, I realized that a Mass Effect movie could work, if they did one critical thing.......Not have it set during the games.
Because of its open world nature, the universe of Mass Effect has to have some degree of back-story, and Bioware, being the great story tellers they are, created a lot of back story for Mass Effect. There exists in Mass Effect, several potential stories that could be told, that won't involve Shepard and won't be a massive continuity fail of behalf of the movie developers.
My personal idea for a Mass Effect movie would be ot have is set during the First Contact War (when humanity first came into contact with aliens in this universe.) There are several reasons for this.
1. It is an important event in this universe, so it will still have some bearing in the universe and be a point that can not only be a treat for fans who know much about the universes back-story, since it is basically at the chronological start of Mass Effect it could serve as a conduit to attract newer people into the universe and not feel lost.
2. It is well document enough that movie directors and producers would have a basic heading of how this starts and how it ends and what are several important sub-events in this event. However, it still is vague enough that directors and producers could have some wiggle room for creative license.
3. It has a lot of stuff going on, the war its self is important, but the politics and other things that occurs during this ensures that stuff will happen that will entertain people.
4. Shepard is not involved in any way. This ensures that the massive open nature of the games is not entierly retconned or tweeked, but more importantly, it does not invalidate and of the choices the players made. this is an event in the universes past that is being played out.
So in conclusion, is there a game or even book that Hollywood could make into a potentially great movie if they did something or something's to it to ensure that, such as a back-story event or character development to a person who was not a main character.
