Video game movie casting

[Souplex]

Directors in all their unoriginality are buying up videogame rights like crazy. What games do you think would actually make good movies and who would play what characters.

 

[qbert4ever]

I'm still waiting for a Halo movie, with Glen Jacobs (AKA Kane) as MC and Samuel L. Jackson as Johnson. It would either be awesome, or cause the universe to implode with its sheer shitty-ness.

 

[Aries_Split]

The bioshock movie should be first person.

think about it.

I havent'.

 

[Death916]

I'm still waiting for a Halo movie, with Glen Jacobs (AKA Kane) as MC and Samuel L. Jackson as Johnson. It would either be awesome, or cause the universe to implode with its sheer shitty-ness.

samuel L. would be the greatest sergeant johnson ever. itd jus be funny

 

[Meado]

I'm still waiting for a Halo movie, with Glen Jacobs (AKA Kane) as MC and Samuel L. Jackson as Johnson. It would either be awesome, or cause the universe to implode with its sheer shitty-ness.

samuel L. would be the greatest sergeant johnson ever. itd jus be funny

Lexa Doig for Cortana, anyone?

And, of course, Hugh Laurie = Gordon Freeman.

 

[Mr. Moose]

Halo would only work as a CGI movie.
Just keep the actors from the games and use the style of the Halo Wars vids.

I would like to see a CGI Sonic film, based off of Adventure 1

 

[KSarty]

I wish Clint Eastwood was a lot younger now, because Clint Eastwood in his prime = Solid Snake. I guess the best person for the job now is Hugh Jackman.

 

[Dommyboy]

I'm still waiting for a Halo movie, with Glen Jacobs (AKA Kane) as MC and Samuel L. Jackson as Johnson. It would either be awesome, or cause the universe to implode with its sheer shitty-ness.

samuel L. would be the greatest sergeant johnson ever. itd jus be funny

I would see the movie just to see Samuel L. Jackson as Johnson. Than hopefully the Master Chief shoots his hat off and than he dies but 15 minutes later he comes back perfectly fine. Brilliant plot.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

I'm still waiting for a Halo movie, with Glen Jacobs (AKA Kane) as MC and Samuel L. Jackson as Johnson. It would either be awesome, or cause the universe to implode with its sheer shitty-ness.

The wrestler Kane? If so, he's not big enough. He's one of the best of all time, but he's just not big enough to MC. You'd need Dalip Singh (AKA the Great Khali) or Paul White (AKA the Big Show). And YES on Samuel L. Jackson. That guy who does the Allstate commercials and narrates for the Military Channel would be good, too. Hmmmm..... I dunno about Cortana..... Natalie Portman? No. Maybe Selma Blair?

EDIT: Hmmmm, where have I heard the name Jacob before where it concerns Kane? Aha! Jacob Goodnight, the bad guy in See no Evil. Wonder if they named him that after Kane's real name?

Also, @ Mr. Moose, I think it should be live-action, but we can definitely keep Chief's voice. It would work, cuz we never see his face. Just pull a Darth Vader, put a huge fucking monster of a dude in the costume and plug in the original voice actor's voice.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Damn. Double Post. Here, I'll change it.

Lexa Doig for Cortana, anyone?

And, of course, Hugh Laurie = Gordon Freeman.

Hugh Laurie fukin rules. Love House. Love Street Kings, too. Who the hell is Gordan Freeman? For that matter, who the hell is Lexa Doig?

 

[Crunchy English]

Did someone just say, "Who the Hell is Gordon Freeman?" Is that a joke?
And if it's not, what's our responsibility here? This is a respectable forum, and not the place for mockery and ridicule, but why must I be tested like this?

No No, it must be a joke. A funny, funny, joke. Yes.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

No, I seriously have no idea who Gordan Freeman is. I think I heard it before on The Escapist, a long time ago, something to do with a Star Wars game, or maybe a book or something. But, no, I'm not mocking or being disrespectful, I just really don't know who that is.

 

[Random Argument Man]

The perfect match in heaven would be Sean Connery and Deckard Cain.

No chance, he's retired. He said "I won't go back with all the idiots in Hollywood". I can understand him.

No, I seriously have no idea who Gordan Freeman is. I think I heard it before on The Escapist, a long time ago, something to do with a Star Wars game, or maybe a book or something. But, no, I'm not mocking or being disrespectful, I just really don't know who that is.

Play a game of Half-Life or watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRsexrhbG8


If you don't know what this means. It means you should have done option number 1

 

[shatnershaman]

The govenator as Chief would be awesome. If only for the "humour" aspect.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

No, I seriously have no idea who Gordan Freeman is. I think I heard it before on The Escapist, a long time ago, something to do with a Star Wars game, or maybe a book or something. But, no, I'm not mocking or being disrespectful, I just really don't know who that is.

Play a game of Half-Life or watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRsexrhbG8


If you don't know what this means. It means you should have done option number 1

About Option #1. Can't do it. My X Box red lighted on me and I haven't the money to replace it. Also, if it comes on the PC, don't bother telling me to play that version. This isn't my computer, it's my parent's and they don't let me put games on it. They don't like that I'm a gamer. *sniff* They just don't *sniff* understand me.

Anyway, since I can't play the game, I'll have to go the Youtube route. thanx for the help.

EDIT: Also, on the Diablo subject, Anjelina Jolie as the Assassin, Matthew McConaghey (or however the hell you spell his name) as the druid, Anthony Hopkins as Mephisto (Hannibal is creepy as hell), and the brother on Hostel 2, the one who wimped out in the end, as the warrior from the original.

 

[AlisonPrime]

David Hayter as Solid Snake, just have him buff up a bit and voila
Sean Connery as Big Boss

 

[zachatree]

David Tennant (of doctor who fame) as Guybrush Threepwood.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Okay, so he's the main character in Half-Life. Got it. BTW, that was the most rediculous 60 seconds of my life.

 

[Blind0bserver]

And, of course, Hugh Laurie = Gordon Freeman.

I don't know, I just have to disagree with this one. Hugh Laurie is a brilliant actor, that much is a fact, but he's too old to play Gordon Freeman (Laurie is 49, Freeman is somewhere in his late twenties). Also take into account that he hasn't really done any action movie-type work (or at least that I can think of). Most importantly, if Hugh Laurie was cast as Freeman, he wouldn't be allowed to speak. Personally, that's why I like House in the first place, for the stuff that he says.

Well, however they would cast would have to be a near-likeness to Freeman and would have to take a more serious version of the "Silent Bob Approach" throughout the movie.

 

[Jaydler]

Well, in there younger years I would have to nominate:

Kurt Russell as Solid Snake/Big Boss:
http://www.cineastentreff.de/teleschau/200637/3/200637_173565_1_024.jpg

Richard Crenna as Col. Campbell:
http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/pics/roy_campbell_metal_gear_-_solid_richard_crenna.jpg

These days though I would nominate Viggo Mortensen for Snake, or David Hayter (while not a perfect match, he's got the voice down).