Below: Agent 47 from hitman the game.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Video Games to movies (Hitman the movie)
Why... is it deemed necessary that every time a game is a hit there must be a movie made of it? All these lead to are me going to a movie of a game expecting a great movie because the game knocked my socks off and i get let down by some Hollywood writer who tries to stick a trilogy of games into a single 120 minute movie (ex: Hitman). This sort of thing continuously happens because nobody has had the idea to just copy the script of the game to a movie script without tampering with it and have never even played the game. The other reason video game to movie conversions fail is that the producers get a guy who is popular and attractive as opposed to being a perfect actor for the role to do the lead, again this is a bash on Timothy Olyphant's performance in Hitman versus their original idea to use, the greatest man on earth next to Chuck Norris, the one and only Vin Diesel. Vin would have had the look of Agent 47 and the voice too. Why they didn't use him is beyond me. I'm not saying that Timothy Olyphant isn't a great action star but the Romanian killing machine Agent 47 of the Hitman series does not have a normal american accent and is a lot bigger in stature. The choice of using Timothy Olyphant is the equivelent of using Mr. Bullinger from the science department as a lead character because hes a big guy with a shaved head. Maybe one day film studios will learn to ask gamers about video game to movie conversions and it will be actually good, but until then like an Alzheimer's disease patient i will go into video game movies with my hopes up and have the exact same experience.
Below: Agent 47 from hitman the game.
Below: Agent 47 from hitman the game.
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3 comments:
The sad thing is, is that in the right hands, movies based off of video games could be a godsend to teenagers and adults alike. There are many great games out there with amazing storylines that fans would just love to see put into movie form. Halo, Gears of War, Half Life, just to name a few. I wish it was just clear to producers and directors that there is a pot of gold waiting for them if they could only make the conversion from video game to movie, good. Also, Vin Diesel is a hack.
dude, Hitman was tight.
and a Halo movie has been announced, due for some time next year. Resident Evil was pretty cool too, even if it didn't follow the game's story very well.
Yeah, I agree almost all video game -> movie conversions fail pretty hard. I really like how Uwe Boll or whatever that guys name is keeps pumping out terrible movies based on games and ruins the games image.
I agree that many games do have the potential to be an awesome movie, but i don't see how directors manage to fail on all of them, is it really that hard?
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