Well made adaptations can be mainstream.
Well made anything can become mainstream!
Go figure, all it took was scripts that aren’t dog shit and directors not trying to “fix it in post” all the time.
FFS this!
Am I losing my head or what!? Because I can’t get how everybody else is missing the obvious, the adaptations need to be good, we are not tired of super hero movies, we are tired about garbage adaptations, and I literally can’t believe any thinking person would really believe:
Oh, people are really tired of Marvel and DC, but game adaptations are thriving it must be their fault (because we are tired, obviously), so let’s focus on adapting videogames now!
Seriously! So many terrible adaptations. It’s refreshing to see really good shows based on games. It also doesn’t hurt that shows like “The Last of Us” and “Fallout” are based on story driven games so there is already a lot of good story to build off.
Halo: am I a joke to you?
Halo is a terrible adaptation
Breaking news: big budget media product that was developed by a competent and hard working team who understood and respected the source material turned out susccessful
cries in The Witcher
So much potential, perfect actor, lots of lore and stories, and they just decide to make whatever story up they wanted.
Hey, it worked out for GoT season 8.
Oh wait…
To be fair they did run out of stories to tell.
howls in Halo
bawls in battleship
And I am already waiting how the Borderlands adaptation is going to flop so hard that fishes out of the water will be envious of the move. For the same reasons.
Even if it’s faithful, the humor from the games is dated so much that only diehards will like it. If it’s not faithful, diehards will hate it.
It’s almost guaranteed to be bad by huge portions of people that will watch itIt’s not even the humour, the thing is just miscast so hard I’ve never seen before.
Jack Black seems to be a good fit
Not a bad fit, but why not the original voice actor? That’s what a lot of people want to see. These VAs do amazing work and their faces aren’t on screen
there was a whole pile of shit happening between gearbox and the original claptrap.
As for the current(? no idea, havn’t played anything after pre-sequal) claptrap, they want star power, which is why the mario movie cast had none of the current voice actors for any of the characters.
I get it, but as a fan of Mario, would you rather watch the movie with the va or Pratt?
I’m 100℅ va, but I may be weird
I can almost excuse jack black but what in the everloving fuck were they thinking casting Kevin hart as Roland? I guess we’ll see what his acting range is, but seeing as it’s a comedy I don’t think he’s going to be the straight man Roland was.
I’m more iffed by the casting of Tiny Tina. That actress basically acts out an arrogant teenage girl stereotype in every film, which is really not a good fit for TT.
See also Halo, who took the opposite approach
Don’t get used to it.
Fucking corpos are so detached from reality that they can’t even draw reasonable conclusions from successes/failures.
Counter argument. Money :)
Whoever wrote this article needs their fingers chopped. Seriously, it’s just a matter of time they write something so stupid, it kills someone.
The success of Fallout proves that people involved cared. That they took the source material and turned it into a good show. It proves people are happy to watch good stuff.
I’ve said this in other comments- Fallout succeeds because it’s about relationships between people who know each other vs people meeting but finding out they have something in common on a path to somewhat positive interactions which is the basis of all good drama.
Compared to every scene being naked drama with only conflict, exposition via confrontation, transactional relationships centered around a quid pro quo, or “love at first sight” being a romantic motivation.
Ahem. Good video game adaptions.
Success of well made show proves quality has gone mainstream
I’ve never played a single fallout game or even knew the lore besides its post apocalyptic. Loved the show and it was cool as hell learning about the universe. They told the story well and made me care about the characters.
Whats great is that the people making the show really cared about the lore of the games, so if people like you who have no prior knowledge decide to ever check out the games, there isn’t going to be an inconsistency with the lore or setting.
The show looks and feels just like the games. Its great, wish more adaptations had writers, directors, actors, etc. that cared about the source material.
As much as I liked the show in general, I think the majority of my enjoyment came from much they nailed the aesthetic, so I’m glad to see people enjoying it so much with out that prior experience.
I’ve always wanted to play them but they’re the only games where I just get horrible, horrible, motion sickness. :(
You can always try 1 and 2
Or play in third-person
Well, well, well, producing movies based on “The Sims” and “Monopoly” doesn’t seem so far-fetched now, does it?
I mean, they made the emoji movie. And fucking battleship. Nothing’s too far-fetched. A family drama based on Connect 4? Why not! How about Dwayne Johnson stars in an action movie based on Hungry Hungry Hippos? It’s all too plausible now.
Emoji movie is satire I think
No shit, good video game adaptation have more success than bad ones ?
Just for the love of god, do not let Uwe Boll be involved.
Wait, is Kyle McLachlan in this? If so hell yeah
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A slew of commercial and critical hits, including last year’s HBO series The Last of Us – which won eight Emmys – and The Super Mario Bros Movie – which made $1.36bn (£1.094bn) in the global box office – has led to market experts comparing them to Marvel adaptations, which have long been big moneymakers for studios.
The adaptation of Minecraft will be on screens next year, while a live-action film based on the Legend of Zelda franchise is in development and Margot Robbie is reportedly working on a The Sims movie.
They attribute this to two things: modern adaptations sticking more closely to the tone of the games while expanding on the story, and studios spending money to secure some of the biggest actors and producers in film and TV.
“In a single year, the Curse of the Terrible Video Game Adaptation has been so comprehensively broken that movie production companies now appear to be flinging themselves into something of a gold rush,” she said.
“However, where the MCU developed a singular, unified vision under the guidance of Kevin Feige [president of Marvel Studios], there is no apparent equivalent of that yet emerging behind video game properties.”
It was a sentiment echoed by Tim Richards, the chief executive of Vue cinemas, who said the key to adaptations’ success was their familiarity to a broad range of audiences.
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