7 Games Everyone Wants Made into Movies (That Really Shouldn't)

Screw all of these, I want a Tetris movie.

Well, a CG movie for Zelda wouldn't be a bad thing

the only one's of these that would make good movies are god of war, zelda, and metal gear solid.. the rest have movies very simlar... if they where gonna make any game a movie it would be heavy rain

*inb4 MGS already is a movie*

I'm tired of everyone speaking negatively about David O. Russell's involvement with the Uncharted film. So what if he wanted to take it in a different direction? Games and movies aren't the same; in order to make a good movie, it's practically necessary to make significant changes. I would rather have seen a great filmmaker take a shot at making a video game adaptation on his own terms than hear about the latest junk that Paul W.S. Anderson craps out. If he failed then so be it, but I would have liked to see what he did with it.

I agree with this article. Zelda could work as an animation though, especially one similar to Wind Waker. It would have to be made in collaboration with Disney/Pixar though. A live action Zelda film is just a terrible ideea however.

No game should ever be made into a movie. Movies based on games are even worse than games based on movies. I've never seen one that was good.

I laughed when I saw Saving Private Ryan under CoD, they can't be any more different. A MGS movie would work if it followed the cinematography of Saving Private Ryan, concentrating on the main character and make his isolation from the over arching world key in the setting. A GoW movie could be fun if it was 300-like, but an angry goatee guy killing everything could be really hard to take to the big screen. What I would be more concerned about a Zelda movie is Link's apparel. If you put him in tights the movie will be dead on arrival, if you don't... just not right. Lose-lose situation. The only way a GTA movie would make any logical sense to make would be if the director and writer tried to imitate the process of playing the game and made it into one big scenario. The camera angles are key for this. When the protagonist gets into a robbed car to chase down someone, the camera has to be spider-man like when he is swinging. The sky view is key, has to be abundant.

Motion Picture Theater Film is not a suitable medium for the translation of Video Game Stories. They most certainly cannot have a live action cast, unless the Video Game itself possesses such (like C&C Red Alert)

Erm Prince of Persia and Silent Hill are good? More like best of a bad bunch, but doesn't make them good. The Uncharted franchise could have a good movie in it. But it never will because the right people wouldn't be put on the job. I'm not worried that Nolan North has ruined the chances of anyone else being Nathan Drake in a live action film. And obviously I'm not everyone 'cause none of those franchises would make my top 7 list of games I'd like to see as movies (actually there wouldn't be 10 games I want to see as movies).

There are moronic artciles, there are stupid articles, and then there is this one. If you have nothing to say...don't. You might as well say, don't make any game into a movie, which is stupid in it´s own right. If you think hollywood can ruin them, sure they can, but since this a "make belief" kind of deal, we start with the idea that they would actually make a good movie out of those, and each one could be make a great movie.

Grandia, why all the hate? The uncharted games, the two, have been absolutely amazing imo, nothing groundbreaking, but it does the true and tried methods to perfection, better than it has been done before. That level of polish its very seldom seen in any medium, be it movies, books, games or whatever.

I want Untcharted neither as a Game nor as a movie. Uncharted 1 and 2 are both under the lamest Games i ever played I don't understand why Gaming Mags hype this crap all the time so much. Maybe Sony payed them a lot, I cant belive that grafics are nowadays the only criterion for a game. Beside good grafics Uncharted offers hardly anything, the gameplay is lame, the Storys are the same as indiana jones had 30 years ago and the Chars are gay.

I have to disagree with the everything else part, I liked the tomb raiders, the first mortal kombat, all the resident evils, and I even like super mario bros and street fighter in the whole "its so bad its good" way

The only way I could see any of these working except Legend of Zelda (LoZ will never work as a movie) Is if they made these movies CG if they made a Metal gear Movie then David Hayter would have to voice snake and the only way to do this would be if the movie was CG Capcom realised this with the immencly bad resident evil movies and decided to make CG ones which allowed 3 major benifits 1 they can use the same voice actors from the games allowing fans to relate and connect to the characters much easier 2 the characters look exsactly the same as they do in the games allowing them to be easily recognisable and again allowing fans to relate and connect to them easier 3 the resident evil monsters stayed very true to the origional game design if you have seen the movies when you see these bioweapons like the mutated licker or (dwarf) Nemesis you just dont get the same feeling by doing these movies in CG they can replicate these monsters behavior, movements, sise and strength without having to use immence ammounts of development time brushing out those imprefections which sometimes you can notice in the live action movies making games into movies isnt always a bad thing but personally i feel that most of them are much better off as CG movies

A red dead movie sounds promising, I don't see why not.

Actually... There's not a single game on there that I'd like to be a movie. They're the great games they are because they fuse their story-telling with interactivity.

Zelda has actually had some decent manga adaptations. The Nintendo Power Link to the Past comic (written and drawn by Cyborg 009/Kamen Rider/Power Rangers creator Shotaro Ishinomori) for instance is a GREAT series that also gave Link a likable, flawed personality (if a bit archetypal) and had some interesting original characters like the knight Roam. Anyway, games do not need movies to validate their existence just like how Wathcmen didn't need a so-so adaptation to justify its existence

I think a lot of the thinking is that big blockbuster Holiwood movies are the greatest achievments in entertainment... however i think some of these games would translate really well into tv shows. i look at something like Spartacus Blood and Sand (which i love) and the quality of writing and the way the show is presented offers more than a Holiwood blockbuster imo. MGS would be great as a tv show - but 12 hour game will never translate well into a 2 hour movie. and saying that the Prince of Persia movie was actully really good imo.

Link could be a mute.

people want these games into a movie?

Please DON'T make a Halo movie, a Mass Effect movie, a Bioshock movie, etc.

david hayter and snake are always going to be better than nolan north and drake

Make a gears movie already you panzees.

Well, I heartly agree with the spirit of this Editorial. There's no use in asking for a great game to become a movie, as if it was necesary to acknoledge its writing. Uncharted, Zelda and Red Dead Redemption are great for what they are. No need to dumb them down.