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Top 10 Video Game Movies That Need To Be Made Or: Hey, Baby, Wanna Sit On My Casting Couch?

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No.1 Mass Effect

Mass Effect

The plot:

The first human recruited for the interspecies Spectre corps must hunt down one of their own who’s gone rogue. Along the way he’ll discover that the galaxy’s time is running out, as The Reapers, biomechanical monsters from beyond the edge of the universe, are returning after a 50,000 years absence to cull all sentient life. He’ll need a team. A damn good one.

Why it could work:

Possessing what is perhaps the most standard plot of all the games on this list, Mass Effect never feels like a video game. It’s 100% pure science fiction goodness in the tradition of Star Wars. A mostly typical hero’s journey, Mass Effect’s Shepard must overcome anti-human sentiment from the rest of the galaxy’s races, gather a team of specialists for what might just be a suicide mission and, eventually, save all life in the universe. Plus, it’s only the first chapter in a trilogy. And Hollywood loves trilogies.

Why it might not work:

To truly bring the world of Mass Effect to life you’d probably need the single largest budget in the history of movies. There are relatively few human characters in Mass Effect. From the gigantic Krogans to the environment suit-wearing Quarians to… whatever the heck those flying jellyfish are. Spectacular ship battles, dozens of different worlds each with its own unique landscape and over 20 main characters, not even counting the supporting roles… It’ll be a minor miracle if even half of what makes Mass Effect so great survives the translation to the big screen.

Who should be involved:

Casting Mass Effect is surprisingly easy. Most of the characters have real-life counterparts, which they also resemble. Seth Green is Joker. Keith David is David Anderson. Chuck’s Yvonne Strahovski is Miranda. Martin Sheen is The Illusive Man. It goes on and on. Also, since most of the alien members of Shepard’s crew are destined to be CGI, you already have the perfect voice actors for the roles. As for Shepard himself, fan favorite Matthew Fox of Lost seems to be the perfect choice.

Jack Shepard
Jack Shephard as Mass Effect’s Shepard? Hell, yes!

The potential:

Stellar. Ensemble, science fiction epic with amazing special effects? Cha-ching!

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  • Slithe

    I demand Terry Crews as the Cole Train!

    • https://www.yellmagazine.com Yell! Magazine

      Excellent casting choice! After looking it up on Google images, he seems to fit the appearance of that character perfectly. I can’t believe he slipped our minds. Thanks!

  • Jackdexx

    Nathan fillion is a bad choice. plain and simple that poster would be great if it was not fillion.

    • TheMatt

      He’s clearly a better choice than Wahlberg. He’s a bit older than Nathan Drake but he’s got all the charm and charisma. Wahlberg excels at playing dangerous, wild characters, he couldn’t act charming and disarming if his life depended on it.

  • Justindrysdale92

    I loved your list, you definitely picked some great games that I’d love to see as movies. But the truth is unfortunately that Hollywood has not a fucking clue how to make a great video-game based movie. Of all of the video game based movies I have seen, only a handful were what I’d consider great movies. Tomb Raider, Resident Evil (only the first one, hated the rest cept maybe Extinction, that one at least tried) and Mortal Kombat, the rest have been ok to downright agonizingly horrible. Not to mention, the best video-game based movies there are still suck compared to the games they’re based-on. Mortal Kombat has the look and feel but lacks the gore, the whole character mythology and seriousness of the game. I can think of at least a million reasons why the Resident Evil games will always be superior to the movies. Hell just the first Resident Evil is at least ten times better than every RE movie there is. The movies manage to capture some of the feel of the game but fail miserably in so many ways. The music, the ambiance, the monsters, the weapons, even the characters, the environment just doesn’t compare. Still I saw RE 3 times when it opened and loved it but the best RE movie is not even made by that director, it’s Degeneration, a CGI movie that’s easily better than all four movies put together. As for Tomb Raider, well I’ve never been into the TR games that much on account of the horrid camera but from what I do know about the first game, I know they left a ton of great parts out (like the T-Rex part, classic). Though as a hardcore gamer, one thing I’ve learned is Hollywood knows nothing about the vg industry and I don’t they ever really will. If you want a great vg-movie to be made then you need a gamer to make that movie. I thought your suggesting Kojima make MGS was the only great idea in the entire article, he could make a great MGS movie. Really what Hollywood needs to just do is to leave vg’s the fuck alone and stop trying, they just make us the fans suffer. And like I said, you want a great vg-based movie made, let a gamer do it, nuff said.

    • TheMatt

      Thanks for the well-written and well-though out opinion. I would like to reiterate that my main problems isn’t that Hollywood keeps making video games based movies, it’s that they keep adapting franchises will little to no story or character development. Mortal Kombat is a great series but not exactly brimming with deep, meaningful dialog. Same with Resident Evil. What the industry needs is just one, good, box office hit based on a video game to bring credibility back to the genre. Hopefully, something like a Mass Effect or an Uncharted can work well on the big screen. And yeah, Hollywood needs to bring people that have a fondness for the franchise they’re adapting, not these hacks that think they know better and immediately start by throwing the baby out with the bath water.

  • Justindrysdale92

    Oh, I forgot Silent Hill, terrific movie.

  • Kingbob

    Best list of this kind ive seen. Just missing one… HALF LIFE

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