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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.7 Halo

Halo cover art

The plot:

Spartan super-soldier Master Chief, along with sexy A.I. Cortana, fight off alien invaders on a gigantic ring-shaped planet. Thus is born a franchise with a license to print money.

Why it could work:

The Halo movie keeps attracting top-tier Hollywood talent like flies to shit. Peter Jackson wanted to make the movie, but then settled for producer duties. Neil Blomkamp, director of District 9, was attached as director, but backed out. Then Hellboy/Pan’s Labyrinth visionary Guillermo Del Toro expressed interest, but had to back out to concentrate on directing the Lord Of The Rings prequels, which he ended up leaving as well. With the project generating this much interest from the best and brightest directors in Hollywood, it’s only a matter of time before somebody competent signs on.

Why it might not work:

You would need a budget that would make Avatar’s look puny in comparison to shoot a Halo movie. There isn’t a single scene that wouldn’t require some amount of CGI. Alien creatures, massive battleships, the very landscape of the Halo world itself… not to mention Master Chief. Covered head to toe in heavy battle armor, it would be very hard to achieve the Chief’s overall look using practical effects. No, the Spartan would pretty much have to be a computer-generated character, motion captured by an actor a la Avatar. We’re talking upwards of $300 million in effects here. That’s a hell of a gamble for any studio.

Who should be involved:

Wait a second… massive budget… risky gamble… Paging Mr. Cameron, Mr. James Cameron? The erstwhile King Of The World showed with Avatar that he could create a brand new world from out of nothing and make it look believable. And as far as interstellar war is concerned, Cameron’s action credentials are well established. Sign him up, right now! Heck, why not get his Avatar leading man to motion capture and lend his voice to Master Chief? Sam Worthington playing a Spartan? Yes, please.

Halo screenshot
Plus he’ll get to make out with yet another blue chick.

The potential:

Off the charts. Brand-name recognition alone is a major asset, everybody and their mother knows of Halo. Single day profits of most Halo games have outperformed the gross of major Hollywood movies during their entire theatrical runs, so the movie’s fortunes look bright.

Who said Leviathan was dead in the water?

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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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