Are We In A Golden Age of Video Game Adaptations?
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From Bloomberg--
"In Hollywood, video games are the new superheroes."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...superhero-fatigue-with-video-game-adaptations
"In Hollywood, video games are the new superheroes."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...superhero-fatigue-with-video-game-adaptations
A Mass Effect show along the lines of Halo, The Last of Us, and Fallout would be awesome. Although I think this is one where they'd be better off doing an original story set in the same universe.
I'm kinda interested in seeing that Horizon Zero Dawn series they announced a while ago. I love that game's story, and I do think a TV show could do it justice. If done right, of course.
Yes.
I think the biggest thing is that they finally stopped trying to do video game "adaptations". You can just do something like Fallout where it's just... an entry into the story. You aren't retelling anything. You aren't changing things. Just... make a story in the world of the game.
That's all you have to do.
I think the biggest thing is that they finally stopped trying to do video game "adaptations". You can just do something like Fallout where it's just... an entry into the story. You aren't retelling anything. You aren't changing things. Just... make a story in the world of the game.
That's all you have to do.
You still have to have a well-developed world for it to work. It then makes sense for someone to write a story in that world that doesn't retread the games. And the interesting thing about the Fallout series is that it's perhaps one of the oldest IPs currently being adapted, with decades of history to draw on via its multiple games. dating back to the early 90's.
True, but those are the generally the types of games that should be being adapted.
I don't think an IP needs to be hugely expansive to be able to set a show/movie in its world, but yeah it does need a well developed world.
A straight adaptation is fine too, but it feels so much better when it's just a part of the world.
I'm pretty sure that it's already been confirmed that the HZD show won't be following Aloy's story.
That's cool with me, I like the whole story the game tells, not just Aloy's part.
While there are a lot of Video Game Adaptations being made, I don't know if its a Golden Age. I'd think that a Golden Age would actually have some good adaptations, but if its quantity over quality then maybe you could call it a "Golden Age".
Outside of the first Castlevania Animated Series (Nocture, the sequel series, is garbage in my opinion), I can't think of a good video game adaptation since the first Mortal Kombat movie in the 90s. Financially successful ones? Yes. Actually good ones? Not so much. Detective Pikachu almost makes it, but the actual story isn't very good, the movie is 100% held up by its visuals. I have a huge soft spot for the first live action Street Fighter movie but I couldn't really call it good.
There have certainly been more financially successful adaptations recently, but not enough to call it a "Golden Age". It kind of feels like a bandwagon that a lot of companies are jumping on, and I don't think that Video Game adaptations are going to be, for example, the next comic book movie/TV craze.
Outside of the first Castlevania Animated Series (Nocture, the sequel series, is garbage in my opinion), I can't think of a good video game adaptation since the first Mortal Kombat movie in the 90s. Financially successful ones? Yes. Actually good ones? Not so much. Detective Pikachu almost makes it, but the actual story isn't very good, the movie is 100% held up by its visuals. I have a huge soft spot for the first live action Street Fighter movie but I couldn't really call it good.
There have certainly been more financially successful adaptations recently, but not enough to call it a "Golden Age". It kind of feels like a bandwagon that a lot of companies are jumping on, and I don't think that Video Game adaptations are going to be, for example, the next comic book movie/TV craze.
I don't know if i would call it a golden age tho, i do call it however a sign of the defaed of Hollywood itself, how? well, who is making this remakes? who is making this universes?
Streaming plataforms & Video Games Companys, this is another sign than Hollywood now is going out of the game, it's not even choosing the topics anymore or making the universes other media work with, they are now at most adapting media from other sources on his own if anything.
So, although i don't know if this is the beginning of a golden age, i do believe this is a sign of a transition who shows games and streaming as the big winners, and show Hollywood as going down.
Streaming plataforms & Video Games Companys, this is another sign than Hollywood now is going out of the game, it's not even choosing the topics anymore or making the universes other media work with, they are now at most adapting media from other sources on his own if anything.
So, although i don't know if this is the beginning of a golden age, i do believe this is a sign of a transition who shows games and streaming as the big winners, and show Hollywood as going down.
^ Hollywood still owns most of the streaming platforms though. They're still calling the shots.
Just out of curiosity, which of the video game adaptations from the last decade or so have you seen?
First of all the Streaming Services are part of "Hollywood", most of them are owned by the studios that produced movies and TV shows, Paramount+=Paramount, Disney+=Disney, Max=Discovery Warner Bros., Peacock=Universal, MGM+ & Amazon Prime Video=MGM. I think at this point Netflix is pretty able to stand on it's own as part of "Hollywood" as much as any of the other studios.
And as for the other part of your post, I don't think the game companies really have that much control over what's happening with the adaptations. The studios are working with them more closely, but I don't think they really have that much direct control over what the studios are actually doing with the properties.
And Hollywood as been adapting things from other sources going all the way back to the beginning, so they're not any more or less creative than they've ever been.
Last of Us, Fallout?
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