Konami films

[Mwynn]

Castlevania
The film will be directed and written by Paul W. S. Anderson, and Crystal Sky Pictures is set to handle production, and the film will be distributed by Rogue Pictures, the genre division of Universal's art-house subsidiary, Focus Features.
They will be using Sonia Belmont.
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Contra, how can this get done without being called a complete ripoff of Aliens.

http://www.planetnintendo.com/thewarpzone/boxes/Contra.jpg

Suikoden, this could jump them into the fantasy realm, yet it will never sell as a movie with that name.

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[JasonM]

Castlevania better not suck... I do have hope though.

[Pacmanshead]

Why would they bother using Sonia, she only appeared in one game, which was for gameboy, but besides that the entire game was retconned by Koji Igarashi so its not even part of the series anymore. Simon or Richter would seem to be the more obvious choice since they're more popular and have more story to draw from. Of course I'm sure they'll just do whatever the hell they want as seen with past game to movie translations, they always do.

[Lovecraft13]

Sadly, the best Castlevania movie we'll ever get is Van Helsing.

[JasonM]

Sadly, the best Castlevania movie we'll ever get is Van Helsing.

Yeah... ah... no... That movie sucked! I wanted it to be good so bad but there was nothing good about it. This of course is only my opinion, but I'm hoping castlevania kicks ass unlike vanhelsing.

[Pacmanshead]

Yeah... ah... no... That movie sucked! I wanted it to be good so bad but there was nothing good about it. This of course is only my opinion, but I'm hoping castlevania kicks ass unlike vanhelsing.

Its the opinion of you and anyone with eyes, that movie blew and chances are Castlevania will too. I'm sure if they try to follow the game they'll throw in the romance between Alucard and Sonia and focus on that rather than try to establish anything significant in the story.

[KenKRK]

Yeah... ah... no... That movie sucked! I wanted it to be good so bad but there was nothing good about it. This of course is only my opinion, but I'm hoping castlevania kicks ass unlike vanhelsing.

I don't think Lovecraft was trying to imply that Van Helsing was, at all, a good movie, just that it seems to draw a lot of influence from Castelvania, and it's probably the closest thing we'd get to a movie based on the game, because any movie based on a video game, for some reason, takes at least half of the source material and s***cans it. Already, we have news that the film will be featuring a character that's only been used once in the game's 20+ year franchise, and it's even a character the makers of the game have come to ignore.

Contra, how can this get done without being called a complete ripoff of Aliens.

http://www.planetnintendo.com/thewarpzone/boxes/Contra.jpg

Don't forget Dutch and Rambo from Predator and First Blood, respectively.

[Mwynn]

Silent Hill 2 should be out in 2008.

[Lovecraft13]

I don't think Lovecraft was trying to imply that Van Helsing was, at all, a good movie, just that it seems to draw a lot of influence from Castelvania, and it's probably the closest thing we'd get to a movie based on the game, because any movie based on a video game, for some reason, takes at least half of the source material and s***cans it.

Thank you. I'm glad to see someone can read between the lines.

[DoctorWHO]

Why do these need to be films?

[Calloway]

Why does any video game need to be made into a movie? they all suck ass anyway. Sure I liked Mortal Kombat, but it sucked. Fanboys keep pushing for em I guess..except those fan boys never really follow the lame stories in video games anyway.

[Moonrider]

I loved all those games mentioned above, but Suikoden is one that is impossible to be done as a film. It has too many characters, with long and deep political story inspired by Chinese literary works such as Three Kingdoms. I'd rather it won't be done at all rather than see it fail.

Contra I don't really care. Silent Hill 2? If it has the same atmosphere as the first with a better story (and a leading male) then I have all the confidence to see this movie work. I think I remember reading that Paul WS Anderson will use more than one Belmont and the story will span centuries for Castlevania. I'm sure it's not that hard to make a better movie than Van Helsing.

[Calloway]

Sh 2 I only want to see because the first was hard enough getting past the bad cgi but when the story was a no story and then it had no ending I felt an urge to see a sequeal when it came out even though the first totally pissed me off and made absolutly no sense and never ended. It was like the first act of a 6 hour movie...totally incomplete and crappy.

[Moonrider]

Ever played the game, LilGreenMan? None of the game's stories are complete either. And most of the monsters in the first film were suit actors/actress, not CGI.

[JasonM]

Thank you. I'm glad to see someone can read between the lines.

It was one line by you, whom I've never had a private conversation with. There is no way in God's green earth that I would be able to deduce you were being sarcastic when I've met a number of people that legitimately liked VanHelsing as it was. For all I knew, you were one of them. I apologize for taking your words at face value.

[JasonM]

Suikoden, this could jump them into the fantasy realm, yet it will never sell as a movie with that name.


Rename it soduken and it'll be a hit! For some reason that game is huge.

[Mwynn]

I loved all those games mentioned above, but Suikoden is one that is impossible to be done as a film. It has too many characters, with long and deep political story inspired by Chinese literary works such as Three Kingdoms. I'd rather it won't be done at all rather than see it fail.

Suikoden would span multiple films.

[Calloway]

Ever played the game, LilGreenMan? None of the game's stories are complete either. And most of the monsters in the first film were suit actors/actress, not CGI.

See, that's what I had thought and apparently it's true. You need to play the game to get this movie. I never played the game.

The walking around monsters were cgi over suited actors...watch it again. That would be most of the monsters. It was blatant cgi which got me hating the movie right off the bat.

[Moonrider]

You know, I really don't understand what people expect when they go see these kinds of movies. 'You need to play the game to get the movie' is actually stating the obvious. Why do we even have these movies in the first place? Because like it or not the title sells. Many Hollywood movies based on a pop culture byproduct come from this fact alone.
As for Silent Hill, I have yet found a fan of the game (including those hard to please die hard gamers) who does not like the movie and that is by all means a good thing. Most video games based movie failed to please these kinds of people.
Most of the monsters were real costumes, full use of CGI was for the straitjacket monsters' face and the cockroaches. The nurses were actually professional dancers in rubber suits. Pyramid Head is a costume, and a good one at that.

[DoctorWHO]

Next up on the "Old games into useless movies":

Q-bert: The Movie! One alien against a bunch of other bouncy aliens...with the help of some annoying lil' boy and sponsored by McDonalds.

Tetris! - The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of blocks fitting into the right spot...

Pong - One ball...one paddle....one hilarious comedy starring Jim Carrey....yeah.

[Calloway]

You know, I really don't understand what people expect when they go see these kinds of movies. 'You need to play the game to get the movie' is actually stating the obvious. Why do we even have these movies in the first place? Because like it or not the title sells. Many Hollywood movies based on a pop culture byproduct come from this fact alone.
As for Silent Hill, I have yet found a fan of the game (including those hard to please die hard gamers) who does not like the movie and that is by all means a good thing. Most video games based movie failed to please these kinds of people.
Most of the monsters were real costumes, full use of CGI was for the straitjacket monsters' face and the cockroaches. The nurses were actually professional dancers in rubber suits. Pyramid Head is a costume, and a good one at that.


uh, I liked the resident evil movies and don't play the games. I expected good zombie flicks and I got em.

A movie has to appease to an audience bigger then it's source materials fan base...hollywood logic 101. You think x men the movie could live on the x men comics fan base? think again.

The blueish monsters that morphed as they walked (in fact the first monsters the mom came across) were cgi and were more frequent then other monsters. If they changed it for dvd I wouldn't know, i saw it in the theatre. I also saw an efx special and I knew about the nurses and the rest.

What really really pissed me off was the lack of a monster shown in the trailers 6 months prior. I can find no trace of it anywhere now. The scene was a girl climbing up a ladder and this monster with a twisted head and a face on the side. That was what sold me on going to see the movie. Yet, it was missing.

[Moonrider]

A movie has to appease to an audience bigger then it's source materials fan base...hollywood logic 101. You think x men the movie could live on the x men comics fan base? think again.


Ah, yes. That Hollywood logic. It does make sense but I always question it because most efforts to 'appease to a bigger audience' tend to alienate the fans. Experience told me that if the fan base aren't pleased then the movie automatically suck. In the X-Men case, the fan base were mostly pleased.

Now even though that doesn't really negate the logic, it's worth to point out that while an adaptation arguably cannot live on its fan base alone, without the fan base it cannot live at all.

It's also worth pointing out for me that I never said Silent Hill was an insanely good flick, but Silent Hill is an experience and results may vary. If you have played the game before it just make you appreciate the movie better. (See, this is why pleasing the fans are good business. I'm promoting the games and the movies to you right now! Free publications! :laugh: )

And oh, fanboys do follow the story in their games. Even more so in RPG and adventure games.

[spider]

I never understood why anyone hated the Resi movies and Doom, they were way better than they should've been and the best you'll get for a video game to movie adaption.

I don't understand why we need a Silent hill 2 though, it started out fun and true to the game but near the end I couldn't follow it.

[Moonrider]

Well, ya can't please them all.

[KenKRK]

I love DOOM! The fight between Reaper and Sarge at the end was great, and I thought they did the whole first-person thing pretty well. Some would consider it cheesy, but I'd espect nothing less from a movie based on a game like Doom!