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| metalgearsolid |
So, I want to make a movie based off a videogame and guess what the videogame is Metalgearsolid. I want it for it to be a triology and for Solid snake to be played by Christian Bale and Big boss by Jennifer Connely.
First movie:MGS
Film will take place during the cold war and this is where people will learn about Solid snake and Big Boss. this will sort of be like Snakeater. People can enjoy the action and they can also think about the films meaning such as weapons of mass destruction.
Second movie: MGS Sons of Liberty
Film will take place in Alaska and Snake will find out about him being genectically engineered and he will also fight his brother Liquid Snake and the films meaning will be about Gen Eng.
third movie: MGS Independence
Film will take place when the world has entered a period of instability around the world and few corporations are profitting from mercenaries the film will be about military industrial complexes and this last film will be where snake fights big boss and kills himself in the end. |
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| DarkAngel |
| I don't do politics but real movie versions of these great games would be awesome. |
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| Kapedan |
| Drake, you play to much videogames. |
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| Moongoose |
| Isnt a MGS movie already planned? I remember reading an article one which said that Uwe asked for the right to do a MGS movie and they basicly told him to off, that he cant make movies and that they alredy have plans themselves for making MGS into a movie. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
sorry man, but if you really wanna make a movie you should learn how to write a little better.
there hasnt been a good film made from a game yet, but good luck ;) |
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| kush paintings |
I feel your pain
I hate to be the one to bring you bad news but folks in hollywood are ahead of you on that one. Unfortunately, the game company (Kojima Productions) are spearheading the operation. I have yet to see a truly good video game film and that is for one and only one reason. People feel, for who knows why, that it is absolutely neccessary to not stray more than an arms length away from the video game. With Metal Gear Solid you have a good character, although a blatant rip-off of already done SNAKE Pliskin (Escape From NY and LA). The story lines of games are always weak with gamers judging the "top" story lines on a dillusional relative (to other video games) scale. What's worse is they have even said that Vigo Mor(whatver) would make a great snake. Oh yeah, really ing convincing. These people honestly need to stick with what they know how to do, video games. Now, I don't know enough of the story line of Metal Gear Solid to say its crap, but I played it long enough to know that you better have a good visual director in tow because nothing seemed overly compelling (or original for that matter).
On that subject of adaptations, however, I feel your pain. I read "The Time Traveller's Wife" this summer (shortly after it was released mind you) and immediately knew that this book would make a great film. I felt a lot like you probably do right now when I found out Brad and Jennifer had bought the rights to this book before it was even released. Ironic that a great love story was bought by them months before they divorced. Either way, there are plenty of stories out there to adapt, but what I am finding is that rather than just taking a single book or game and just adapting that for a story, I find what I love about the concept, theme, etc. and try to build-off that. For example, I was reading a book and there was a short chapter that alluded to a fable, while this was just a small part of the book the fable caught my imagination. Since then I have run with it, barrowing from other books, movies, and even plays. While the foundation was provided by the book, it's what I believe something entirely new. In the end, my influnce for the story may be obvious, but at the same time, it is something my own and in that sense entirely different.
What I am trying to say, and really have carried on too long, is to see what you love about Metal Gear Solid. Is it the character? The suspense? The broken-hero theme? Take whatever you think makes Metal Gear Solid successful and use it as a base to build something new. |
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| Moongoose |
| I cant see why Kojima Productions heading the project would be a bad thing? Its obvious from the games that really really likes to direct stuff, and with his company heading the project its much more likely that it will stay true to the gmae. Lets face it, the main audience for these movies arent random people, but persons who actualy played the game and enjoyed it, for everybody else its just another action flick. The question is do you really want to damage the image of one of the best game series by making an inferior movie which daviatess too much from the game its based on? Remember they woudnt piss of just any gamers like Uwe Boll did with his movies, they would piss of japanese gamers who would most likely send ninjas after them. And you dont mess with ninjas! |
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| kush paintings |
| Yes, but your missing my point. A video game is a video game and a movie is a movie. Bringing a video game to a movie has always failed for the simple reason that the makers always stick too much to the game. Its amazing how dull and lifeless video games become once your no longer at the controls. |
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| Moongoose |
Always sticking to much to the game? I feel that the opposite is true, that most movies deviate too much from the game. To just name a few:
- Super Mario Brothers: wtf was that, the only thing that movie had in common with the game were the names ofsome of its charactes. Granted Mario doesnt really have a strong story backgroung...actualy it has no story at all but that just shows that not every game can be made into a movie. This was just a blatant namebrand exploitation and it deserved to fail miserably.
- Street Fighter: sticking more to the storyline but still different enough that if you are a SF fan it actualy hurts when watching the movie. One would expect fopr a movie based on a fighting game to have beautifuly choreographed fights but this one didnt provide that (Mortal Kombat movie did that much better + it had more girls in tight clothes which was a great turn on for its main audince consisting of teenagers), combine that with poor actiand and you get another deserved flop.
- Wing Commander: I was most dissapointed with this one as i am a huge wing commander fan for as long as i can remember. What amazed me is that This was directed by Chris Robers himself who otherwise did an excelent job with ingamecinematics in WC3 and WC4. The actors that appeared in the game and were loved by many were abandoned for a fresh cast without any charisma, and while the story remained moderatly true to the game (god i hate prequels...why did it had to be set before WC1, many hoped it would be set during the closing stages of WC3...that would have been quite spectacular) it was made completely ridiculas (for instance tigers claw being depth charged and the character being silent so that they woudnt be overheard...wtf its a damn space ship not a submarine! Sound doesnt travel in space you morons) that completely turnd off every fan of the game.
- Alone in the dark / Bloodrayne: Uwe Bolls work, enough said. But still, complete disregard for video game cannon, spectacular plot holes and goofs and bad directing are things that just cant be ignored, seeing this makes you want to kill yourself.
Anyway my point being when i go see a movie based on a game im not expecting the next Shawshank Redemption, im not expecting the next Godfather, im expecting to see a familiar character doing familiar things in a familiar enviroment, and when that isnt provided, but the movies does things in its own way i get upset. And apparently so is everyone else, but nobody in the bussines has apparently figured this out yet. |
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| kush paintings |
| And what my point is that video game dialogue is stale and carries over to the movies, the characters often cool for about 10 seconds, and storylines that seem to be put together by kindergartners in free period. I too am not expecting much, just a solid action movie say like the Rock, Face/Off, or the like. Fact of the matter is, and please God don't refrence Mortal Kombat as a video game to movie success, is some descent action. And if it is a fight movie, like a street fighter, I say they take a note out of the current Chinese flicks that are just unbelieveable. The closest movie that I think felt like it was channelling a long lost video game was actually Kill Bill. The boss to boss sequence. It too had a shallow story line like nearly all video games. But what made it good was that it dared to do something different, and having sick characters certainly didn't hurt either. Video game adaptations have fallen short on both those counts nearly every time. |
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| BiG-_BoSS |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
sorry man, but if you really wanna make a movie you should learn how to write a little better.
there hasnt been a good film made from a game yet, but good luck ;) |
+1
Learn how to write first. |
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