Apologies if there is a similar thread. I thought this would be a good place to discuss upcoming video game movies and what video games you'd like to see adapted. Here is a list of video game movies and their DOM gross, and the ones upcoming through 2016.

1 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Par. $131,168,070
2 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time BV $90,759,676
3 Pokemon: The First Movie WB $85,744,662
4 Mortal Kombat NL $70,454,098
5 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Par. $65,660,196
6 Resident Evil: Afterlife SGem $60,128,566
7 Resident Evil: Apocalypse SGem $51,201,453
8 Resident Evil: Extinction SGem $50,648,679
9 Silent Hill Sony $46,982,632
10 Pokemon: The Movie 2000 WB $43,758,684
11 Need for Speed BV $43,577,636
12 Resident Evil: Retribution SGem $42,345,531
13 Max Payne Fox $40,689,393
14 Resident Evil SGem $40,119,709
15 Hitman Fox $39,687,694
16 Mortal Kombat: Annihilation NL $35,927,406
17 Street Fighter Uni. $33,423,521
18 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Sony $32,131,830
19 Doom Uni. $28,212,337
20 Super Mario Bros. BV $20,915,465
21 Silent Hill: Revelation 3D ORF $17,529,157
22 Pokemon 3: The Movie WB $17,052,128
23 The Wizard Uni. $14,278,900
24 Wing Commander Fox $11,578,059
25 House of the Dead Art. $10,249,719
26 Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Fox $8,742,261
27 Alone in the Dark Lions $5,178,569
28 In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
(Dungeon Siege) Free $4,775,656
29 BloodRayne Rom. $2,405,420
30 Double Dragon Gram. $2,341,309
31 Pokemon 4Ever Dim. $1,727,447
32 Pokemon Heroes Mira. $746,381
33 DOA: Dead or Alive W/Dim. $480,813
34 Postman Pat: The Movie Shout! $1,519

What a sad list.

Hitman: Agent 47 Fox 8/21/15
Angry Birds Sony 5/20/16
Warcraft Uni. 6/10/16
Uncharted Sony 6/10/16
Assassin's Creed Fox 12/21/16

Personally, I would like to see a reboot of Tomb Raider based on the newer game and the upcoming Rise of the Tomb Raider. Recast Lara Croft and give her a grittier, more survivalist personality than the rich, arrogant, risk taker in the Jolie version. Watching the E3 game trailer for ROTTR just made me want to see a movie of it.

I also think the timing is perfect for a Mass Effect movie to get made. It's awesome science fiction, and with the return of Star Wars and the announcement of a new Mass Effect game at the end of 2016, the time is now to make it.

With its director and its stars, Assassin's Creed could very well become the best video game adaptation ever. If it does, it could do the same for video game adaptations as X-Men did for comic book films in 2000.

Warcraft and Uncharted are really scheduled for the same weekend?

Why can't they just make Metal Gear, or Halo.

Also where the hell is Resident Evil 6? Kind of weird that the final film will be released 4-5 years after the last. I think Milla go pregnant. It was suppose to be out this year right? Maybe the wait will help give the film a nice domestic boost, being the last film and all.

Left 4Dead!

As of now it seems so. Definitely won't stay that way though.

I feel like Pixels should be added to the mix. I have a feeling Angry Birds is going to try the same thing it is doing and just fail miserably.

If Pixels is included, so should Wreck-It-Ralph, which I absolutely loved.

Only one made it over $100m (and it was one of the first ones). That pretty much tells us how popular video game movies can be, and why no studio should make them ever again.

If The Wizard is in that list shouldn't Tron and Tron Legacy be in there too?

Disney needs to make a movie out of the Epic Mickey video game. It would be so well, EPIC!

POKEMON

Rockstar needs to get off its ass and let someone make a Grand Theft Auto movie.

The problem with video game movie adaptations is tha stories for video games depend on non-linear strorytelling. So in order to make a good movie based on a video game, it requires a good deal of artistic liberty which in turns requires a good artist directing the film.

@ Darth: YES


I've been wanting these so bad, for such a long time, don't know what's the problem.


And this could be sooo good, when made well.

I would kill for a well-made Legend of Zelda movie. I just can't decide if it should be animated or live action.

I read an article recently that Bethesda has continually denied any of its games being made into movies, though several studios have come to them. They say they are worried about losing creative control. I guess I can understand that, and with fallout and elder scrolls being open world games, they'd be tough to adapt. I've heard Rockstar has a similar stance on gta. Hopefully Uncharted, Assassin's creed, and or warcraft can ease that anxiety. I still think they should make a Mass Effect movie series.

The script is awful.

yeah it is why the only ones that have really worked have been the action or horror ones where there is less story there.

Are there drama based video games?

I think Twisted Metal could do really well.

Another major problem for Video Game Movies is they don't exactly attract the talent A- list directors. I mean shit Uwe Boll. Let's also not forget that the ones most like had involvement from Paul W. S. Anderson. Mortal Kombat (2 sucked without him) Resident Evil, even Death Race which can be loosely called a Twisted Metal knock off. Maybe he brings the right amount of camp and plausibility to them. Also he does bring the fun usually.

Lara Croft at least gave us Daniel Craig.

It'll happen one day, I'm sure

nope

piggybacking off of this, will there ever be a positively-reviewed video game adaptation? final fantasy: the spirits within is currently the highest rated one on RT at 44%. if assassin's creed couldn't do it with its pedigree, will anything?

Good directors rarely want to touch video-game adaptations, and the shit ones have no idea how to do them. What seems to happen at the moment is that most attempted adaptations are made into throwaway actioners with B-level star power and the worst scripts imaginable. Though I also believe there is a fairly high amount of snobbery among critics when reviewing a video-game adaptation.

Maybe it's because they keep adapting shitty video games.