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[Mibu no ookami]

I called this back in 2023.

We are entering a new era of cinema slop.

Real talk though: We will get a straight up banger or two here and there but yeahhhhh mostly slop.

These hills are a fucking gold rush for nostalgia, untapped ips, and putting asses into seats with the right properties and marketing.

You thought video game writing was bad? It will be fucking shakespeare to the film adaptions.


Soooo the million dollar question, who's gonna make a deal with Disney? Poppa Iger needs his IP fix.

Bit of a misread.

And I correctly called this back in 2022 and called for it well before that.

Adaptation isn't at all new. Hollywood has been adapting novels and fairy tales for decades even adapting tv shows and movies into movies and tv shows or remaking foreign films into domestic films or foreign tv shows into domestic tv shows.

Only the cynical complain.

Sony has already positioned itself as core to this getting the Zelda movie as well as Resident Evil which will be produced by PlayStation AND distributed by Sony (Zelda won't be produced by PlayStation). Sony recognizes the IP pipeline possibilities here, but others do as well.

Can Disney do what they did with Marvel and Lucas? They're a bit late to the party actually. There's not a Marvel equivalent to buy for the cheap price. If I'm Disney, I'm focusing on a Kingdom Hearts movie and a remake game with Square Enix. Focusing on ensuring that Marvel Rivals, Spider-Man 3, Wolverine, and subsequently X-Men, are all successful projects. A lot riding on the next phase of X-Men in the MCU.

 

[A.Romero]

Stuff for kids makes money because kids have no taste.

Of course. I loved Street fighter the movie when I was a kid.

Too young for the unintended humor too!

 

[Loboxxx]

Yes, but no. The problem is that only the adaptations of casual games, children's games, etc. succeed. Few "adult" games have managed to work in cinemas.

I only remember some success, but in TV format, like The last of us, Arcane and little else. It's a shame, because there is potential.

 

[Loomy]

Fans hated the movie and the game reboot.

Which is a shame because both the reboot and Rift Apart were very good R&C games.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Yes, but no. The problem is that only the adaptations of casual games, children's games, etc. succeed. Few "adult" games have managed to work in cinemas.

I only remember some success, but in TV format, like The last of us, Arcane and little else. It's a shame, because there is potential.

We're in early days. Movies require large budgets and Hollywood is just now realizing the potential of full scale adaptations.

TLOU could have been a movie, but a franchise of movies? That would have been more difficult without more games. Just as more seasons will prove difficult without more games.

We had a whole YA revolution, largely kicked off by Harry Potter. The first movie had a budget of 125 million dollars. That was in 2001...The Uncharted movie had a budget of 120 million in 2022... meanwhile the latest Mission Impossible movie has a budget of 400 million. If adult games are going to be billion dollar movie franchises, they're going to need significantly larger budgets, which is a risk. Hollywood is still testing out the waters.

Right now it's easier to make a Minecraft movie for 150 million and make a billion dollars because kids will see it regardless of how shit it is.

 

[PlayStaytion]

I'm usually interested in medieval shows, some video games adapted shows and a few prodigies every decade. I don't call that abandoning the hobby.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Gaf is turning into a nursery home, isn't it?

 

[Icymanipulator]

You don't have to know a single thing about League of Legends to appreciate how awesome the show Arcane is.

This is exactly me. Never played LoL at all, don't know anything about it. Watched the show with my gf because the art style looked cool and we loved it. Both seasons. An amazing show.
Still haven't played the games though, and probably never will.