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Brother Entropy posted:i wonder how much of it might be sony or naughty dog being too precious about how their very boring protagonist should and shouldn't be portrayed and that clashing with the rotating glass door of directors who want to do anything beyond what's been portrayed in the video games The majority of it is probably scheduling. The movie’s 6 directors go back 7-8 years. This one definitely is, the director had already threatened to walk if he couldn’t begin shooting soon. Then the Sony/Marvel deal went back into effect and Holland got tied up with the new Spider-Man. The delay in announcing is probably sorting out the legalese of Sony and the director coming a mutual agreement on terminating the contract.
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Brother Entropy posted:i wonder how much of it might be sony or naughty dog being too precious about how their very boring protagonist should and shouldn't be portrayed and that clashing with the rotating glass door of directors who want to do anything beyond what's been portrayed in the video games If I'm remembering correctly, this is why the Halo movie never happened. Microsoft was wanting a ridiculous amount of control over things and was trying to dictate the exact terms of the movie deal, and they basically got laughed out of Hollywood. For the best, honestly. FAKE EDIT: Yeah here's a good article about it: https://www.wired.com/2012/04/halo-movie-generation-xbox/ The story behind it is even more ridiculous than I had remembered it being. Vandar fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Jan 26, 2020 |
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Ok, so apparently the Internet Archive has Mortal Kombat just available to watch for free? https://archive.org/details/MortalKombat1995 Enjoy!
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# ? Jan 26, 2020 08:21 |
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Uncharted already had the original Drake instead get cast as Sully. So I can't wait until this movie spends so long in Development Hell to where the same thing happens with Tom Holland.
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Vandar posted:If I'm remembering correctly, this is why the Halo movie never happened. Microsoft was wanting a ridiculous amount of control over things and was trying to dictate the exact terms of the movie deal, and they basically got laughed out of Hollywood. The funny thing is that District 9 ended up being made basically out of the leftover money.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Wouldn’t a live-action Disney Tarzan movie just be like a normal Tarzan movie? Warner Bros made a live-action Tarzan movie a couple of years ago set in king Leopold's Congo. It was extremely yikes. Brother Entropy posted:i wonder how much of it might be sony or naughty dog being too precious about how their very boring protagonist should and shouldn't be portrayed and that clashing with the rotating glass door of directors who want to do anything beyond what's been portrayed in the video games Alhazred fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Jan 26, 2020 |
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Len posted:Sleeping Beauty and Snow White are still on a poo poo load of merchandise though They also remade Pete's Dragon back in 2016, and they've been steadily recycling their old live actions movies like Flubber with Robin Williams in 1997, The Shaggy Dog with Tim Allen in 2006, Race to Witch Mountain with Dwayne Johnson in 2009, etc etc etc.. They've already remade Freaky Friday three times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disney_film_remakes
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Barudak posted:The Mortal Kombat movie succeeds because it is the thing its ripping off, a tournament of death between weird kung fu masters I rewatched it recently, it's extremely straightforward and unashamed of what it is. The character are set up and get to where they need to be for the tournament to start with a minimum of fuss, it was quite refreshing to see.
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# ? Jan 26, 2020 13:07 |
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Kind of the other issue with video game movies is that game studios have learned the hard way if you leave Hollywood to their own devices you have no idea what the gently caress they'll do. Nintendo in particular is very leery of movies after the Super Mario Bros debacle, and only recently I heard Illumination is working on a Mario movie at some point. The Sonic movie seems to be a case where they had to get a universal reaction of 'what the gently caress? lol this movie is going to be so poo poo' as a wake up call that maybe they should have actually listened to Sega and used the design notes from a character who remains massively popular despite being in maybe four good games.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:Also while I was looking that up I found out they're working on a new Mortal Kombat film for 2021. I'm* an extra in it! *No indication of quality.
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In which year will Disney produce a live-action Frozen remake?
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Comrade Fakename posted:In which year will Disney produce a live-action Frozen remake? The year the animated ones stops being profitable.
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Comrade Fakename posted:In which year will Disney produce a live-action Frozen remake? They are planning to do Lilo & Stitch, so it might not be long. They actually did sort of do a live action Frozen sequel in Once Upon A Time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30JMPiTRy18 The MSJ fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Jan 26, 2020 |
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Disney could just do theatrical runs of their old animated movies and still make money but nah that makes too much sense.
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Vandar posted:If I'm remembering correctly, this is why the Halo movie never happened. Microsoft was wanting a ridiculous amount of control over things and was trying to dictate the exact terms of the movie deal, and they basically got laughed out of Hollywood. Halo is a classic example of the problem with adapting video games to movies because it's exactly the kind of massively popular video game you would want to adapt into a movie, but the plot of halo is only interesting if you're the one playing it as a shooting game. It's just a faceless man with zero personality or character growth being told to go from A to B to C, all on his own, to shoot ever-larger crowds of aliens. It would be easier to adapt it into an exibition of paintings than a movie, because if you take away the fun of playing the game the only thing left is the visual spectacle. Almost all video game plots have this problem because enjoying things as a passive observer and as an active participant are two very different things that tend to rely on very different story elements
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Disney could just do theatrical runs of their old animated movies and still make money but nah that makes too much sense. They used to re-release their classic animated films all the time - the 1967 animated Jungle Book film was re-released in 1984 ($23 million box office), 1990 ($45m BO) and has a limited overseas release in 2000 ($4.5m BO). They also attempted a live action remake with trained animals in 1994 ($43m BO) and a 2D animated sequel to the '67 film in 2003 ($135m BO) and various straight-to-DVD features plus animated TV series, all of which utterly pales into insignificance against the 2016 CGI "live action" remake ($966m BO). Disney have spent many many decades trying every technique available to wring as much cash out of their back catalogue as possible.
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Every studio used to constantly released their old movies. It's why Gone With the Wind has the highest adjusted box office, it was released something like 37 times. Before vhs became so ubiquitous in the 80s it was the only way for people to rewatch old movies.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Every studio used to constantly released their old movies. It's why Gone With the Wind has the highest adjusted box office, it was released something like 37 times. Before vhs became so ubiquitous in the 80s it was the only way for people to rewatch old movies. And even after that Disney kept trying to get audiences to buy tickets to their classic films with 'special edition' releases, such as when they re-released the '94 animated Lion King in IMAX in 2002 and then in 3D wide release in 2011.
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Red Bones posted:Halo is a classic example of the problem with adapting video games to movies because it's exactly the kind of massively popular video game you would want to adapt into a movie, but the plot of halo is only interesting if you're the one playing it as a shooting game. It's just a faceless man with zero personality or character growth being told to go from A to B to C, all on his own, to shoot ever-larger crowds of aliens. It would be easier to adapt it into an exibition of paintings than a movie, because if you take away the fun of playing the game the only thing left is the visual spectacle. Fuckin Doom is a better sell for a movie than Halo, because it least has the hook of being Die Hard In Hell with a side of anticorporatism
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Halo does at least have a whole space opera backstory where a war with religious fanatic aliens is mixed in with a Niven ringworld, its robot defenders and off-brand Zerg, and a whole ancient aliens background, but a protagonist who literally never removes his helmet isn't something Hollywood plays well with. (see Judge Dredd) Rampage is a funny case given it takes major liberties with what passes for the story of the franchise, but keeps the key points and absolutely maintains the spirit of the idea, and as a result is a serviceable B-Movie much like what the original game was clearly meant to evoke.
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The thing is even though video games mostly have bad stories or no stories the movie adaptations are often dumber. The Doom movie has a dumber premise than "hell starts invading a Mars base".
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I know the novels (lol) explained this, but I forget if the games ever explicit state that the demons are actually interdimentional aliens that either psychology mined us for our fears and echoed that or if it was a childhood's end-esque thing where they inspired our demon imagery.
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What happened with the Doom movie was that the studio pussed out and didn't want to upset Christians by making a movie about demons.
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Doom is the most Christian game ever EDIT: While I was looking for that picture I found an unrelated pic of Doomslayer teaching Rapunzel how to use a gun
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Casimir Radon posted:What happened with the Doom movie was that the studio pussed out and didn't want to upset Christians by making a movie about demons. They released it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom:_Annihilation
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Alhazred posted:They released it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom:_Annihilation
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I honestly think it's kinda weird that a movie about killing demons were bad but a movie about how some people are genetically predisposed to be evil was good.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:EDIT: While I was looking for that picture I found an unrelated pic of Doomslayer teaching Rapunzel how to use a gun There's an entire series of these, actually.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I know the novels (lol) explained this, but I forget if the games ever explicit state that the demons are actually interdimentional aliens that either psychology mined us for our fears and echoed that or if it was a childhood's end-esque thing where they inspired our demon imagery. The recent games play it the other way where the evil idiot corporation tapping Hell for energy ends up gradually losing the pretence for being a demon cult sacrificing its employees for power Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:There's an entire series of these, actually. Doom Slayer and Isabelle being friends is a whole genre of art from hopeful Smash Bros fans
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The recent games play it the other way where the evil idiot corporation tapping Hell for energy ends up gradually losing the pretence for being a demon cult sacrificing its employees for power
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Halo does at least have a whole space opera backstory where a war with religious fanatic aliens is mixed in with a Niven ringworld, its robot defenders and off-brand Zerg, and a whole ancient aliens background, but a protagonist who literally never removes his helmet isn't something Hollywood plays well with. (see Judge Dredd) They're filming a Halo TV series right now with Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I know the novels (lol) explained this, but I forget if the games ever explicit state that the demons are actually interdimentional aliens that either psychology mined us for our fears and echoed that or if it was a childhood's end-esque thing where they inspired our demon imagery. In the original games they're actual demons from Hell. In the novels the aliens originally visited us in the Middle Ages and thought we'd still think demons were actual flesh and blood beings but we advanced faster than any known species so they didn't expect us to be space-faring when they came back.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I know the novels (lol) explained this, but I forget if the games ever explicit state that the demons are actually interdimentional aliens that either psychology mined us for our fears and echoed that or if it was a childhood's end-esque thing where they inspired our demon imagery. Pretty sure even the original games have the demons be actually from Hell. The books didn’t have much to do with the games beyond the first one: they later had the protagonist escape to Salt Lake City where he meets the leader of the resistance fighting the aliens, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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There is supposedly a live-action remake of The Sword in the Stone being made for Disney+ because the world can never have too many movies about King Arthur. At least this one will be Arthur as a kid and it will have a crazy talking owl. (It better have the owl) edit: also, reading wikipedia apparently the english version of the cartoon had 3 different voice actors for Arthur. I only ever watched the danish dub so it struck me as a bit weird. quote:Rickie Sorensen, Richard Reitherman, and Robert Reitherman as Arthur, also known as Wart, Disney's adaptation of legendary British leader King Arthur. Arthur was voiced by three actors, leading to noticeable changes in voice between scenes — and sometimes, within the same scene. Also, the three voices have American accents, sharply contrasting with the English setting and the accents spoken by most of the other characters in the film. Mari Ness of the online magazine Tor.com suggests that, "Given that the film is about growing up, this problem might have been overcome" with the three voices being interpreted as Arthur's character development both mentally and physically; however, she also notes that "the director inexplicably chose to leave all three voices in for some scenes, drawing attention to the problem that they were not the same actor." She notes even further that "Two [of the voice actors] were brothers, and sound somewhat similar; the third was not, and sounds distinctly different." Finally, she notes the issue of the American accents of the voices contrasting with the English setting and the accents spoken by most of the other characters in the film, noting that "The only positive: the vocal issues with Wart do help distract attention from the fact that the Brits aren’t particularly good here either."
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The Legend of Tarzan was about as good as a modern day Tarzan movie is going to be. No point failing at something like that so soon.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The recent games play it the other way where the evil idiot corporation tapping Hell for energy ends up gradually losing the pretence for being a demon cult sacrificing its employees for power Its actually a little of both! The UAC kicked open a door into hell so they could use it as a fuel source before splitting into competing Devil Worshipper and Turbo Capitalist factions, but the demons are also interdimensional colonists who invade universes to harvest their life energy. It's got a fun dynamic where the Doomguy is basically the only guy who realizes that they're both two sides of the same coin.
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Doom 2016 was amazing and I don't get why prelaunch everyone said it was going to be garbage. But yeah it's great because you start and the facility is full of regular signage and then turns into poo poo like "don't forget to sacrifice a cat this coming Friday!"
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Len posted:Doom 2016 was amazing and I don't get why prelaunch everyone said it was going to be garbage. It's because much of the advertising campaign was focused on multiplayer, not the singleplayer ripping and tearing
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Halo does at least have a whole space opera backstory where a war with religious fanatic aliens is mixed in with a Niven ringworld, its robot defenders and off-brand Zerg, and a whole ancient aliens background, but a protagonist who literally never removes his helmet isn't something Hollywood plays well with. (see Judge Dredd) Hell yeah, Rampage ruled. The best video game movies are the ones not actually based on specific games though: Wreck-It Ralph, Jumanji with the Rock, and the second Jumanji with the Rock.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:It's because much of the advertising campaign was focused on multiplayer, not the singleplayer ripping and tearing Must be because I only saw trailers but they did a real good job showing off the ripping and tearing https://youtu.be/SgSrpnW0EmU https://youtu.be/omWEZI0cT1g https://youtu.be/RO90omga8D4
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