David Russell ditches Uncharted film

NATHAN FILLION!!!

"Creative Differences" thank god. They didn't like his bullshit either. And there's more hope that the Nathan Fillion part might be played by the guy after all.

Well I now have hope. Sony has proven that they are not Douchebags only a bunch of idiotic fools with a collective of one braincell

Motherfucking seconded. Nathan Fillion would be perfect for this. Hopefully this move by Sony is a sign that they're interested in making the movie actually stay true to the game instead of doing what all the other game-to-movie adaptations do, which is completely fuck everything up and ruin it all the time.

How'd that Halo movie adaption go, by the way?

Fox and Universal Studios pulled out of funding it because Microsoft was asking for too much of the share of profits as well as because of concerns of the risks at the time when director Neil Blomkamp had no real feature film experience yet. It's cancelled.

Well, so much for that. Can't say I saw it making a good movie anyway - it seems that, these days, you either have to completely butcher a the origins of the movie to make it decent (For instance, Doom. SHUT UP I LIKED IT) or run with it and kind of suck.

Actually half the reason why most of them turn out so bad is because they completely butcher the origins of the movie, not because they had to change the story in order to make it watchable. The other half in my view is that they keep picking all the wrong games to make into movies.

Such as Doom.

Nah but seriously, who honestly gave a shit that Blood Rayne or Dungeon Siege got made into movies? I mean even if they actually turned out to be half way decent (which they weren't), still no one should/would care. I want fucking Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, etc. You know, games that actually have a good foundational story to begin with that could easily be adapted to the big screen, not mindless action games and hack 'n slashes that had no story or popularity in the first place.

The way i see it is if you were a fan of the games before the movie than you won't like the movie. Same as if you were a fan of the book than you will hate its movie.

Some movie's just fail, its a fact. Movies like eragon/golden compass are just fails, even if you didn't read the book. than you have ones like percy jackson, kiddy movie so almost already wont like unless brilliant (wasn't) plus having read the books I was thinking, WRONG! the whole movie.

Than you have alright movies that depends on how much you were a fan of the series, like doom and prince of perisa (I liked both). And finally your taste in movies plays a major part with the dante's inferno anime epic (which i enjoyed watching but the changing the anime style all the way through was werid, kinda worked though)

That's generally true, but I think that has more to do with the fact that video game adaptations are just poor to begin with.

I think there are certainly a lot of people who are like this, but I don't necessarily agree that this is the rule all the time. I've read the books, but I still find the Harry Potter movies at least decently worthy adaptations even though the books are far superior. In fact, when it comes to Lord of the Rings, I think the movies are actually better than the books because quite frankly I think JRR Tolkien's writing style sucks. It's too drab and boring, but Peter Jackson was able to take it and inject some much-needed emotion into the story.

Ultimately regardless of what you're adapting, there are right ways and wrong ways to do it and they all have a chance to make a good movie if the team is passionate about the material and do their jobs right. It's just in the case of video games, they've pretty much always failed at that so far. I'm keeping my eye on the Warcraft and Uncharted movies now though; it seems with recent movies like Prince of Persia they've finally been starting to go in the right direction towards picking the right video games to adapt to the big screen, and these two have a chance to be the first ones I can call anything more than just decent.

I was generalising to begin with but you make an good and obvious point.

I agree with your point about harry potter and Lord of the rings however i've only read the hobbit.

I actually think that the Harry Potter movies are better then the books - and I didn't like either. I consider that an unbiased view.

You're definitely right about picking the right movies to adapt, Driz - games like DOOM should not have been chosen in the first place, it doesn't take a genius that it would suck as a movie without tampering with it.

There's also Uwe Boll who has a lot to do with the "games make crap movies" reputation. Fuck that guy.