With the new Mortal Kombat (2021) releasing on HBO Max this weekend, I decided to talk about five video games that should have their own movies or TV shows. I probably won’t review Mortal Kombat since I don’t have a connection with the original games, but with HBO’s The Last Of Us series, an Uncharted movie, Netflix’s Witcher Season 2, a Metal Gear Solid movie, AND a Kingdom Hearts Disney+ Series in the works, I figured now was the best time to pitch for video game adaptations that I want to see in the future.
What happened to Steven Spielberg’s Halo show? What about Netflix’s Legend of Zelda show?
My Five Picks For A Movie or TV Show/Series:
#5 The Wolf Among Us 1:03
#4 Grand Theft Auto 3:05
#3 Halo 4:36
#2 The Legend of Zelda 5:58
#1 Bioshock 7:50
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The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask Short Film “Terrible Fate”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqc4gno0Hso
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I'm SO glad you re-brought up the Tarantino/GTA idea because his style with the story and characters of GTA 5 in particular would fit perfectly! Plus seeing Steven Ogg as Trevor in live-action would be amazing. Having just replayed L.A. Noire I'd love to see that as a TV series.
That Halo movie which had Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp which eventually transformed to its own monster of District 9 could’ve been pretty neat. Love Halo 2 and 3, hood classics from my youth. But apparently the showtime series is actually happening and is coming to us by 2022? Not certain if Spielberg is still behind that though.
The cancelled Gore Verbenski Bioshock movie that recently resurfaced this year sounded dope too. Still my favorite video game of all time. The only other filmmaker I’d have behind that project would be Shane Acker (9), think he’d nail the atmosphere of Rapture as well as the size and weight of the Big Daddy’s. With my dream cast of Robert Pattinson, Hugh Jackman, Tilda Swindon, Colin Farrell, and Tom Hardy.
Might be too ambitious, but a God of War HBO series would be sweet
I feel like all of these picks are pretty predictable. Kinda shows you havent played many games. Bioshock 1 would be a good pick though.
The first diablo game would translate into a good movie series, could even kick into a franchise with thr 2nd game because of how those stories are connected. There are books for the story so it would be an easy one to do. Cant really think of much else that would really work, valkyrie profile and breath of fire 4 have some amazing plot hooks that could work but I'm skeptical they could be done justice outside of a their games now.
You should check out this game called INSIDE, dudes who made LIMBO made it and I think that would adapt wonderfully to a movie since the message is straight to the point and has a WILD ending.
Hollow Knight would be a great animated TV series. Same with Undertale, think of Wes Anderson humor but on steroids but with bizarre monsters.
This indie game called Gris is an amazing artistic depiction of depression.
But the one adaptation I wanna see the most…FIFA.