Wii Warm Up: Made into a movie?

by David Hinkle { Nov 25th 2008 at 8:00AM }

Yesterday's very awesome trailer for a Mega Man movie got us thinking. What game property would you like to see made into a film? Hollywood has tried to do it several times and pretty much failed through and through, but with what source material would you like them to try to make a competent film? A Legend of Zelda movie? Would you like to see F-Zero: The Movie? Well, out with it!

Tags: f-zero, legend-of-zelda, mega-man, video-game-film, video-game-movie

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mr Khan @ Nov 25th 2008 8:09AM

Whatever happened to that Metroid movie i heard being tossed about in the years after Prime resurrected the series?

TJF588 @ Nov 25th 2008 8:56AM

Seconding the Metroid sentiment, though I'd LOVE for them to go realistic-CG with it, so they can keep Jennifer Hale as a voice and really go all-out on the inevitable Ridley battle. C'mon, FF:TSW showed us that realism is possible in CGI (at least in texturing), FFVIIAC showed us what crazy **** you can pull off in it (esp. with a non-real camera), and the Shrek guys'd said that they'd made Fiona look too real compared to the rest of the movie. I'm tired of seeing recognizable people playing as video game characters, and I'm tired of all pure-CG being cartoony. For once, blend the two into sheer awesome, and what better to do so with than Nintendo's most hardcore mainstay series (would've said "awesome", but interpretations might lead some to call out TLoZ, though I guess "hardcore" also carries assumptions; I mean it in the Duke Nukem sort of badassery type o' hardcore (or pr0n?)).

KeegdnaB @ Nov 25th 2008 2:17PM

Absolutly agreed on the CG sentiment.
To go one further, look at what Pixar did with WALL-E. The scenes on Earth looked so real there were a few times I really did forget it was animated.

A CG Metroid movie would just be glorious. It would definately preventing it getting "hollywood-ized" which is the main reason most video game movies suck hard. They'd just need good voice acting and stick to the story (either the original, compress 1 2 and super into a single longer story, or the prime series)

Haohmaru @ Nov 25th 2008 8:37AM

No More Heroes?

ZaxCG2 @ Nov 25th 2008 10:00AM

Was just about to say that.
But think- they'd have to try REALLY HARD to make it more awesome than the game. Probably would be best animated.

WiiWiiWiiallthewayhome @ Nov 25th 2008 9:16AM

Kingdom Hearts! I don't care what people say, I am a 24 year old man, and that game rocks my socks off. It would be an incredible movie, if done well. Also, a GOOD Mario movie would be fantastic, not that piece of junk with Bob Hoskins & John Leguizamos. Also, an Ultimate Alliance movie would just be.........mmmmmmmm.

ZaxCG2 @ Nov 25th 2008 10:02AM

3 words:
The Avengers Movie.

godzooki @ Nov 25th 2008 9:33AM

"Hollywood has tried to do it several times and pretty much failed through and through"

obviously someone hasn't seen STREET FIGHTER with thespian jean-Claude VAN DAMME!!!

i vote NO MORE HEROES, Hong Kong-style with Donnie Yen in the lead role. in the improved Hollywood remake, we'll go with Shie Lebouf or one of the Jonas brothers.

samfish @ Nov 25th 2008 9:46AM

I'd punch babies for a good Zelda movie. Just give it to a respectable director, rather than one of the usual go-to hacks who make videogame movies.

ZaxCG2 @ Nov 25th 2008 10:01AM

IE: Uwe Boll

Scotty @ Nov 25th 2008 3:50PM

I might punch babies anyway, sounds fun.

leonus11 @ Nov 25th 2008 7:41PM

lmao!! talk about baby abuse! rofl!

Nerdz @ Nov 25th 2008 9:55AM

http://movies.ign.com/dor/articles/863515/legend-of-zelda-movie-trailer/videos/legendofzelda_filmtrailer_040108.html

Wish this was true! Sad April fool... :(

SyN DracuL @ Nov 25th 2008 10:19AM

I agree, I was sad that was a joke too.
they need to make that a movie, but definitely need better looking actors, at least for Link, Zelda and Gannon, I mean, come on, they all looked like shit...

Thunderbird @ Nov 25th 2008 6:53PM

http://www.legendofzeldaseries.com/main.php?page=fanmovie.html
This one isn't a joke.

Adrian @ Nov 25th 2008 10:09AM

First of all, super mario brothers was an amazing movie......ok, maybe not, but I loved it anyway. I would like to see a star fox movie!

Go1denchi1d @ Nov 25th 2008 12:10PM

youre right, it wasnt amazing. it was splendiforous!!!!! i mean they stabbed yoshi! thats a movie im down for!

SyN DracuL @ Nov 25th 2008 10:15AM

A good Mario movie, that doesn't tarnish Ninty's image.
A Zelda movie would be great as well...

I think that the main reason that more game movies don't get made is that expectations are too high. But we just need a catalyst to set the stone in motion(like Spider-Man to the rebirth of Comic Book Movies)

bearmedal @ Nov 25th 2008 11:06AM

I think a Phoenix Wright movie could be a murder-mystery. Think about it: it'd be like A Shot in the Dark in a courtroom.

Go1denchi1d @ Nov 25th 2008 12:11PM

A movie I'd like to see is Bubble Bobble. How awesome would that be to "high" society! ;-)

TX2 @ Nov 25th 2008 12:29PM

I'd like to see the original Final Fantasy made into a movie, but in the style of Red vs Blue or 8 Bit Theater.
A real sense of humor and the community surrounding the franchise is the only way a truly great movie will be made out of a video game.

Zealot @ Nov 25th 2008 1:06PM

One of my greatest game-to-film adaptation dreams was realized when news about Oddworld: Citizen Siege came out a few years ago, but apparently the project has long since died, which is extremely disappointing.

Matt @ Nov 25th 2008 1:25PM

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People

in before "that's already a movie".

saylorsgang @ Nov 25th 2008 1:29PM

I can't belive there has only been one mention of Metroid!! Come on, Angelina Jolie as Samus!! Hal-Life series would make for a great movie too IMO.

SeannyD @ Nov 25th 2008 1:43PM

F-Zero was already made into a movie. It was called "Speed Racer." And I loved every minute of it.

Taz @ Nov 25th 2008 2:07PM

WarioWare!

or

Tetris!

TheCoats @ Nov 25th 2008 2:12PM

I think Zack and Wiki would make a good kids movie without messing up the game to much - seems like a simple transition

pjsingh @ Nov 25th 2008 3:04PM

halo series lol. "Master Chief, mind telling me what your doing on that ship?"
"Sir. Finishing this fight"

Rez Delnava @ Nov 25th 2008 3:17PM

Skies of Arcadia... Do it on a green screen with good actors and then CG the all of the backgrounds.

RasenganFury @ Nov 25th 2008 4:31PM

I definitely agree with the Metroid movie. Having the great CG used in FFVII:AC along with some great voice actors would prove for an awesome movie. I don't see a Zelda movie being made because of the fact that Link never talks.

Killerrabbit @ Nov 25th 2008 5:07PM

Dude, Pac Man all the way!

Gundam_Warrior @ Nov 25th 2008 5:17PM

Newcomers -

Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Dead Rising
Psychonauts (CGI or motion capture)
Okami (anime only)
Mega Man (anime only)
No More Heroes
Splatterhouse
Bully

Redos- If they can relaunch Batman and the Hulk these can certainly be done.

Super Mario Bros with Studio Ghibli at the helm.

Resident Evil - take out Paul W. S. Anderson & Milla Jovovich and bring inZombie Directing God George A. Romero.

Tadhg @ Nov 25th 2008 5:49PM

Zelda is my number one choice, but the casting would be so hard. Metroid is more likely, but they need to go R with it. Not necessarily Hostel R, just R. I know that a lot of kids wouldn't be able to see it, but they would end up just getting it on DVD anyway.