Professor Layton heads for the silver screen
by Chris Greenhough 
{ Nov 28th 2008 at 7:00PM }
Not many DS games could be adapted into watchable films. Can you imagine Spielberg Presents Meteos, a sentimental tale of three little colored rocks who dream only about visiting space one day? Or Nintendogs: The Movie, a three-hour epic of going for walks, finding a new collar, going for walks, chucking a frisbee, and going for walks? See what we mean? Rubbish.
Then again, the Professor Layton series has the potential to be a very fine movie. Level 5 thinks so, anyway, because it plans to release Professor Layton The First Movie. For now, only a Japanese version is planned, with January 2010 being mooted as a possible release window. This makes perfect sense, obviously, because the games themselves are already full of beautifully-animated, Studio Ghibli-esque cut-scenes. And who is currently working with Level 5 on a forthcoming DS game? Exactly.
Plus, this might be the ideal time to get rid of the stomach-churning pipsqueak that is Luke, preferably through very violent means. Maybe he's not even in the movie, and they've axed the little git once and for -- ah, dammit.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David @ Nov 28th 2008 7:50PM
Forget the movie, when is Professor Layton and Pandora's box being release in North America???
FantomRedux @ Nov 28th 2008 7:57PM
They better still be british come the english, albeit inevitably straight-to-dvd, release. !
MBond42 @ Nov 28th 2008 9:48PM
EPIC WIN!!!
That was my initial reaction to this, however cliched or immature it may be. The Layton series would look excellent as a movie, especially if Studio Ghibi did support it. However, I am also of the opinion of David in that Professor Layton 2 needs to shipped to not-Japan before this film is released.
Kryptonite @ Nov 29th 2008 12:00AM
its not true that most ds games couldnt be made into movies... hell id love 2 see a metriod prime movie... they did it with doom 3, why not metriod?
PineappleClock @ Nov 29th 2008 12:34AM
You have obviously never seen Animal Crossing - the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyMDSPWwl0g
atastysammich @ Dec 1st 2008 2:14PM
Damn you PineappleClock, I was just about to make a joke about that.
HairyBalls @ Nov 29th 2008 9:08AM
Wouldn't a Meteos movie be more like the Aliens trying to save their planets from Meteo.
Jordan @ Nov 29th 2008 11:09AM
Now is the time, fansubbers. Now is the time for you to accomplish your greatest feat. For this...is YOUR DESTINY.
(Look, c'mon, you translated an entire video game! This is just a two-hour-long movie! Please?)
chibi_wings @ Nov 30th 2008 8:06PM
T________________T
where is our layton game?
j00 @ Dec 3rd 2008 3:33PM
If the movie holds the same quality as the game when it comes to story, music and animation, it will be BRILLIANT.