Are you serious? Do you have a source for this?

First off Christophe Gans is working on Fantomas movie also still attached to Onimusha with Samuel Hadida butthe project is still delayed and they should change some screenwriters
that should be all Japanese so Keiji Inafune is writing the script but Necronomicon co-writer Kazunori Ito should replace John Collee,Onimusha will have a cast and crew that are all Japanese.
Devil May Cry will be another game to film if Avi Arad and Larry Kasanoff to team up to produce the film while David S Goyer to write the script,Kasanoff should get the rights to Darkstalkers series with Capcom.
The Last,World Heroes the Street Fighter rip off game could go into a big screen with a loosely scifi action movie with special FX and a little Big Trouble In Little China storyline with an Alien marrying two female fighters,so there will be some Hollywood producers Rich Thorne Rodney Liber Matthew Rhodes and Shwan Williamson to make the World Heroes movie with Charles Stone III to co-write and direct the film.
Thank You.
BEUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.

This Sims movie concept looks like that Jim Carrey movie where his whole life was filmed.

As for the genre thing, I feel that certain games would fit better as movies within certain already established genres. It’s entirely up to the people involved whether that limits their potential or doesn’t. Take Mortal Kombat. The first game was about a Tournament, so they made it about a tournament. The game had gritty dark locales and so did the movie. While the violence of the games was toned down, most of the other thematic elements of the game where present. Street Fighter should have been like Bloodsport crossed with Dragonball. That’s Street Fighter 2 in a nutshell!

It was a great story and would’ve been much better the the one used for the 4th movie.

Maybe they will use it if ever a fifth or a reboot.

It would be a great movie were the movie “Gamer” not coming out later this year.

No. Good talent is only good if some one else says so. Most video games have decent stories that can be minimally altered to work as a flick. You’ve only hit the surface with your horror/martial arts statement, which only confines it to a label of a type of Genre. And not that I care much for Gone with the Wind, but when a director directs a good film the movie viewer expects that same type of quality. So Event Horizon was Gone With the Wind for Anderson and now his films overall suck. Not saying all that suck are solely the director’s fault, but they should be able to know crap when they are asked to direct crap.

The problem is, most studio execs don’t believe that a gaming audience is enough to make a movie a profit (which is true) an thus, they’ll try to milk as much money out of a movie as possible my making it stupidly accessible to wide audiences and thus you end up with mediocre movies with little artistic integrity. I’m like you, my film standards aren’t super high, but then no movie based on a game has given me as much enjoyment as, say Transformers.

I’ve seen the trailer for District 9, along with the short film, Alive in Joburg, both of which are very good and if Blonkamp was given the reigns for a Halo movie, it would likely be very good.

But let’s extract one of my examples.

Street Fighter. It is not that hard to see the kind of movie it would mostly fit. Hell, the first animated movie knew it. Even the makers of Mortal Kombat. It’s about FIGHTING. But executives, being blind to nothing but the flavor of the week, instead tried to “Batman Begins-it up” and the result was The Legend of Chun Li.

It’s important to note that I don’t have super high film standards. Hell, I enjoy things like Transformers. But Transformers had a budget, whereas more than half this game adaptations don’t. I know, the studios know they can make a lo budget movie, slap in Mario on the title, and make a a profit. BUT, if they did a game adaptation that was respectfull AND had a proper budget, they might make MORE money.

Have you seen the Trailer for District 9? Watch it. It’s directed by Neil Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson, who would have done Halo. It’s a cool glimpse of what might have been.

Pesonally, I think they should start adapting more old school game characters into CG films.I think that SOnic the Hedgehog, Megaman, Mario, Pacman and maybe Mischief Makers would make fine CG films. If they did a Tak TV series, I can’t see what’s so hard about adapting gaming’s most beloved icons to a CG enviroment.

Yes, on paper it seems like it should work.

I think the problem is, decent writer and directors tend to stay away from films based on games, and thus, we get crap.