Video game adaptations have had a long and troubled history. Recently the long-in-development Halo adaptation finally made it to the screens on Paramount+ to less than stellar word of mouth. Some video game adaptations have a long production that could take anywhere between 5-10 years before finally making it to the big or small screen.

Halo isn't the only adaptation to stay in development hell and it's not the only one to disappoint audiences when it finally arrived. A number of films and shows based on video games have had long-gestating developments that ended up disappointing in the long run.

Max Payne (2008)

Max stands in front of a winged demon in Max Payne

Max Payne was based on the video game of the same name and follows an NYPD detective on the case of a drug cartel that could have connections to his family's murder. He's also a suspect in the murder of his partner so he has to team up with an assassin to find a way to clear his name. There also might be demons involved but the film doesn't make it clear if it's real or a hallucination.

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The adaptation began life in 2001 and wasn't released until 2008. Script revisions prevented the film from finally making it to the big screen. The film strays pretty far from the video games, so much so that the game director publicly disowned the movie. The reception to the film, especially from game fans, was overwhelmingly negative.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

Jake Gyllenhaal holds a sword in a hall in Prince of Persia

Jake Gyllenhaal plays the Persian prince Dastan in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. In this film, Dastan is framed for killing his father when they invade another kingdom where the Sands of Time reside. Dastan gets his hands on a dagger that can rewind time a few minutes and goes on a quest to stop his uncle, who was the real murderer.

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was first announced in 2004 when Jerry Bruckheimer acquired the rights to the game of the same name. He took the film to Disney where it languished for a number of years, before finally picking up steam in 2008 for a 2010 release. Even though it was labeled as a forgettable but fun swashbuckler, at the time, game fans were quick to dismiss it as a pale imitation of what made the games so interesting; not to mention the choice of Gyllenhaal as the lead character, who although a fantastic actor, is not of Persian heritage. Gyllenhaal would later go on to express his regrets when it came to the film.

Silent Hill: Revelations (2012)

Silent Hill Revelation Heather Mason in the fire

Silent Hill: Revelationsthe sequel to Silent Hill, follows Sean Bean's character as he moves his adopted daughter from town to town to try and protect her from being captured by The Order. She's being sought after because she's from Silent Hill and the residents want her back. She'll have to return when her adoptive father gets captured and brought there.

The relative success of 2006's Silent Hill adaptation had the studio interested in a second film and development started almost right away. Unfortunately, production stalled when the screenwriter, Roger Avary, was sentenced to 1-year in prison due to vehicular manslaughter, and the director of the first film, Christopher Gans, was asked not to return. Finally, production began in 2011 and the film was released in 2012. The longer production time did not save it, however, and the film was received worse than the first one and currently holds one of the lowest scores on Rotten Tomatoes. Somehow, they turned one of the scariest villains into a hero.

Warcraft (2016)

Durotan and Orgrim prepare for battle in the Warcraft movie

Based on the first game that inspired the massively popular online game World of WarcraftWarcraft tells the origin of the battle between the Alliance and the Horde. When the Orcs invade the world of Azeroth, the kingdoms of Azeroth have to unite to fight back the Fel magic that the Horde brings. Luckily, there are some Orcs who also wish to see the conflict end.

The project was officially announced in 2006 and wouldn't see the light of day until 2016. Uwe Boll made a bid to direct it before it went to Sam Raimi. Sam Raimi dropped out and Duncan Jones was the one to finally get it to the finish line. While the passion for the project was there since Jones was a big fan beforehand, the project was considered to be too big of a task. Condensing all the lore of the games into a single film left critics and audiences disappointed.

Tomb Raider (2018)

Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider 2018

Tomb Raider serves as a reboot and a new origin story for the character of Lara Croft. The young adventurer is left by her father as a little girl and she grows up on the streets of London. She soon discovered that her father was looking to uncover the lost tomb of the mythical queen Himiko and he got very close. She charters a boat to find the island where he disappeared to.

Technically the film started life as a sequel to Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life in 2004, but movement on that stalled when the director decided he didn't want to make another. Instead, after many years, the decision was made to develop a reboot which would be an adaptation of the new "Survivor Trilogy" of games. Production on the reboot started in 2011 and the film was finally released in 2018. Even though the film stripped some of the more exciting video game elements and ended up falling a little flat with audiences and critics, Ranker considers Tomb Raider one of the best video game movies.

Uncharted (2022)

uncharted movie stunts

The Tom Holland-led adaptation, Uncharted, finally saw the light of day this year. In it, Holland plays Nathan Drake, who's a bartender and part-time thief. He gets recruited by Sully, a full-time thief, to help him find the missing treasure of the Magellan expedition. They have to stay ahead of the bad guys who also want the treasure and along the way, Nate finds out that Sully knew his brother Sam and may know what happened to him.

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Uncharted began production in 2008, with Mark Wahlberg officially signed on as Nathan Drake in 2010. Because of the various script rewrites and director changes, the film took 12 years to finally begin filming. Wahlberg had outgrown the role by the time pre-production began so he was recast as Sully, and the script was reworked to be about a younger Drake than the games so they could cast Holland. When the film finally came, fans of the games hated it. It's not a very interesting adventure film and it gets the beloved video game characters all wrong. However, Uncharted isn't completely unfaithful to the games.

Halo (2022)

Cortana in the Halo series

The Halo TV series acts as a retelling of the events that precede the video game of the same name. Master Chief is being plagued by his lost memories of his childhood and he teams up with a young girl named Kwan to discover what the Covenant is planning. Turns out they're both "blessed" with the ability to activate Forerunner technology that the Covenant are after.

An adaptation of Halo had been in the works since 2007. At the time it was conceived as a movie and by 2013, production shifted to a TV series on Showtime. Finally, the series came to the small screen this year, after 15 of development hell. Audiences are mostly negative about the series as of the ending of the first season, but it does have its fans. However, the show takes a lot of liberties and strays from what many believe the core of the Halo franchise is - the relationship between Master Cheif and Cortana.

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