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Personally I'm keeping my expectations low on this one. Game adaption to movie seem to always go to shit. Though personally would love a movie about the Bloodborne universe. I imagine a horror mystery movie about it.
I really wish studios would just start hiring writters and making original content. Im so bored of everything being ripped from other media.
i agree i immediately do not care about franchise products these days
Doing Edge of Tomorrow style Progression where one actor plays different classes and steadily progresses could be an option. Explore the world from a changing perspective.
Video game movies have a chance of being good, they are almost always trash with a slim chance of being good. For a game with a lot of lore and no plot, the chance of being good is close to zero.
Maybe a miracle will happen.
I think about this a lot
I love the idea of media expanding on the lore, but needing to insert a plot could ruin it
My only "solution" is a TV series instead of a movie and every episode should be a separate story
I’m cautiously optimistic. The lack of a plot in the game leaves a lot of creative room for the film and the deep lore gives them a lot to work with. Also it’s Alex garland and a24 so like. I’m in.
The lack of a plot in the game leaves a lot of creative room for the film and the deep lore gives them a lot to work with.
But also adds more chance of the movie to fuck up the lore for the sake of the movie's plot.
It could absolutely be a dumpster fire but I trust a24 to not fuck it up. They have a great track record and I think the whole minimalist storytelling thing is right in their wheelhouse. Time will tell though.
Hope they make something trippy like The Green Knight
There is a plot?
This noob missed the plot.
Git gud.
Never played. I always thought it had horrible story telling intentionally. From soft games feel like reading a redacted report.
I'm sure they'll fuck it up.
Name one good (serious) videogame movie. One.
WoW, Prince of Persia
It's not a movie, but the Fallout series had a great first season, and I'm looking forward to the second.
The last of us was great too. Not a movie still. But .
The original Mortal Kombat movie. The newest Sonic movie was also pretty good imo.
But yes, this can probably go very wrong.
First, it's A24 and they put out amazing movies .
Second, Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros Movie, and I'm not sure if it would count, but Wreck It Ralph are all good video game movies.
You just listed a bunch of animated children's movies?
If you're looking for actual examples there's Silent Hill, Fallout, or The Last of Us.
Wreck It Ralph doesn't count because it wasn't based on an actual video game, but on video games in general. But it was indeed great.
I don't know, just because the video game isn't real doesn't mean that the movie isn't based off of a video game. I think it just shows that the reason most video game movies fail isn't because the movie is bad, but because the fans are too harsh. If Wreck It Ralph replaced the main characters with characters from Mario but still had the same basic plot I don't think it would have been as well received.
Super Mario Bros. (1993) was a cult classic.
The 2023 movie is forgettable garbage.
The Sonic movies are fun though. Knuckles TV as well.
The Hoper Mario is something - it's so off the rails, that it's crusing on anothet track.
I wonder it is going to be THE Elden Ring story or An Elden Ring story, a small contained story in the Elden Ring world could fly really well, bonus points if Patches kicks the protagonist off a cliff.
my preference would be a film about the shattering, giving us some (but not too much) more insight into just what fucked the world up so godsdamned much.
but that would need to be extremely faithful to the lore and character designs and i just don't see hollywood showing up for that.
Normally I'd agree, but it being A24 makes me very hopeful.
Does Last of Us count? Sonic movies and Mario were pretty decent too.
Street Fighter. It's fantastically bad.
Silent Hill
That one got a lot of hate, but I actually liked it. Not so much the second one, though.
Alex Garland has made some pretty good movies, so there's a chance. I thought his instincts with annihilation were pretty much spot on. But yeah, movies based on games do not have a great track record.
Its funny in this case because not "fucking it up" effectively means making a movie that's barely related to the game outside of the basic setting.
What… uh… I can’t imagine this movie being weird enough to feel like a movie based on a FROMSOFT game while still being accessible to the wide audience needed for a big budget fantasy movie to make money.
After seeing The Green Knight I trust A24 to get this right. They are not the kind of studio that cares about the lowest common denominator. Don’t get me wrong, they can be very approachable/broader appeal when they want to as we see with their Oscar runs. But their movies definitely often target more niche audiences. Elden ring has a large enough fan base that they can count on a decent number of people showing up.
“I’ll soon birth thee anew.” — Alex Garland
Can you make a movie out of pure lore? Maybe a prequel, like The Fall of Hoarah Loux or Ranni's Rebellion? Will the audience be required to parry things?
Sorry, best we can do is having the audience dodge roll every scene.
Didnt the John Wick movies usee the role effect? Using this one to introduce the dodge role would be funny.
"A24" is the only thing here that gives me a tiny bit of hope.
I kind of hate Elden Ring. I've played plenty of these games, but I've died easily like 2 or 3 times more here. And, more often than ever, I don't know what to do next, which is easily compensated with another couple of deaths. Nah, I will never watch this.