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I'm still holding out for the Master Blaster movie.

"Just a boy, on his quest to find his beloved frog...."

Phydeaux wrote:

There was a DOA movie?

I hadn't heard this.

+1
No wonder it bombed. No theaters & no ad budget.

Never heard of a DOA movie either. Never saw a trailer. I might have added another $8 to that total if I had known.

Take a game about boobs and turn it into a movie. Great idea! Movies about boobies! They've never done that before.

NightCougar_37 wrote:

NAG wrote:

Take a game about boobs and turn it into a movie. Great idea! Movies about boobies! They've never done that before.

Yeah i'm surprised Disney didn't pick up the rights to it

Bat you wasted 54MB of my HD space and 1:57 secs of my life and I want them back!!

I can't believe how bad those actors looked in DoA. Made me wish I was watching the Street Fighter Movie. Btw did anyone see who was Kasumi?

Devon Aoki ... Kasumi

IMDB is your friend. (And you'd rather suffer thru Van Dammage and watch Raul Julia make money for a new patio than watch Aoki & Jaime Pressly? I mean, OK, Kylie Minogue, but still... and this only took two minutes, not 102. )

I could barely tell who was playing what part.

Then you need to watch the 1080p version.

Metacell wrote:

Why isn't Peter Jackson making the bloomin' Hobbit movie?  It's practically written in screenplay format with all the effects shots story-boarded out already!

Last I heard Jackson had a little disagreement with New Line over his earnings from LoTR. They don't want him, parent Co. WB begs to differ. Impasse.

Second, if they want a alien blockbuster set on an orbital strip, why not do something with an actual story like Ringworld?

Old news? Halo 3 is coming $oon to make H2's sales look weak. You got some marketing tie-ins from Niven?

Didn't think so. The only Louis Wu that counts is at HBO.

I hope they follow the first game's Max Payne model.

especially the face.

heh

heh

elpato84 wrote:

This can either be seen as a WTF? or a 'Bout Damn Time.
Max Payne finally got a movie going for it. Apparently, it's an indie flick, and I think this is good for the movie. Since they probably won't be going after too many dollars, we might see a quality picture.
link to site
teaser trailer on youtube

Here's the thing, though. The only original bit for Max Payne was the game mechanics. First one to use the bullet-time, IIRC.

The story was absolute smurf. Maybe on purpose, but still.

elpato84 wrote:

Phydeaux wrote:

elpato84 wrote:

This can either be seen as a WTF? or a 'Bout Damn Time.
Max Payne finally got a movie going for it. Apparently, it's an indie flick, and I think this is good for the movie. Since they probably won't be going after too many dollars, we might see a quality picture.
link to site
teaser trailer on youtube

Here's the thing, though. The only original bit for Max Payne was the game mechanics. First one to use the bullet-time, IIRC.

The story was absolute smurf. Maybe on purpose, but still.

I guess I'm the only one who liked it.

Hardly. It was pulp fiction... I remember a pretty good movie with that title, too. I guess if you hate all comic books and graphic novels you'd hate Max.

edit: the blog said the director was initially in cosmetics. This better not degrade into a torture porno.

It'd be a pretty misleading poster, then. Anyhoo, more movie news.

» Far Cry Movie Now Filming

Biz.Gamedaily is reporting that the movie version of Crytek's first person shooter title Far Cry is currently filming in Vancouver. As previously reported prolific video game movie director Uwe Boll (House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne) is at the helm of the Far Cry movie with German actor Til Schweiger cast in the main role of Jack Carver. Emanuelle Vaugier, Udo Kier, Ralf Moller and Michael Pare are among the other known actors in the film. The Far Cry movie is expected to be released sometime in 2008. Recently Freestyle Productions announced plans to release two of Boll's already completed video game movies, Postal (September 2007) and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (January 2008). A direct-to-DVD sequel to Bloodrayne is scheduled for release this October.

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=16074

You can never get too much Uwe, and when I say never I mean always... I think there are quite a few more such in the works, but can't remember titles offhand.

* Writer & Director, Fergle Gibson, is a trained & qualified special effects makeup artist.

source
Special effects makeup more or less = people getting beat up

Yep, more on the way:

» Alone In The Dark II Movie Begins Filming In August

Horror film web site Bloody-Disgusting.com is reporting that Alone in the Dark II, the sequel to director Uwe Boll's 2005 released video game based movie, will begin shooting in August for a direct-to-DVD release. Cast members in the movie include Lance Hendriksen, Ralf Moeller and Rick Yune. Both movies are based loosely on the long running survival horror game series. Developer Eden Studios and publisher Atari have been working on a new game in the series for some time but there hasn't been a development update on the new game for some time.

Yet more Uwe! Make it stop, make it stop...

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=16170

» Hitman Movie Trailer Released

The Joblo.com web site has the first release (in Flash format unfortunately) of the trailer to the upcoming movie adaptation of the lo[ng-running?] Interactive-Eidos Hitman game series. The movie will be released on Oct. 12; the trailer will also be put in front of the prints to Live Free or Die Hard when it is released to theaters on Wednesday.

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart … chid=16177

"Transformers: The Sequel."

It could happen.

Talking with Entertainment Weekly recently, director Michael Bay was briefly questioned about sequel possibilities and what he's doing next. Here's an excerpt:

How are you sitting with the idea of directing another Transformers movie?

Let's see how this one does. I've got a lot of ideas for the next one. There's a lot of really cool, big robot stuff that I had in my head that we didn't do. [..]

I doubt that.