Variety has just stated that EA’s space pants-crapping simulator is coming to a multiplex near you sometime in the near future. Director DJ Caruso, known primarily for some halfway decent Hitchcock rip-offs (Eagle Eye and Disturbia) starring Shia The Beef is the man in the big seat.
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The big news around the virtual water cooler today is the announcement that Sam Raimi, he of Spider-Man, Evil Dead and, of course, Cleopatra 2525, is set to direct the live-action, big-screen treatment of World of Warcraft.
As someone who has managed to avoid the narcotic e,brace of the game, I’ll leave it to better authorities (i.e., Adam) to speculate if there’s any cinematic gold here worth mining.
Anyone excited about this or will Raimi’s vision be impossible to live up to the elf-princess-saving splendor that exists among your comrades?
By now you’ve likely seen these teaser posters for the 2010 release of Jerry Bruckheimer’s big-screen adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
I think they look pretty good actually, and Jake Gyllenhaal is about as Persia-ry as I would expect. Is it enough to get your blood up for the film?
I still have big doubts.
While Sands of Time was one of my favorite games of the last generation, I am flummoxed how it will make the transition to movie-land. Will the audience glom on to the charm (if it remains intact in the transition) that made the game so memorable, without defaulting to a “Wow, that’s a rip-off of Aladdin!” mindset?
And is the platforming going remain? Who here’s up to see Jake Gyllenhall staddle a pillar?
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is by far my favorite PS3 game and in my top five for best of the next-gen–at least until the sure-to-be-bodacious Among Thieves lands later in the year.
Apparently it’s resonated with studio suits, too, as the Hollywood Reporter says:
Columbia has found “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.”
The studio is developing the action-adventure video game for a feature film, setting Kyle Ward to pen the adaptation that would be produced by Avi Arad, Charles Roven, Ari Arad and Alex Gartner.
The story follows a descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake, a treasure hunter named Nate Drake who believes he has learned the whereabouts of El Dorado, the fabled South American golden city, from a cursed golden statue. The search becomes competitive when a rival hunter joins the fray, then is racheted up several notches when creatures — actually mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis — begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure’s true secrets.
While the game is probably the closest I ever got to actually playing an interactive summer movie, I wonder how this would do in front of audiences. Beloved by the gaming crowd for sure, the title never achieved icon status so the word-of-mouth isn’t there.
And who would play Nathan Drake? His surprisingly-not-annoying smart-assness primarily kept the game rolling along so smoothly. A casting misstep will spell doom.
I think the choice is obvious, though.
