@Amazon_Chris: Then call me stupid, because hell yes I'm up for a good B sci-fi movie and if it is video game oriented, all the better.

AndrewG009

@Thorax: THIS.

I love Lost Planet though. Thought the single player was strong, and I fell in love with the multi. Problem was, the story was such an amalgamation of Japanesey drek. The concept is strong. Mysterious frozen planet, colonists left behind, an evil corporation, and a lethal species of creature which holds valuable fuel. There's plenty of strong elements to base a story off of, but DAMN did they botch 'em up. Frankly, if they dropped that silly "omg wat is teh meaning of my arm"? stuff, you could've had a story similar to Frank Herbert's Dune series. Or maybe I'm being a little too ambitious..

BlackdogGT

@Spartan1308™:

I think he means that Lost Planet wont take place in a raging volcano vs. underground crab people, for example.

Komrade_Kayce

Well at least the film will be well written.

Thorax

If Solid Snake wrote it then legally I have to watch it.

Pezdispenser

@Spartan1308™: Just to be clear, the game was quite fun. The story had very little to do with said fun though.

Spartan1308™

Just make Kelly Brook star as Luka and I'll be the first one to watch this film.

Ricksterlau

Seconded: Bug shooting or not worth seeing. Thing is, Hollywood is well aware of the positive effects that bug shooting has on filmgoers.

Crosswayboy

"because the man cares deeply about the source material"

What source material? This game was fairly generic so I hope they expand quite a bit on the source material.

Spartan1308™

Why would anyone want a Lost Planet movie? The game was alright, but anyone thinking it would make a good movie is stupid.

Amazon_Chris

Too much David Hayter for one week. He's gotten real talkative in between writing scripts and voice acting. Maybe he should lend those vocals on Doki Doki 9000 Superstar Omegadeath Anime Extravaganza or Metal Gear Solid 3.51 or something.

Rembrandt

That game had the worst VO's ever...

udiie

This game as a movie? I don't know. Kind of dubious. Assuming they plan to honor the game at all, that's going to be a lot of movie where you can't actually see any of the characters' faces, because they'll be bundled up like Eskimos. Which, in turn, would presumably make for little dialogue, seeing as the world's a giant snowstorm and the characters will be all bundled up. Until they get inside, where this movie will look just like Resident Evil or someting, with bland interior environments and a lot of Jesus, the Akrid are bugs dialogue. Hm. Just don't see this one really being very appealing.

wild homes gets retconned!

Also, the main character must look Korean. Perhaps Daniel Dae Kim with some makeup.

Does Not Equal

Woo Starship troopers on Ice!

Tom Clancy's Samuraidino

I... I didn't know Lost Planet had fans.

I'm not being sarcastic right now, until today I've never heard a single 'YEAH! It's cool!' when the game is mentioned, usually just the odd cringe or people pretending they never heard of it.

Might have something to do with snow pirates...

Jayl3w

I couldn't get through the first two levels of this game.

For some reason, even though everyone yammered about the incredible visuals, it felt like I was playing a $20 budget title. I can't explain it.

I heard the storyline isn't that great, also... should be interesting to see how this turns out.

sir_carrot

@wild homes gets retconned!: I don't know, dude. The Thing pulled it off pretty well. The desolation of a hostile outdoor environment with limited visibility, paired with a naturally claustrophobic indoor enviroment, has a lot of dramatic and narrative potential. Moreover, there's a lot of gold to be mined from the notion that you can neither see the principals' faces nor hear their dialogue.

In an ideal world, Lost Planet would be like Besson's Le Dernier Combat on steroids; a conflict is drawn out visually between the anonymity of the cast members and their inhabitable surroundings, relying almost solely on implication and visual cues to carry the narrative. I don't think enough directors/cinematographers really take advantage of how frightening a white, snow-blasted environment can be. The potential for sound production alone is making me giddy.

There's a good, solid thematic framework for a thought-provoking sci-fi film in here. I don't think Lost Planet will be it, but there's a lot of interesting things to play around with in its core concept.

JustThisGuy

@Amazon_Chris: Tone down the cynicism. It's not like the game has zero potential to be made into a decent film. I've seen some science-fiction films with even less potential get greenlit and somehow become hits (I, Robot and Terminator 3 anyone?).

@Topic: Yeah, I heard about him penning the script awhile ago. Hayter's track record is very short, but all the films he's associated with have become hits, though it can be argued that this is due to them being a part of a franchise that already had a strong fanbase beforehand. Lost Planet on the other hand? Not really. I enjoyed the game and do feel it could make for an alright film, but I doubt thats a sentiment shared by many.

If this is made, I'm going to try to give it the benefit of the doubt. A guy who has wrote for two films I like and was given a compliment by Alan Moore for his screenplay on one of Moore's work being adapted into film can't be that bad of a writer.

KeroseneClimax

@Snake726: If this movie was being filmed by Tarkovsky or someone else who really understand the value of relative silence, I think that could be compelling. But given the type of talent this project will attract, I'm guessing what you describe-- while awesome in concept-- would get horribly boring after about twenty minutes, if that. We expect our movies to embrace certain things-- common artifacts of human experience and society-- because it's easier to accept an alternate reality when we have 'handrails', if you will, identifiable things that we instinctively ground ourselves in. And unfortunately, dialogue and relatively common figures are just that. Your idea is great, but it wouldn't ever be approved as something Konami's backers would throw a tremendous amount of money behind.

wild homes gets retconned!

@JustThisGuy: You're right. There is a boatload of potential in the idea, but I think that what we're really discussing is essentially taking the name of the game, and throwing out all the Akrid, all the dumb story, all the blank interiors, and so on. And that's great. That could really work-- there's a lot of stuff you could do there, with relative lack of personality of the characters while covered up, the having to emote purely with the eyes and physical presence. The opportunities to wow with the cinematography. I really support that idea-- see my post yesterday about the Metal Gear Solid Movie. But if you're taking this property, with its rather lumpy reality, to actually turn this into a film? I'm less behind that.

wild homes gets retconned!

@wild homes gets retconned!: Good, then it will be an original concept.

I would pay to see a Lost Planet movie where we're introduced to the characters, and from then on there is little dialogue.

They encounter snow pirates and blow the shit out of bugs to the tune of a windswept tundra and sporadic gunfire.

Videogames tell their story through actions, so why shouldn't a videogame movie take the same approach.

I've had about enough of the 'well rounded' Hollywood movie format.

Snake726

@Does Not Equal: You know who would look a lot like the guy from Lost Planet? The guy from Lost Planet.
Crazy thing is, Lee Byung-Hun happens to be an actor, and a fine one, too! It's a shame he probably doesn't speak English well enough to play the role.

Antiterra

I think it'll be good, as long as it doesn't try to be something it isn't.

Blazingluke

@Antiterra: That would be why I didn't nominate LBH for the role. I also doubt he sounds like Josh Keaton. I knew who he was, though.

Does Not Equal

@wild homes gets retconned!: Well,, there's always hope; after all, Anderson basically stripped RE of everything that made it RE, only tangentially connecting the films to the game series. They could do the same with this title, except--you know--do it well. An impossibly improbable idea, I know, but still possible. One can always dream, I suppose.

I'm just really enthralled with the idea of how this film might look visually, if the producers had the balls to go full-out arthouse with the property. The last great sci-fi film was, what--Takovsky's Solaris? I mean, flicks like Aliens and Starship Troopers were a lot of fun, but I'm a bit starved for a deep, thought-provoking science fiction film.

JustThisGuy

@Rembrandt:
He's probably ticked that Konami and Sony rejected his MGS movie script for not being suitable enough. So he's doing all that he can to prove to them otherwise. Maybe not ALL, but you get the point.

beem

@Komrade_Kayce:
This just in... you've written the script for Mike Bay's follow-up to Transformers 2.

He wants to know where to send the money.

No, in all seriousness...

I'm probably going to be in the minority here, but I guess I was the only person who wasn't completely in love with the X-Men movies... undoubtedly, the first two were better (in my opinion) than the third, but with one of them including the line "What happens to a toad that gets struck by lightening... the same thing as everything else"... I can't really go ga-ga for his writing skills.

Also, I get what he was saying about the ending of MGS4 (no spoilers here if you haven't finished it) but I also REALLY liked the game's ending even if it did feel like the first time I watched Return of the King (end already, dammit!) and the final voiceover being totally unnecessary.

I may change my mind after seeing the Watchmen, but for right now, the X-Men movies he wrote aren't even in my top 100 movies (and I don't own them), and let's not forget he also wrote The Scorpion King.

So... yeah, Starship Troopers on Ice might be exactly what he's qualified to write.

Evil J

i hate this game with all my heart.

Monster Chalk

Wow... He knocks his own game and praises Lost Planet... My opinion of him just dropped... I mean, his taste in games, anyhow.

bobtheduck

@KeroseneClimax: Man, just look at the ration of good movies based off of games to bad movies based off games.

Amazon_Chris

This is gonna be worse than the Bloodrayne movie.

gundry_pwnd

@Amazon_Chris: And? I don't determine an upcoming films quality based on past efforts with different franchises, by different people. You get a trash staff doing an adaptation, you'll always get a trash film. Lost Planet has enough elements that can be embellished and polished into, if not a great, but viewable sci-fi film. You just have to get the right people. I doubt Spider-Man would be such a hit if Uwe Boll was behind the wheel.

KeroseneClimax

@wild homes is being recast!:

If Hollywood (and I suppose Hayter's script) learns its lessons from well-made "stuck-in-the-snow" reels like The Thing, a few episodes of X-Files, etc, there's a lot of potential to mine some sweet action-survival "oh my god, the bugs!" type of movie. My only worry is that they would get rid of the VTs altogether much like Ghost in the Shell got rid of Fuchikomas... WHY DID THEY GET RID OF THE FUCHIKOMAS?!?!

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