@LanciePants: I'm take it or leave it on the giant spider, but I've got to hear confirmation of a polar bear fight or these dollars are staying in my pocket.

wild homes isn't anything!

@BoringJob:

Is it just me, or was the whole "Evening with Kevin Smith" films funnier than his movies? Man there was some funny stuff in them, specially his part about Tim Burton.

Otacon85

As long as a big daddy fights a giant spider in the 3rd act, I'm good.

LanciePants

@Chew13acca: An entire movie in first person? Surely you jest. I'm going to excuse myself now, before I actually let your idea dwell on me, at which point i will start ranting, swearing, and eventually throwing my keyboard around in an attempt to express my overwhelming sense of "wtfareyoucrazy?"-ness

Seriously though, are you crazy?

sarcasmOD

To paraphrase Kevin Smith: "I'm a big fan, so i think Affleck should be in everything. Jaws 16? Affleck! Affleck playes the fucking shark!"

On a slightly more serious note, Nate Fillion is a great actor so i wouldn't mind seeing him in more quality productions.

Firefly was so poorly managed by Fox it should be a crime.

BoringJob

@Thorax: Yeah, but if Nathan Fillion played Nathan Drake it would remove all the suspense about us discovering just what the hammer is.

Hint: it's his penis.

wild homes isn't anything!

If anyone is going to play Nathan Drake, it's Nathan Fillion. Seriously, the two look like they were seperated at birth...if one wasn't digital.

If they land a good director who can work with CGI and such competently, then color me interested. If Tim Burton could get past his ego and uber gothic art direction, I'd love to see what he could do with the Rapture setting.

Thorax

@PapaBear434: Btw Levine was quoted saying that, not Luke.

Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.

@Phazonmasher:

Sorry. I'm tired and my sarcasm meter is broken.

PapaBear434

@PapaBear434: I think that he knew that and was referring to it as Fool's Gold was awful. It was a statement saying that our movie isn't going to be awful like that one.

Phazonmasher

@Scottendo:

Agreed. I actually thought Doom was going ok for a video game movie, untill that whole FPS section of the movie, as well as that end fight wih "Uber Rock".

Otacon85

I hope it doesn't follow the plotline of the game too strictly ... I think the prequel/fall of Rapture and someone's escape would be a more interesting movie.

Strangelove

Luke, if you ever mention the possibility of Matthew McConaughey as Nathan Drake again, I may have to cut your head off for the good of humanity. :[

Archaotic

@Scottendo: Well if you truly want to stay faithful, don't make a game into a movie.

BillyTheRatKing

@Chew13acca: And we all know how THAT worked out for Doom..

Scottendo

Um, Luke? I think they already made that movie.

[www.imdb.com]

Fool's Gold.

PapaBear434

Lol, if that's what the Little Sisters looked like I would have harvested them all.

BillyTheRatKing

It's not like you really need a solid actor for the lead role. If you want to stay faithful make it first person.

Chew13acca

@Otacon85: I, too, found both the Evening With... videos to be funnier than Kevin Smith's movies. That's not a knock against his movies, though-- most of them are very funny, although I didn't enjoy ...Strike Back or Jersey Girl at all-- I just found the Evenings to be hilarious. He's surprisingly personable and a great extemporaneous storyteller. It's not quite as good as seeing Henry Rollins live-- because that dude is just incredibly charismatic and smart-- but I enjoyed Kevin Smith a lot.

wild homes isn't anything!

@wild homes isn't anything!:

You owe me a new keyboard. Good show sir.

OT: If the movie follows the plot to a T, it'll be disappointing, because the second half of the story was lame. The middle, man, they could of ended it there and it would of been great, but noooo, lets drag it out for a few more hours and have the plot get nonsensical.

nesdude

Dang, that would have made a good one......

Haven't played the game. (I know "WTF? IT'S THE GOTY!!!!") Just doesn't appeal to me.

AcidCrownie

I think I'd rather see Hollywood dumb it down like that and strip it of all its philosophical content. The last thing I want is a well-made movie bashing the idea of human liberty by suggesting that if the government stopped watching over you for a few minutes everybody would be hooked on drugs and chopping each other up into pieces. Of course, I think they're pretty positive about plastic surgery out there in LA, so perhaps they'll sympathize with that one guy.

rexdart007

@Otacon85: No way. His movies are fucking hysterical. But so are the "evening with"s. Just 2 different types of humor.

One is considered more low brow even though his dialog is actually quite witty. He just mixes in rubber poop monsters and dick jokes in his movies.

The evening withs showcase his storytelling prowess. And have less low brow humor. He genuinely tries to answer the questions honestly while still mixing in a lot of humor.

BoringJob

Matthew McConaughey would be the fucking bomb as a big daddy!

MetalGearMax

Creepy picture.

@Thorax: And anything with Nathan Fillion, I'll watch it.

Even White Noise 2. God. That was a bad movie.

sir_carrot

Of course it won't be Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. Everyone knows he's into Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom.

Orlando Bloom as Jack
Keira Knightley as Professor Langford
Geoffrey Rush as Andrew Ryan (House on Haunted Hill, anyone?)
Johnny Depp as Frank Fontaine
Jonathan Pryce as Dr. Steinman
Chow Yun-Fat as Dr. Suchong

See? The whole movie is cast already!

boopadoo

This will be the first game movie that will be better than the game since Bioshock barely had a story haha.

Elwood2112

I loved BioShock, but what made it great in my opinion was that it was a GAME, a game that made a point about choice and the standard objective structure in other GAMES. A MOVIE is not going to do that. This is probably going to suck.

d3ath_fly

I could watch a BioShock movie with Kate Hudson. I never found her to be all that attractive until I saw You, Me and Dupree. Bad movie, great butt.

Likwit

I love making movies, friends say I'm a genius. They should hire me. I could to the job

themm

@Archaotic: I never said he was my first choice!

Luke Plunkett

@wild homes isn't anything!: That made me laugh out loud, and now everyone at home thinks I'm crazy.

Thorax

Nathan Drake, played by Jeffrey Donovan. His older buddy guy played by Bruce Campbell.

Bam. That's it. That's a movie right there. Hell, toss Tricia Helfair in there as the formerly-plain-brunette-but-now-attractive-blonde and it's a Burn Notice on an island spectacular.

I'd watch that, easy.

DarknessMyOldFriend

I doubt game movies are ever really going to take off. There seems to be a common perception that game movies are just on the other side of some barrier, and as soon as we break down that barrier there's going to be a deluge of great (or at least good) game movies. The unfortunate truth is that the barrier is going to have to be broken down on a per-project basis, not once-and-for-all.

Look at movie games, for example. There are a few examples of great ones in the past, but by and large they're still garbage. We crossed that bridge only to find out that the princess is in another castle, so to speak.

Part of the problem is the timing of tie-ins. Rather than giving the original media time to cultivate in the minds of inspired creators, most game and movie crossovers come in the form of timely tie-ins. Look at comic book movies. Are the great comic book movies coming out a couple years after their respective comics? No, they're coming out decades later. The great game stories and characters haven't really been around all that long yet.

So while I hold out hope that someday, eventually, we truly will see an inspired game adaptation, even that will not be some kind of key that unlocks the door to a vault of quality game adaptations. Just like adapting movies into games, every successful adaptation will be its own struggle.

Toasticus

@Strangelove:

I agree. Don't make it strictly based on the plotline of the game with the same character, but instead a pre to post-crisis movie about people who lived in Rapture. That could be pretty cool.

But, considering the history of video game to movie, and how that always turns out, I'll set my expectation dial to "it's gonna suck".

Tesahli

@Elwood2112: Really? Because I thought it was a cut above the rest.

Unless you're referring to what Levine said about it being 'go here, do this, get that, kill them' and building the world around the basic actions so as not to lose the gamer in murky nonsense.

But that's craft talk. The finished package was quality story.

sir_carrot

@Polite Society: It was of course impossible to take it seriously as a movie. But as a sunday night movie, with a bottle of scotch and a good sense of humour, totally awesome.

Polite Society

@Otacon85: Really? i thought the Doom movie was quite great for what it was, FPS section included. One of the most awesome computer game homages ever.

Polite Society

@Toasticus: And in ten years, that movie will be Bad Dudes. Starring Ethan Hawk. Directed by M. Knight Shyamalon.

The twist: The ninjas were ivisible.

Yeah, I'm answering your well thought out comment with a joke. I am a whore.

Thorax

@DarknessMyOldFriend:

My God... I would pay twice to see that in a motion picture.

PapaBear434

@Chew13acca: No... No... First person is a terrible way to tell a story... Seriously, Bioshock is a serious philisophical story, it should be treated seriously, and having more than 2 seconds worth of consecutive first person shots means it won't get taken seriously...

bobtheduck

Oh yeah, the entire movie in first person, that would be amazing and in no way an abysmal gimmick.

marmidukestank

@bobtheduck, @marmidukestank: Well, to be fair, it wouldn't be entirely dissimilar from, say, Cloverfield, Blair Witch, or Rec--all three of which were highly entertaining movies which used their shared cinematic tropes very well. Filming an entire movie in a first-person perspective would be an audacious and potentially interesting move, as long as a talented director was working behind the scenes.

That said, I don't think that Bioshock--or any video game property, for that matter--would be ideal to showcase what could be an interesting cinematographic technique. It seems that the only way to make a decent game-based movie is to disregard the source material, only using it for inspiration--but at that point, the studio might as well create an entirely new IP, one that isn't beholden to the expectations of rabid fanboys and the close-minded assumptions of most film critics.

JustThisGuy

Yeah, they are saving Kate Hudson to be the first person to fall victim to a head crab in the Half Life movie.

Heath Ledger will play gordon freem.... crap. Forgot about that whole "dead" thing...

*sigh*

K-Squad! (Badass Edition)

@wild homes isn't anything!:

A little tangling with some unruly polar bears is icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned. We both know what goes into a good movie. Why? Because we're from the streets, that's why.

LanciePants

I live in Lewes... no-one ever knows where that is...

Nick

sounds cool. I am still waiting for release on the PS3 so I can play it.

Awoken

Not cool man@K-Squad! (Badass Edition):

So they are saying it'll stay true to the game does that mean I'm going to know the twist about Ryan before it comes?

Paradyme

I hope they have as much action, suspense and atmosphere as the bit at the end of Aliens when Ripley goes back alone to rescue Newt.

Hopefully there won't be some demented sidekick, and if there is, please, oh please, let him be killed by a Big Daddy. Preferably with the drill. In the goolies.

Pudgey

@sarcasmOD: movie completely in first person, and not like Blair or Cloverfield, or Last Broadcast with a handheld camera, but a regular first person perspective.... Lady in the Lake(1947)...

I could imagine that actually working for Bioshock the film, and the tech these days would make it flow better. A main snag with making a movie out of a game that already has a decent story, is that your main audience has played the game, and knows the story, so you feel you need to give them something other than just the same story in film... The problem is games just aren't as mature as films yet as a dramatic medium, and something like bioshock, which should come out somewhat like City of Lost children in regards to acting and style and subtlety, will probably not.
The thing that disappointed me most about the Silent Hill movie was that they could have made it artier and more mature as a film, instead it came off as a video game movie(decent though), but considering it had the potential to be as gripping as Jacob's Ladder, it was sad.

Ehardergardens

Well, as long as it has a Doom-style first person sequence, it'll be BITCHIN'. :-P

SirCletus

Truthfully as much as I loved the game I'm hoping they take some creative liberties with the film. I mean, hand that shoots bees, the "shocking" plot twist, the final boss were all... kind of silly. And sure in a video game context its fine, but if you're trying to draw in a movie going crowd unfamiliar with the source as well, yeah.. yeah....

MPSai

Terry Tate should play as a Big Daddy :P

vacta

That's quite funny. When I saw the trailer for "Fool's Gold" I was thinking it was an obvious "Uncharted" rip-off.

StickyGoodies

if you truly want to stay faithful, you don't leave the church

PsyComa

@BillyTheRatKing: Agreed!

They have some great material to work with and I really do believe it could be an entertaining movie!

I don't know about you guys, but I kinda liked the first person parts of DOOM the movie.

robingoblin