(01-13-2009, 01:33 AM)Tommy Gun Wrote: Just having a bit of a think. For the game to be successfully merged into a movie, prepare for vital parts of the game to left out, new characters to appear, and the whole layout of the mine/ facility changed.
Let's face it, to my knowledge/ little research, there has not been a single movie with only one character we see. (if we exclude silents). To get the movie running, and have the enmies introduced in movie style, you would need a second character, e.g, a brother. To introduce dog, have brother starts getting attacked by dog, on ground, yelling, phillip runs out of camera for a few seconds, enters back into camera view then hits the dog with a pick axe, thus, the enemies are introduced, and a weapon is sucessfully implemented, not all that different from "Shaun of the Dead."
Problem is, that Script writers are normally afraid to greatly alter the script, and they want to stick with the material in the game, and so, they fail, because games and movies are two completely different types of media.
for a good game=movie, Be prepared to have a completely different layout of the plot to what the game is, and be prepared for scenes to be left out.
Sorry for the thread necromancy.

(01-13-2009, 04:58 PM)Kedjane Wrote:

(01-13-2009, 01:33 AM)Tommy Gun Wrote: Just having a bit of a think. For the game to be successfully merged into a movie, prepare for vital parts of the game to left out, new characters to appear, and the whole layout of the mine/ facility changed.
Let's face it, to my knowledge/ little research, there has not been a single movie with only one character we see. (if we exclude silents). To get the movie running, and have the enmies introduced in movie style, you would need a second character, e.g, a brother. To introduce dog, have brother starts getting attacked by dog, on ground, yelling, phillip runs out of camera for a few seconds, enters back into camera view then hits the dog with a pick axe, thus, the enemies are introduced, and a weapon is sucessfully implemented, not all that different from "Shaun of the Dead."
Problem is, that Script writers are normally afraid to greatly alter the script, and they want to stick with the material in the game, and so, they fail, because games and movies are two completely different types of media.
for a good game=movie, Be prepared to have a completely different layout of the plot to what the game is, and be prepared for scenes to be left out.
Sorry for the thread necromancy.

If they changed the scripts it would piss off the fans and they would fail anyways.

(11-30-2008, 09:25 PM)Petike Wrote:

Umbra Wrote:Well, I think there is no reason to make a film based on Penumbra. Penumbra is more than video game - it's more like a book with good story and philosophic end, last letter of Philip is a real revelation,,,

I fully agree on that, Umbra. To be honest, Penumbra would not be good source material for a movie. And if someone nonetheless came up with an ASB idea of making one, it would have to be more of a indie horror to be interesting at all...

Besides, movies based on games and games based on movies usualy... SUCK... I think the main reason for that, is the fact that one medium tries to compete with the other in presentation or storytelling... and fails...

(04-09-2009, 05:22 PM)Tombo Wrote: Liam Neeson as Philip definately