Movies nobody asked for.
Sony is working on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 movies
Submitted 4 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
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jadedwench@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 months ago
HZD actually has a fantastic story and a great setting. With some recent successful game movies, I can see this one actually being good. But does Sony have much of a track record here? Uncharted was bad.
Cris16228@lemmy.today 4 months ago
This! Loved both games and can’t wait for a 3rd one and I’m okay with a movie if it’s well made but Sony… Ugh
N00b22@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Gran Turismo was mid as wel
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Starship Troopers exists so any video game movie adaptation will be compared to it. Unless Paul Verhoven is directing, it is a big uphill battle to win any comparisons.
And it’s Sony, so, good luck? They can’t seem to understand what makes a movie interesting to want to watch. They can’t cut a good trailer but their actual ability to produce and execute movie production is just bad. They can’t make a comic book movie that isn’t produced by others.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I wonder if they’ll go with acclaimed producer/director/asshat Uwe Boll?
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sony can’t make a good movie to save it’s life. I’m amazed they can make good games still. Every other division is hot garbage.
illi@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Wasn’t there a Horizon show that was cancelled recently?
simple@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Yeah, that confused me as well. It seems like they’re making a movie instead.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Helldivers is Starship Troopers (the movie version). So the movie is going to be more Starship Troopers?
Man, Sony is astroturfing the fuck out of Horizon. Look at that Lego game no one bought and that pointless remake of the first game.
So two pointless movies. Thanks, Sony.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Starship troopers, the game (the movie).
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A Horizon movie could work, so long as it’s not going to adapt one of the game’s stories, and works instead as an expansion of the world rather than a retread.
Helldivers… I’m not seeing it. I’m not seeing it at all. It’ll simply be off-brand Starship Troopers. Besides, what story is there to tell? The game’s direction is partially, in some small part, driven by the way players react to alerts events. You’re not going to capture that in a movie.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I like the story, it’s a neat concept. But a Sony movie about it is probably the last thing I’m interested in.
Unless it stars Dakota Johnson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Jared Leto.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 months ago
TIL who Aaron Taylor-Johnson is and that he’s continuing the tradition of having two Marvel characters
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 months ago
He’s a 50-50 actor. When he’s good, like in Kickass and Bullettrain, he’s real good. But when he’s bad he’s absolutely horrible, like Godzilla and every superhero movie he’s been in.
TheFonz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Jared Leto? Really? The sexaholic cult leader?
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I beleive it was a complaint about those 3 actors. “it’s almost the least interesting thing, scoring higher than only these 3 features”
Mobiledecay@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The games already are movies. Nothing but cut scenes.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well, not Helldivers.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 4 months ago
I think both of these could be great movies, but could also be done extremely poorly (especially helldivers). I hope they get people who like and understand the IPs for these ones.
Maalus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
… All movies could be great or could be done very poorly.
B312@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not really
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 months ago
Zzzzzz
Cris16228@lemmy.today 4 months ago
I bet you’ll need a Sony account to watch it in any cinema around the world.
Streaming service? Link your Sony account and you can watch them! Don’t worry, you’ll get a cool skin doing jt