I really wish studios would just start hiring writters and making original content. Im so bored of everything being ripped from other media.
‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24
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Holyginz@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
i agree i immediately do not care about franchise products these days
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Video game movies have a chance of being good, they are almost always trash with a slim chance of being good. For a game with a lot of lore and no plot, the chance of being good is close to zero.
Maybe a miracle will happen.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I think about this a lot
I love the idea of media expanding on the lore, but needing to insert a plot could ruin it
My only “solution” is a TV series instead of a movie and every episode should be a separate story
trungulox@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
I’m cautiously optimistic. The lack of a plot in the game leaves a lot of creative room for the film and the deep lore gives them a lot to work with. Also it’s Alex garland and a24 so like. I’m in.
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
The lack of a plot in the game leaves a lot of creative room for the film and the deep lore gives them a lot to work with.
But also adds more chance of the movie to fuck up the lore for the sake of the movie’s plot.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 22 hours ago
There is a plot?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This noob missed the plot.
Git gud.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 hour ago
Never played. I always thought it had horrible story telling intentionally. From soft games feel like reading a redacted report.
PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] 15 hours ago
Doing Edge of Tomorrow style Progression where one actor plays different classes and steadily progresses could be an option. Explore the world from a changing perspective.
Noerknhar@feddit.org 23 hours ago
I’m sure they’ll fuck it up.
Name one good videogame movie. One.
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
WoW, Prince of Persia
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It’s not a movie, but the Fallout series had a great first season, and I’m looking forward to the second.
trungulox@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
The last of us was great too. Not a movie still. But .
simple@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
The original Mortal Kombat movie. The newest Sonic movie was also pretty good imo.
But yes, this can probably go very wrong.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
First, it’s A24 and they put out amazing movies .
Second, Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros Movie, and I’m not sure if it would count, but Wreck It Ralph are all good video game movies.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Super Mario Bros. (1993) was a cult classic.
The 2023 movie is forgettable garbage.
The Sonic movies are fun though. Knuckles TV as well.
samus12345@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
Wreck It Ralph doesn’t count because it wasn’t based on an actual video game, but on video games in general. But it was indeed great.
ogeist@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I wonder it is going to be THE Elden Ring story or An Elden Ring story, a small contained story in the Elden Ring world could fly really well, bonus points if Patches kicks the protagonist off a cliff.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
my preference would be a film about the shattering, giving us some (but not too much) more insight into just what fucked the world up so godsdamned much.
but that would need to be extremely faithful to the lore and character designs and i just don’t see hollywood showing up for that.
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 21 hours ago
Does Last of Us count? Sonic movies and Mario were pretty decent too.
aliceblossom@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Normally I’d agree, but it being A24 makes me very hopeful.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Alex Garland has made some pretty good movies, so there’s a chance. I thought his instincts with annihilation were pretty much spot on. But yeah, movies based on games do not have a great track record.
dellish@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Street Fighter. It’s fantastically bad.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 19 hours ago
Silent Hill
samus12345@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
That one got a lot of hate, but I actually liked it.
Goronmon@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Its funny in this case because not “fucking it up” effectively means making a movie that’s barely related to the game outside of the basic setting.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Hope they make something trippy like The Green Knight
Eldest_Malk@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
“I’ll soon birth thee anew.” — Alex Garland
darthelmet@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
What… uh… I can’t imagine this movie being weird enough to feel like a movie based on a FROMSOFT game while still being accessible to the wide audience needed for a big budget fantasy movie to make money.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
After seeing The Green Knight I trust A24 to get this right.
MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
“A24” is the only thing here that gives me a tiny bit of hope.
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Can you make q movie out of pure lore? Maybe a prequel, like The Fall of Hoarah Loux or Ranni’s Rebellion? Will the audience be required to parry things?
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Sorry, best we can do is having the audience dodge roll every scene.
PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] 15 hours ago
Didnt the John Wick movies usee the role effect? Using this one to introduce the dodge role would be funny.
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
I kind of hate Elden Ring. I’ve played plenty of these games, but I’ve died easily like 2 or 3 times more here. And, more often than ever, I don’t know what to do next, which is easily compensated with another couple of deaths. Nah, I will never watch this.
wabafee@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Personally I’m keeping my expectations low on this one. Game adaption to movie seem to always go to shit. Though personally would love a movie about the Bloodborne universe. I imagine a horror mystery movie about it.