Yet another video game based movie

[st0neface]

Metroid (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/07/news_6093071.html) is now the latest victim.

[Derfel]

But... John Woo. At least that's better news than Uwe Boll optioning every damn video game in existence.

[danh920]

looking forward to it myself, john woo has done some good stuff, the trend of poor video game based movies should end soon

[Doylerulez]

I wonder if Samus will shoot sideways, John Woo never does that in his films.

[danh920]

I'm thinking uma thurman would make a great samus!!!

[sm04as]

That would be interesting to see...

[SneakyPenguin]

I wonder if Samus will shoot sideways, John Woo never does that in his films.

what IM wondering is if samus will have guns on both arms, cause we all know woo loves dual gun action. it might not suck, paycheck was pretty good, and metroid already had a shitload of explosions, so he should be satsfied with that. now, to paraphrase hard boiled:

Give a girl a gun arm, she thinks shes a super-powered bounty hunter raised by aliens. give her two she thinks shes god.

[CaseyRyback]

I still want Shawn Ryan to do Max Payne. The shield and payne are so close I think it would be awesome

[SneakyPenguin]

who does ryan play? im thinking of some of them, and i can definately see it. as long as they dont do keanu.

who here thinks christian bale COULD pull off batman? i do.

[CaseyRyback]

who does ryan play? im thinking of some of them, and i can definately see it. as long as they dont do keanu.

who here thinks christian bale COULD pull off batman? i do.

Shawn Ryan is a producer. He created the Shield, which is along the same type of lines as Max Payne(vigilante cop who has own definition of right and wrong). He acquired the film rights a year or so ago and no one has heard anything since.

[SteveMcQ]

I wonder how he's going to incorporate the trademark doves/pigeons dispersing in slow-mo in Metroid? There are no doves/pigeons in space.

[SneakyPenguin]

ohh. yep he would be great for it. as long as he doesnt abuse his new found power of bullet time. it would have a great story, and well developed characters too.

[Theenternal]

with John Woo's name on it, its even better now than the SMB movie :P

[dragonzknight]

the problem is how do you create a coherent metroid story without dumbing it down for the mainstream audience?

[Theenternal]

They could cast Segourni Weaver, people would understand the girl kill alien thing then :)

[Wshakspear]

I could see the chozo storyline working well as a movie. NP had a comic YEARS ago that would be a pretty cool movie...

[Alpha2]

They've been planning a Metroid movie ever since Prime came out and sold a million copies. Glad to see they got a well known action director at least.

Metroid is a very simple story, there's no need to dumb it down. If anything you have to be afraid they'll cram too much useless crap into it like they did streetfighter just because the idiot director thought there was no story.

(honest to god, the director said the streetfighter game had "no story" in an old EGM interview before the movie was released. "you just put your quarter in and the characters are just there.")

If Woo really is doing it all he has to do is play through Zero Mission, Prime and Fusion and he has a triology ripe for the exploiting.

[Doylerulez]

They may not dumb it down, but there is not much dialogue/characters with the abilty to speak in Metroid games, with Fusion the minor exception. I could see the space pirates or the chozo as a possibility, but I'll wait to judge anymore until more than just a director is named comes available.

If they do use the mother brain story line, they should add King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard as her henchmen. Now that would rock.

[Alpha2]

well according to gamespot and from what I read in the Yahoo article(http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=1&u=/nm/20040407/en_nm/leisure_metroid_dc) they seem to be on the right track atleast initially, drawing from the games storyline to build the movie and with a 100million dollar budget they're already inbetter shape than Resident Evil was with it's firts movie.

[Theenternal]

If they do use the mother brain story line, they should add King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard as her henchmen. Now that would rock. I think that is something we can only dream of....too bad :) who would you have play King Hippo or Eggplant?

[bmulligan]

Metroid is now the latest victim.

That was my first thought when I saw this thread. The fun part about Metroid is that you actually get to BE Samus. You get to control the character, do the flips, shoot the enemies yourself. IMO I don't think it matters who the director is, this movie will fulfill all expectations of failure. I thinking of Tomb Raider in space, wait for the licensed movie game to follow and be just as sucky.

[AnthonyRoundtree]

oooops...
wrong thread... will discuss this later...

[Intrakitt]

Wow that makes me feel so much better now that John Woo is making a game movie! What with films like Bulletproof Monk, Broken Arrow and the awesome TV movie (does anyone remember this?) Blackjack to his name, you know it'll be great. :roll:

Maybe Nicolas Cage could play the Meta Ridley and Ben Affleck would play the Metroid Prime (with a lot of make-up, anything's possible). Dolph Lundgren would make a special appearance as the Punisher.

[Gothic Walrus]

If they do use the mother brain story line, they should add King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard as her henchmen. Now that would rock. I think that is something we can only dream of....too bad :) who would you have play King Hippo or Eggplant?

Patrick Stewart and Tim Allen, respectively. :D

I wonder how he's going to incorporate the trademark doves/pigeons dispersing in slow-mo in Metroid? There are no doves/pigeons in space.

Simple...a gigantic herd of Metroids dispersing in slow-motion. Problem solved. :D

[DenisDFat]

This is going to be awful.

Almost as bad as metroid prime

[RedvsBlue]

I dunno I couldn't stand more than 15 minutes of Prime. Can I handle anymore worth of the movie without leaving the theatre?

[jaykrue]

King Hippo: Fat Guy from Butterfly Effect
Eggplant Wizard: need a whiny, annoying voice - Gilbert Gottfried

[bmulligan]

Hey dennis D Fat- now you can add something else to your list of things that suck. I noticed your girlfriend was not on that list though.

[DenisDFat]

character limit attaiun.

And I have no girlfriend.

Any ladies out there hot for the DDF? Don't hove, there's plent of me to go around.