Shadow of the Colossus to get the Hollywood Movie Treatment
Posted by Karen in Monday Moan, tags: Films, Hollywood, Movies, Playstation, video games
Now I’m not really against games been made in to movies, well some of them I am! But, there comes a time when we must say to Hollywood “NO!” and this is one of those times.
Shadow of the Colossus is a truly visual PlayStation 2 game, ok so maybe there is not too much to it, the idea is to ride your horse around the mythical land, find the different Colossi and kill them, which is no easy task as the creature are huge and I mean huge.
But honestly how can you turn this game into a film, there is one character killing the creatures, would you sit through a film for 90 mins. to 2 hours with a guy firing arrows at giants, climbing up them and then killing them?
Supposedly the script will make some major changes to make the film more action packed and interesting, but surely if this is done then it takes away the spirit of the games haunting feel with it’s melancholy music and peaceful landscapes.
I personally thought this was a wind up from one of my friends until they pointed me in the direction of The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog with info on the film. So what next a movie version of The Sims, or even Pacman (or have they done that already 
) I mean it’s bad enough that Hollywood has ran out of ideas in making movies and has to re-imagine/re-make some of the classic movies, but to keep making video game movies, I suppose one good thing of this Shadow of the Colossus movie is, so far the name Uwe Boll hasn’t spung up 
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it is funny how hollywood will try anything now a days to make some money. The game always look good, but a movie? I think you are right that this is a bit of a rediculous decision.
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Its not normal to see a game to made in to a movie most often but its just the opposite I have seen many moves to have been made in to movies Matrix for example. I really do enjoy those kind of games a lot. Well lets see what this movie got in store for us. I am sure its one the best games around.
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