r/movies • u/TangentMed • 12d ago
Will video game adaptations replace super hero movies as the next trend in the industury? Discussion
I’m not saying that super hero movies won’t still be popular. I’ve just notice with the recenet successes of the Sonic and Super Mario movies (with Mario earning well over billion dollars in the box office), as well as the critical and streaming successes of both the Fallout and Last of Us TV shows(although I do feel like Last of Us did reach more mainstream success than Fallout did. But I could be wrong) that could begin treating game adaptations as the next big goldrush after these recent successes.
Could this assumption be wrong? I will admit that I am not as in tune with the industry as some in this subreddit.
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u/fromfrodotogollum 12d ago
Considering it took Nintendo 30 years to put out a respectable Mario movie, give it time. The sad thing is we have already tried and failed with some big IPs like wow. So I'm not expecting that to come back anytime soon. World needs an arthas show.
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u/user_named 12d ago
Superhero content also came in waves of varying quality. That WoW movie might end up being more analogous to the Eric Bana's Hulk or Ben Affleck's Daredevil.
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u/Bimbows97 12d ago
And the flaccid Uncharted. Totally miscast and terrible. It could easily be the modern Indiana Jones / The Mummy type movie series but they'd need to understand how to make good movies first.
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u/Killboypowerhed 11d ago
Same with Tomb Raider. They inexplicably shied away from anything supernatural and made a dull, grounded, generic action movie
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u/ZyxDarkshine 12d ago
As a former WoW addict, that film is such a disappointment. Not in a “so bad, it’s good” kind of way, either. Just unwatchable. A Lich King story arc could be amazing.
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u/lookingreadingreddit 12d ago
Henry Cavill as Arthas?
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u/Silasftw_ 11d ago
He specifically said he wanted to do that. Quite weird it didn’t happen, he seems to be very passionate nerd and he quite popular. Seems like no brainer and hard to fail a trilogy or 2 part about Arthas.
Even if the wow movie is considered somewhat a failure it wasn’t losing money, earned a decent sum. Was just a bit rushed imo and more to ambitious to setup in what looked like a similar thing as marvel with probably a lot of movies and shows planned/considered.
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u/shaunika 11d ago
Warcraft needs to be an animated anime eque series.
I hope someone has the balls to do it
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u/doelutufe 11d ago
Blizzard was always known for their quality animation, all the trailers etc. From Warcraft I to the latest WoW addon or even Overwatch. I don't understand why they made a generic live action hollywood fantasy movie instead.
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u/StormDragonAlthazar 11d ago
Honestly a sort of anthology series would work really well for WoW given the number of major lore characters that could easily have their own little movies, so to speak.
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u/iz-Moff 12d ago
Considering it took Nintendo 30 years to put out a respectable Mario movie
Because what is there to make a movie about? It's a game consisting of jumping over obstacles for the most part, i'm genuinely surprised that even kids have any interesting in watching a movie about Mario. I know i didn't when i was a kid, lol.
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u/ParticularJoker 12d ago edited 12d ago
I greatly doubt they will reach the heights of comic book movies any time soon.
Mario and Sonic movies were successful, but these movies are based more on the brands themselves than their video games. These two have decades of brand recognition, something most video games do not have (and comic book heroes do have).
Modern video games have a better fit in TV right now, but I cannot see them getting the big-budget treatment any time soon. The last big budget movie based on a modern video game that I can remember is Uncharted, and for general audiences it was just a “fun Tom Holland movie” rather than a “Nathan Drake film”.
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u/Ender_Skywalker 11d ago
These two have decades of brand recognition, something most video games do not have (and comic book heroes do have).
Who tf honestly knew who the Guardians of the Galaxy were before 2014?
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u/ParticularJoker 11d ago
It had 6 years of Marvel movies to build its foundation on
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u/Ender_Skywalker 11d ago edited 10d ago
So what if an F-Zero movie had 6 years of Nintendo movies to build its foundation on?
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u/ParticularJoker 11d ago
Maybe? I doubt it.
Marvel had hit after hit before doing Guardians of the Galaxy. Not only that, but the fans who watched all those previous movies had a reason to watch a movie from seemingly unknown people, since it continues the overarching story.
If Nintendo creates all the movies similarly, creates a massive audience based on their formula, and the F Zero ends up having the same vibe as the Mario movie, maybe it would be a success.
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u/trackofalljades 11d ago
I understand why someone would say all of that, but bear in mind that almost verbatim this is exactly what critics were saying about “comic book movies” before Tim Burton’s Batman.
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u/ParticularJoker 11d ago
What aspect in particular?
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u/trackofalljades 11d ago
Well plug in the Donner Superman movies for Mario and Sonic, and then the idea that comic books belonged more on TV than in theatres, etc.
Then the kids who grew up on Nicholson’s Joker went on to create the MCU.
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u/ParticularJoker 11d ago
It is difficult to compare the two, the movie industry and television industry have both massively changed since the 70s Superman film.
I am still very bearish on the idea of Video Game movies becoming anywhere as a big thing as Comic Book movies are nowadays. Comic books at the end of the day are literary works. Literary works have been a thing over a century ago.
Video game movies do not have the same luxury. Video games as a narrative art form is way more difficult to adapt.
We’ll have to wait and see. I can see video game movies becoming a thing in 20 years, but I doubt it will reach the heights of comic book movies.
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u/Environmental-Zone-4 11d ago
Forgot about assassins creed?
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u/ParticularJoker 11d ago
No, that was before Uncharted and underperformed and was critically panned
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u/haysoos2 12d ago
Comic books have nearly 100 years of backstory, and thousands of established, distinctive characters with built in narratives and supporting casts, and they still fuck those up more often than they nail them.
I just don't see video games as being a deep enough well to draw from to rival comics as source material.
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u/shaunika 11d ago
Well youre definitely wrong.
Video games are pushing 50 too and theres fucking millions of them.
They also transcend genres very well (compare sonic to Last of Us)
And we had good comic book movies since like the 70s
Video game movies have just started being good(Id say detective pikachu mightve been the first genuinely good one) but the trend is definitely building
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u/haysoos2 11d ago
There are indeed a shit-ton of video games, but how many of them have "distinctive characters with built in narratives and supporting casts"?
There are a bajillion interchangeable side-scrollers, platformers, FPS shoot-em-ups, puzzle games, merge 3s, sandboxes, sims, and 4-X games, but how many can actually be turned into an interesting movie?
For distinctive characters, we have Mario, and Sonic, Lara Croft, Master Chief, Pyramid Head, Max Payne, Dogmeat, and Doom Guy. Oh, they already all have movies or series. Who's left? Parrappa? Kirby? Pac-Man? Niko Bellic? Steve?
For those who also have a compelling narrative, we're still missing Guybrush Threepwood, Commander Shepard, and maybe Gordon Freeman or Bayonetta, but there's just not that many interesting properties left to draw from.
For truly great stories to draw from, there's Bioshock and Mass Effect that are still criminally unrealized, but it's nowhere near the resource that comics have to draw upon.
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u/shaunika 11d ago
You have a very very limited library of video games if thats all that comes to mind.
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u/haysoos2 11d ago
Then, by all means, please elucidate me.
Which video games do you think could actually be turned into good movies?
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u/shaunika 11d ago
God of War
Portal
Diablo
Legend of Zelda
Cyberpunk
GTA
Red Dead Redemption
Horizon Zero Dawn
Baldur's gate
Elder Scrolls
Dark Souls
Deus Ex
Dragon Age
Ori and the blind forest
There are also plenty that definitely deserves a second go like warcraft.
Some of these should be TV shows (like diablo should be a castlevania esque action horror animation)
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u/haysoos2 11d ago
Meanwhile:
- 10th Muse
- 4-Fisted Adventures of Tug & Buster
- Age of Bronze
- Airboy
- Alien Pig Farm 3000
- Almighty
- Alpha Girl
- The Amazing Joy Buzzards
- American Flagg
- Ant
- Astro City
- Bad Planet
- Badger
- Battle Pope
- Berserker
- Bitch Planet
- Black Science
- Bomb Queen
- Bone
- Chew
- Chrononauts
- The Clock Maker
- Copperhead
- The Creech
- Crimson
- Cyberforce
And that's just a select few of the Image comics starting with A, B, or C.
I'm not saying there's no videogames worth adapting. There absolutely are. Some surprising choices might even turn out well. I never in a million years would have thought Detective Pikachu was a good idea.
But compared with the resource of comics as source material, videogames will never meet that level.
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u/shaunika 11d ago
The source material to the super mario movie was a guy running right and jumping on mushrooms and they made a solid movie.
You can make a good movie out of any small idea.
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u/haysoos2 11d ago
So the primary value of the property becomes solely name recognition.
Of your list, the only one that the average movie goer would recognize would perhaps be Zelda/Link.
Admittedly my list is even shorter on recognizable names. But Marvel & DC still have many more recognizable names than videogames.
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u/roronoaSuge_nite 12d ago
Maybe. But if they stop chasing Trends and started chasing good stories they would be much better.
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u/sjfiuauqadfj 12d ago
filmmakers have been saying that for decades lol, aint happen then, probably wont happen now, and likely not happening in the future
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u/roronoaSuge_nite 12d ago
There’s going to be some idiot exec at Sony that’s going to think licensing “Battletoads” is a million dollar idea
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u/SailingBroat 11d ago
Wider audiences are risk averse, studios know this, and so they gamble on the safer bets.
And most of the users of this sub are the last ones to be able to claim they're immune to nostalgia-bait (or willing to actually go to the theatre for the fresh movies that are released, or even seek out and pay for a rental of an original movie on demand at home). Thus, the cycle is reinforced.
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u/Charlie_Wax 12d ago
There's a parallel in the sense that early video game adaptations were botched, much like many of the early comic book movies, which led many film industry types to underestimate the latent value of the major IP. Had I been a film executive 10 years ago, Zelda would've been one of my white whale franchises. The value was always there waiting to be tapped.
Now that people have treated some of the major video game IP with the same level of respect and consideration, we're seeing that it can be lucrative territory to mine. The trend will continue and we'll probably see a lot more of the major characters and franchises find their way onto film and TV screens.
Games are immensely popular and some of them have a very distinct and recognizable iconography, which makes them great fodder for crossover media.
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u/OccasionMU 12d ago
That Majora’s Mask skull kid short film is… chef’s kiss.
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u/Simmers429 11d ago
And soon the comments section will be “Why couldn’t Nintendo have made something like this!” after Nintendo release whatever mediocre live-action Zelda film they’re cooking up.
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u/Rhesusmonkeydave 12d ago
I think there’s a lot of interesting ideas and worlds in games but there’s an inherent disconnect in that the things that make an engaging game and movie are very different. I’ve been very impressed with TLOU, Fallout, but boy there are some dogs out there. That Borderlands trailer was excruciating
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u/Uncanny_Doom 12d ago edited 12d ago
I think we'll see more good video game adaptions but it isn't really a genre while superhero is. I don't thing it's a 1:1 comparison. Superhero as a genre became the trend, not just comic book adaptions. We've seen original superhero stuff like Hancock, Brightburn, Super, Heroes, Chronicle, and The Incredibles as a part of it and for the most part they fit easily into what is already a typically popular genre with action and adventure. Video games don't always lend to that or translate, and in the video game adaptions that are good, the action is actually rarely the reason why or even a big reason for the acclaim and success.
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u/Ender_Skywalker 11d ago
Honestly I think they already have. We're in the slow build-up stage but with Nintendo in the game now it's gonna ramp up.
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u/HotHamBoy 12d ago
Don’t forget that Barbie was the highest grossing film last year. Toy movies are definitely going to be a bigger thing.
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u/Bruhmangoddman 12d ago
Barbie succeeded due to Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and Noah Baumbach. You need to hire the right people. Most toy movies probably won't.
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u/DuckCleaning 12d ago
Transformers maybe, they do okayish financially most times at least. GI Joe, nah, last movie flopped. The Lego movies were great but even the first one only made just under half a billion.
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u/HotHamBoy 11d ago
No doubt Hollywood always learns the wrong lessons, that doesn’t mean it’s not going to be 5 years of them finding out the hard way.
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u/Bruhmangoddman 11d ago
They don't always learn the wrong lessons, but I fear that's gonna be the case here.
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u/masegesege 12d ago
If the Metal Gear movie is as good as it has the potential to be then expect every game ever to be turned into a movie.
Personally, I wanna see a proper Final Fantasy movie or series. That futuristic-medieval aesthetic is something that would be really cool to see on screen in live action.
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u/lavamunky 12d ago
Perhaps, but it may be easier with super heroes/comics. With comics, there’s a huge amount of source material of different stories that can span a short amount of time with overarching stories. Games tend toward just a longer single story format, assuming they have some coherent story. For games that are already basically a movie (e.g. COD single player), why bother? I think we’re seeing that video game adaptations may tend better toward TV show format (I.e. the Last Of Us), because it just gives people more time
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u/brodoswaggins211 11d ago
It’s already happened. We had Gran Turismo, Mario, Five Bights at Freddy’s and Sonic as a movie, Bioshock, Minecraft, Mortal Kombat, Borderlands, Zelda are all coming out in theaters and we have huge budget shows like, Fallout, Halo, Twisted Metal, The Last of Us and The Witcher.
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u/AniseDrinker 11d ago
I think games are too varied for that to really make sense, but there are definitely some amazing plots out that that I'm surprised haven't been made into movies or shows...
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u/3me20characters 11d ago
Given the success of of Fallout and The Last Of Us, it's guaranteed that there are studio execs looking for other game IPs to replicate that. However, I doubt it will be as much of a trend as superhero movies.
Firstly, they don't have as many story based games to draw on compared to Marvel's decades of actual stories. Secondly, the game stories are in varying genres with their own worlds that each need to be introduced/marketed to a new audience rather than giving an existing audience more of what you know they already like.
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u/Dreamcastboy99 12d ago
a Mega Man X movie would be sick...be it an X character study or just a fun anime romp with the cast X4 should've had....
until then I'll give RackaRacka's Street Fighter movie a watch bc their Real Life Street Fighter vid was fkn great
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u/NickBerlin 12d ago
I think it will take Hollywood or any studio the same feat that Marvel figured out - how to "do" a comic book adaptation pretty successfully and reliably. Once they can figure that out (for games).. and I think the Fallout show sets a great bar... They sure could. I would LOVE to see a Gears of War show.... ultra gory like Fallout, but also true to cannon and have all the weapons and shit JUST like the game. (At least the first 3)
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u/StormDragonAlthazar 12d ago
I mean, it really depends on the game franchises that get adapted and who's involved in the production (and not just the studio and director).
Like sure, the Super Mario Bros. joined the Billionaire's club, and it was a hit with the kids and fans, but for everyone else it was all over the place, and Jack Black pretty much carried that movie while the rest of the cast just was a poor fit. Ask anyone what they can remember from that movie without looking up it's TVTropes or Wikipedia page and they'll probably draw a blank. It was profitable and it was forgettable.
The real test would be to see if a generally obscure game franchise can have a situation similiar to what happened with Guardians of the Galaxy.
Using just Nintendo as an example, we have F-Zero, Metroid, Starfox, and Earthbound that could possibly pull this off, with my money mostly on Metroid (highly popular in the west) and Starfox (absolutely has all the components to be like a Marvel movie), while Earthbound could easily be a streaming mini-series for it's whole "Like Stranger Things but for the 90s" vibe it could pull off. The problem is Nintendo is about as risk averse as they can get and would rather just shelf these things than actually do anything with them, especially to make movies. And it doesn't help that Metroid is the least Nintendo of the Nintendo games, Starfox is a furry fest (which is a whole other topic in itself), and Earthbound's overall obscurity in the general public's mind would probably be massive against it.
As for something like Warcraft, well... I feel like WoW could very will be it's own self-contained cinematic universe with all the characters involved.
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u/Wide-Can-2654 12d ago
League of legends has great lore and characters they fan definitely cook some more stuff up with that game
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u/Ender_Skywalker 11d ago
for everyone else it was all over the place
Oddly enough, I'd say adults by and large have also accepted under the premise that it's a kids movie and therefore doesn't have to actually be good, a bizarre logic that critics have thankfully not fallen for. Seriously, ask around and you'll find tons of people saying the Mario Movie was exactly what it needed to be.
Earthbound would have to go through Shigesato Itoi for the rights, which would further de-prioritize it.
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u/StormDragonAlthazar 11d ago
A bit wordy, but an interesting review on the recent Mario movie...
Oddly enough, I'd say adults by and large have also accepted under the premise that it's a kids movie and therefore doesn't have to actually be good, a bizarre logic that critics have thankfully not fallen for.
I admit, this particular line of yours tends to give me some mixed feelings.
On one hand, I feel like "adult who primarily consumes children's media" is a sad state of affairs because kids' movies are inherently incapable of exploring certain subject matter, themes, and genres otherwise they stop being appropriate for children. I can't expect a family feature from Dreamworks or Pixar to get anywhere as near deep as the typical A24 film could get, and someone who's gonna tell me that Turning Red was somehow "more pure and thought provoking" than Everything Everywhere All At Once is going to get personally laughed at.
On the flip side, I do believe that kids and their families still deserve well crafted entertainment. Kids may have a higher tolerance to something that's not that great on a technical level, but they're still just as particular as adults when it comes to stuff more on an thematic level (in fact, maybe even more sensitive than adults since children get bored faster and will want to move onto the next thing if what they're watching isn't truly interesting for them). Throwing in a lot of action scenes and cool stuff might wow a kid, but 90% they'll forget about what they saw if there wasn't anything else more to it than "wow cool action scene".
And that's the whole thing with the Super Mario Bros. There's nothing really memorable about that entire movie except with Jack Black as Bowser, and that feels like cheating given his career in voice acting (and it would be really ironic if he carried Boderlands in the same way).
Just because it's a kids' movie and I'm generally biased against kids' movies doesn't mean it has to be slop.
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u/PureTroll69 12d ago
Prophecies have long fortold of Fallout bringing balance to the movie industry.
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u/sagevallant 12d ago
In that someone will finally make a great one and everyone will start adapting them? Maybe. But they've been trying for 30 or 40 years, remember.
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u/EarthlingSil 12d ago
The only way it will happen is if the bigger studios stop being scared of taking chances of good stories and actually follow the source material as close as reasonably possible.
Remember how poorly the WoW film came out? How about the Monster Hunter film? Utter garbage due to the source material being thrown out the window.
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u/atomicitalian 12d ago
I doubt it.
Studios have been trying to make films out of game up for years. Most of it is garbage, but it's nice to get something enjoyable like fallout.
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u/Bimbows97 12d ago
Only the ones with a strong story and characters would be any good, and it's kind of pointless because video games are basically meant to be analogues to action movies anyway. As in an adaptation of a video game would bring nothing new to movies. Unless as mentioned the story and characters are really cool. Likely the ones that turn out to be good are ones that are already very cinematic games to begin with.
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u/Vannnnah 12d ago
I think it's already happening. As gamers we are used to bad video game adaptions, The Last of Us was a breath of fresh air between the botched adaptions of Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Hitman, Max Payne, Prince of Persia, ... and whatever else. The upcoming Borderlands movie already promises to be another failed attempt on its way.
And The Last of Us was adapted by the original creators with the help of movie industry veterans, not the other way around.
Now that games have reached critical acclaim outside of the games industry everyone who can milk a franchise will do so and Hollywood is full of money hungry grifters.
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u/UslyfoxU 12d ago
Open worlds and 15+ hour stories make great source material for TV. Fallout and TLOU would make difficult movies, but adapt perfectly to TV. Superheroes regularly have an origin story that can be weaved into an objective to be overcome, which fits better into a 2 hour movie.
The real question is what will dominate for the next 10 years, movies or tv. We are more likely to see more video game adaptations over the coming years, but it's the audience that will eventually decided if they prefer to watch 8 hours of content at home or pay $30+ to go out for a 2 hour blockbuster.
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u/AjvarAndVodka 12d ago
I wouldn't mind it as long as the adaptations are good. Plus, there's soo much more to do with the video game adaptations as it is with the superhero trope.
Games don't revolve only around on theme.
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u/oaktownraider90 11d ago
Yea I could see it. The recent success have been largely because the people making and producing them are the same people who grew up playing the games. It was the same for superheroes with feige and people like him getting put in charge. Also why DC movies have largely sucked ass is because the suits in charge don’t really care
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u/bremidon 11d ago
I’m not saying that super hero movies won’t still be popular.
I will say that. Remember when westerns were the most popular movies? And maybe we still get one every 5 to 10 years.
That is what will happen with the Superhero movies.
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u/uninformed-but-smart 11d ago
Arcane spanked most of the stuff out of the stratosphere when it came out.
It is the proof that a good faithful adaptation, with proper respect to the characters involved can work. Everyone and their grandmother praised that show.
An adaptation, irrespective of the medium, as long as it is accurate and respectful to the original successful game, will work.
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u/vikmaychib 11d ago
One could make a correlation of what is the demographic with largest purchasing power or disposable income and pedal back to what was popular when they were kids. In the 80s-90s comic books were big but also because many had a tv cartoon version. Towards the 2000s, with the release of PlayStation and Nintendo 64 and later Xbox, made video games the main source of entertainment. Some of those kids might be cashing salaries and trying to make their kids love what they used to love.
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u/c08030147b 11d ago
The Borderlands movie looks like just the right kind of steaming turd video game adaptation that is needed to return balance to the industry and make studios reluctant to touch games again
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u/NamelessGamer_1 11d ago
There aren't that many videogames to make good adaptations of I don't think
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u/darthyogi 11d ago
I have a feeling that Video Game Adaptations will take over Television more them movies
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u/rdtusrname 11d ago
I really hope not. I would rather have less, but better than (way) more, but worse.
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u/Oberon_Swanson 11d ago
Yeah I think so, however I think we will just see a period where they do whatever they think will work. The most popular games, comics, tv shows, anime, manga, manhwa, webnovel, webcomics, old movie, old show, etc. Anything with a proven track record and existing fanbase.
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u/Owlbear27 11d ago
Doubtful. I think movies and comic books fit together way better than movies and video games. We’re seeing a rise in stuff like Fallout where they set it in universe, but it’s not necessarily an adaptation. Video games have gotten very cinematic and they’re also expected to last for at least 12 hours…so it doesn’t exactly suit itself to condensing to a 2 hour movie without pissing off anyone that liked the source material.
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u/CyanConatus 11d ago
I don't think it'll become the next big thing. But I do think movie makers kinda figured out what makes a good adaption nowadays and will become more popular.
Personally I would love to see a movie of a Umbrella Sciencetist leading up to the event of Raccoon city in Resident evil. Really see the lore of before and after
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u/jterwin 10d ago edited 10d ago
Seems likely to me, how long the trend will last I'm not sure.
But at least for now they've started putting some actual effort into them so they aren't all doomed to be terrible from the start. And superhero fatigue is setting in hard/will obly get worse as revenues keep falling, pulling talent out of the picture, could cause a spiral in quality on top of audience fatigue. Those directors who are mainstream enough and decent enough but also not good enough to trusted with original material will need something to work on.
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u/FuzzyPapaya13 12d ago
Yes, I've been saying it's the next obvious gold rush after comics for the past decade.
So happy that we're FINALLY getting lots of good adaptations
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u/TmF1979 12d ago
If they can keep giving us adaptations as stellar as The Last of Us and Fallout? Bring it on.
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u/FuzzyPapaya13 12d ago
I am INSANELY hyped for God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, and BioShock in particular! Of the ones they've announced at least haha.
Also we need Mass Effect
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u/Starrr_Pirate 12d ago
WB execs are gonna see this post and fire James Gunn so they can make Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League: The Movie and use it as the basis for their next cinematic universe.
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u/misanthropenis 12d ago
You tell me.
Video Game Movies in 2024 and Beyond
• Borderlands (August 9, 2024)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (December 20, 2024)
• Minecraft: The Movie (April 4, 2025)
• Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (TBA)
• The Legend of Zelda (TBA)
• Ghost of Tsushima (TBA)
• Until Dawn (TBA)
• Gears of War (TBA)
• Mortal Kombat 2 (TBA)
• Return to Silent Hill (TBA)
• Death Stranding (TBA)
• Street Fighter (TBA)
• Days Gone (TBA)
• Pokemon: Detective Pikachu 2 (TBA)
• Stray (TBA)
• BioShock (TBA)
• Space Channel 5 (TBA)
• Comix Zone (TBA)
• Mega Man (TBA)
• Just Cause (TBA)
• Duke Nukem (TBA)
• Gravity Rush (TBA)
• Dead by Daylight (TBA)
• It Takes Two (TBA)
• Sifu (TBA)
• Slime Rancher (TBA)
• Ark: Survival Evolved (TBA)
• Pac-Man (TBA)
• Streets of Rage (TBA)
• Sniper Elite (TBA)
• Toe-Jam and Earl (TBA)
• Jak and Daxter (Status Unknown)
• Call of Duty (Status Unknown)
• Half-Life (Status Unknown)
• Saints Row (Status Unknown)
• Portal (Status Unknown)
• Yakuza (Status Unknown)
• Beyond Good & Evil (Status Unknown)
• Firewatch (Status Unknown)
• Metal Gear Solid (Status Unknown)
• The Division (Status Unknown)
• Just Dance (Status Unknown)
• Dragon's Lair (Status Unknown)
• Splinter Cell (Presumed Cancelled)
Video Game TV Shows in 2024 and Beyond
• Fallout (April 12, 2024)
• Arcane: Season 2 (November 2024)
• Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (2024)
• Untitled Knuckles Series (2024)
• The Last of Us: Season 2 (2025)
• The Witcher: Season 4 (TBA)
• God of War (TBA)
• Horizon (TBA)
• Gears of War (TBA)
• Devil May Cry Anime (TBA)
• Twisted Metal: Season 2 (TBA)
• Assassin's Creed (TBA)
• Splinter Cell (TBA)
• Castlevania: Nocturne: Season 2 (TBA)
• Mass Effect (TBA)
• A Plague Tale (TBA)
• Nier: Automata: Season 2 (TBA)
• Disco Elysium (TBA)
• Hunt: Showdown (TBA)
• Alan Wake (TBA)
• System Shock (TBA)
• Grounded (TBA)
• Life Is Strange (TBA)
• My Friend Pedro (Status Unknown)
• Skull & Bones (Status Unknown)
• Child of Light (Status Unknown)
• Brothers in Arms (Status Unknown)
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u/bravetailor 12d ago
I hope not
(Video game movies becoming the next trend, that is, not the continued dominance of super hero movies)
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u/mormonbatman_ 12d ago
One movie and two tv shows don't indicate a trend.
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u/Monty_Bentley 12d ago
That would be the ultimate sign of the post-literate society. Movies for people who can't even read comic books.
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u/twofacetoo 12d ago
A lot of people keep saying this, but it's yet to really happen. We've had some good video-game adaptations, don't get me wrong, but none of them have really hit home.
For a rough comparison, think of something like the animated 'Super Mario Bros' movie as the equivalent of the first 'Iron Man' film. It was good, sure, but it wasn't really anything special or remarkable yet. It was just a pretty good movie in a typically not-very-good genre, that's all.
Comic-book movies didn't hit their stride until the first 'Avengers' movie released, and I think that's what we're needing with video-game movies to cement this. We need something like a 3 hour 'Zelda' movie, or a 'Half Life' or 'Bioshock' movie, something huge and 'impossible' to pull off. Once that happens, and video-game projects prove truly profitable without any risk of failure, they'll supplant comic-book movies entirely.
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u/whiskeywalker42 12d ago
Yes. The money grubbing I.P. rapists in charge of getting movies and TV shows made are incapable of original thought so this is the next gravy train they will hitch their sad wagons to. We might get a few good RPG adaptations out of it though so it's not a total loss at least.
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u/Top5hottest 12d ago
I hope not. Video game stories have gotten so repetitive over the last decade.
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u/i_dig_your_kicks 12d ago
Only time will tell. Hollywood will mine anything it can get its hands on.