A quick round up of games-to-movies news then, starting with Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford talking about the Borderlands movie.
It’s no secret we did a deal with Lionsgate and Arad Productions to have a Borderlands film made. That’s really an interesting angle. We’ll see what happens there. I’ll tell you, I trust those guys a lot. Ari and Avi Arad are great,aAnd Ari really wants to be the guy to figure out how to make good video game movies.
There are a a lot of guys in video games who feel it’s a big risk to see a film made because so far there haven’t been great examples of great video game films and fortunately, the Arads figured it out when Avi was doing Marvel and did Spider-Man and Iron Man and X-Men; he figured out how to make comic book movies that are really fun and do right by the franchises that are really engaging and entertaining for large audiences. That gives me a lot of hope that working with them we can figure out a good film.”
Next up, a quick word from David Anfossi, Head of Studio, Eidos-Montréal, regarding the Thief movie.
We have always been passionate about telling stories and bringing them to different mediums. With the intricate world of THIEF being made into a feature film, a larger audience will be able to dive into this universe
And finally, the Fallout movie, or more precisely, why there isn’t one. Bethesda Game Studios executive producer Todd Howard explains.:
We’ve had a couple of in-roads, particularly with Fallout, which is a bit stickier than Elder Scrolls, but everybody’s kind of asked and I’ve taken a number of meetings over the years and nothing quite clicked where I felt, ‘Oh, that would be as good as the game.’
And that may happen. I don’t rule it out, but nothing really has clicked where – the games are popular enough and that’s their identity. Fallout 4, if there had been a Fallout movie, you’d feel different about Fallout when we’d announced Fallout 4 and one of them wouldn’t be quite right and you wouldn’t want that to be the game, where the movie takes it in another direction.
I would say we have a pretty high bar as far as what we would want it to be if it ever happened and nothing’s quite clicked. Even little things like, ‘What does the vault suit look like?’ – every little thing we obsess over so the game is the thing where it really exists
The Lone Steven
Yea… n, I disagree with Todd Howard. Fallout already had an identify. 3 was a bad fallout game but good game overall. New Vegas was what i feel a Fallout game should be and the franchise is overdue to move on from having Vault oriented PCs. That and there are so many dumbed down elements of 4 that i dislike along with from what i’ve heard and seen, the plot is just crap. A fallout movie could work but i feel it would be best to do Fallout 1. Tis simple, tis long enough to work for a 2-3 hour film.
Thief, no. Just no. Only because the director of Hitman:The action movie and Hitman:Oh, look, there is a bit of something that Agent 47 is known for but still the action movie wants to make that part of his cinenimatic universe. How the **** will that work? Bethesda pretty much owns the IP, i think and i can’t see them wanting to do a film at this point.
Borderlands, if they do it in the style of the game, it could work.