Just let games be games, lol. It's absolutely not a medium that translates well to other forms.
idk I could see Horizon and God of War making for decent source material but Gran fucking Turismo lol? What?
I could see that languishing in development hell forever, just like the adaptation of The Last of Us.
My mind went there first because, really, there's a lot of similarities lmao
If I were doing it, I would limit that to flashbacks and intentionally juxtapose Past Kratos' extreme violence against Dad Kratos' more restrained approach to problems. Make the whole point be that he's kinda realized that his Spartan upbringing fucked him up emotionally and that he's trying not to pass that on to his kid.
Top gear but without :ukkk: hosts and actually taking the cars seriously.
Also could do a deep dive into the esports scene
the :ukkk: hosts are what make the show good though (except clarkson, he's not even funny and is just a massive removed)
edit: oh yeah fair enough, yeah that word does kind of have misogynistic connotations, I probably shouldn't use it in future
Personally I find Hammond the most insufferable, he's a literal castle owning Tory lol.
Oh I didn't know Hammond owned a castle, I quite liked him until now :sadness:
I thought the appeal of Top Gear was the fact that none of the hosts are particularly good people, but that they seemed to have fun in a way that rubs off on the viewer, as long as the viewer is a cis-het-white-male who doesn't think too much about anything presented in the show.
Also I highly recommend the episode where they go to china, which was made in 2018 i think, after the move to Amazon Prime. You get to see China's progress in real time, and hear Clarkson lament the doom of Britain in particular, since his local street has potholes that are older than half of China's highway system.
hear Clarkson lament the doom of Britain in particular
:some-controversy:
edit: it took me so long to find the china sicko emoji
I was imagining something like Driven which is actually unironically a great movie.
This film has been ruined for me by Bad Movie Beatdown, just hearing that extremely British voice dunk on the physics of this scene.
This is so absolutely ridiculous it crosses over to being good lol
It really is lol. Not in like an artistic sense but it is exceptionally good slop if you like motorsports.
The car being both paddle and stick shift at the same time, the track changing from a street track, to a road course, to an oval in one scene, the unrealistic stunts, it's all just :chefs-kiss:
It also has both Sly Stallone and Burt Reynolds. That is a dangerous amount of hot dad energy.
The gran turismo world championships are actually really well done and very very entertaining, and free on youtube, Def worth watching
There are a million ways to make a good racing movie. The fact that the games have no story content whatsoever means you're not creatively bound by anything but "nice car go fast". It's perfect because there's nothing to worry about adapting.
but why "adapt" gran turismo?
just call it "car film #23" or some shit lmao
The game director is actually a big racing culture guy. I'd probably watch a show where he interviews and does ride-alongs with racecar drivers.
Oh that would be sick actually. I'm a big fan of motorsports and stuff so i'd watch
Because it's a popular brand with a cool name. If I was interested in making a car movie, why not do GT? I'll get a bigger budget. If I was Sony, then I want to grow that brand.
Fortunately, our protagonist has been making deliveries for his dad's tofu company down the same track every night.
this is your reminder that a Need for Speed movie with Aaron Paul exists
Isn't that just Fast and the Furious? or am I confusing him with Paul Walker
Apparently there's a disco Elysium tv series in the works. Gotta turn everything into a franchise, fast :yea: :yea: :yea:
I hope the studio that made it joins as consultants and just fuck with the production. Might as well have some fun if you're gonna be an estonian communist in hollywood.
An unaired pilot that goes viral because its just people making veiled insults at all the major production houses.
Idk, maybe it'll actually be good or at least help fund a sequel that's actually good.
The protagonist's grandmother dies in the first episode. She was an Italian baker who specialized in tiramisu.
He creates a racing tournament to honor her.
But! But! The protagonist has multiple personalities. They designed the tournament in order to find a racer fast enough to survive driving so fast that they reverse the rotation of the earth and go back in time to save their grandmother's life.
Gran Turismo but its staring Clint Eastwood so its called Gran Turino Turismo
If the hero isnt a Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec II Nur Edition and it’s just 2 hours of driving through the Nurb, then I dont know what it could be
2 hour Auto Addiction touristenfahrten crash compilation now in cinemas
Gran Turismo: High Speed, Low Drag (TV Series)
A former Game Stop employee (Nicollo "Nico da Freako" Mullenzo) and current cell phone mall kiosk attendant spends his entire life savings ($1400) to purchase a custom Thrustmaster racing wheel + advanced cockpit with the intention of training to be the best virtual racing driver in Howard County, Maryland.
Fueled by Subway pizza subs, a hallucinatory fascination with Joe "The Hummer" Tanto--Sylvester Stallone's character from Driven (2001)--and cocaine, Nico trains hard to the exclusion of all else, including relationships, his job, personal hygiene and paying bills.
Win, Lose, or Bust the Sparks Will Fly!:::
Gran Turismo but it's just an adaptation of The Distance by Cake. (The entire song is about a woman morning a man in a coma who himself is reliving his final race).
Please get the fucking romantic subplots out of my speculative Sci-Fi / high-political-drama show. They added precisely nothing.
I actually thought Horizon Zero Dawn had a pretty cinematic storyline. It's all a matter of whether or not it's done well, but these things so very rarely are, it's probably a fool's hope that it would end up any good. If it were done well enough, I would love to see a show or film with Alloy (who is a great character) in a post post apocalyptic world where environmentalist AI is trying to reseed a planet destroyed by a billionaire tech CEO alongside the MIC. Sounds.fun.
Looking forward to Sony giving another role to Tom Holland as Kratos.
Could be fine if these are new stories taking place in the world of the game
I want the Gran Turismo series to be some old dudes chilling in the GT Car Cafe discussing their favorite 1987 hot hatch
i like to sit on my front porch and listen to clint eastwood mumble out the theme song while grimacing at my neighbors and eating food from a can.
from the comments:
One of the most simplistically powerful,moving,sad,perfect,underappreciated movies ever made. Clint Eastwood's greatest film! Dont get me wrong hes got countless Masterpieces! But this one was his Mona Lisa, his 16th Chapel. Thank you for this Masterpiece Clint and all who helped make this powerful motion picture!!!!
:kitty-cri-texas:
Its for this reason I think the twisted metal series might actually be really good.
Honestly, Horizon and the new God of War want to be movies so bad that a series might work. Not that it'll be good or anything, but it could be at least coherent.
The game industry still rewards a degree of storytelling creativity. Same with literature. There's a plethora of fresh content in this sphere that's been functionally market tested by consumer adoption.
Shows like Witcher, Sonic, and Castelvania proved a certain marketability for game-to-show conversions, we're seeing producers green light more content in this vein as an alternative to just pumping out sequels and reboots forever.
Still waiting for Mat Dickies Wrestling Empire to get a TV adaptation.
B-But if my bideo games aren't turned into films and books, the ghost of Roger Ebert will never respect me :(((((
