https://fixupx.com/CriticalOverlo3/status/1817390864718590133

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    lawyers are running everything into the dirt.

    by creating a property tied to an IP, it extends the life of the underlying IP and expands the defendable property under the underlying IP. usually an option to make a movie comes with a sunset where the option expires, so taking an idea and then pasting IP onto it "solves" a problem.

    for a lawyer's brain there is no downside to making Colgate Toothpaste: The Movie using a script that has nothing to do with it.

  • egg1918 [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    Investors won't risk it on an original piece of work. Much safer bet to invest in an established brand.

    So any writers with original ideas have to jam them into an existing IP to have any hope of getting it off the ground.

    The end result is nobody gets what they want. The writer doesn't get to write their own true material, the original fans of the video game don't get an accurate story to their liking, and everyone else will be put off by their existing thoughts of the video game.

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    Man I hated how they pulled this shit with the World War Z movie. That was such a fucking cool book, and then the movie had absolutely nothing to do with it at all, with the singular exception that they both had zombies. I would even say describing that as a movie is generous, it was more of a screen saver than anything.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      Israel being depicted as a walled fortress surrounded by hordes of evil zombies is an ideological trash bin that's fun to jump in though.

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Cried laughing at the scene where they have to escort the scientist to save the world and 3.5 seconds into the mission he slips on the landing pad and domes himself with his sidearm. Cinematic genius

  • buh [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    “Until Don” and the villain is a dang cheeto cheeto-man

    • Guamer [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      Everything in America was going perfect...

      until Don

    • hopesdead@startrek.website
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      5 months ago

      How do you get a “straight adaptation”? Doesn’t the story involve certain player actions to reach a good ending where everyone ends up alive?

      As I recall there are some fake out moments which make future choices hard to get the good outcome.

      • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        have the audience vote in the theatre

        or do like Clue and send different cuts to different theaters. with digital distribution you could even have changes from one showing to the next.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        Hitman is a game about stealth and they made the movie about 47 gliding through exploding buildings and jumping onto helicopters. They don’r care lol

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      But don’t video game movies notoriously flop? Whereas horror movies almost always turn a profit.

      That plot sounds like a totally run of the mill Blumhouse movie. Just make a horror movie. It’s fine.

      • Guamer [she/her]
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        5 months ago

        That might be changing with stuff like the Sonic and Mario movies, tho obv. this would prob. have a significantly different target audience.

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Game series that is largely about player choice influencing narrative

    Ah yes this is the perfect movie tie-in franchise

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      The original game is like 25% whodunit with the Wesker reveal so its basically Clue with zombies and puzzles. With a good writer it could be fantastic.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    5 months ago

    That's if this is even accurate

    Rumoured in this context basically means "I made it up" made-it-the-fuck-up

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      It was decent. If you want a playable slasher movie, it’s that. So I enjoyed it a lot.

      Personally I’d recommend playing it with a partner or friend where you switch off who’s driving. In the same way as a slasher movie it’s more enjoyable with company.

      • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        Their follow-up The Quarry is decently fun too, if you're into that sort of thing. It's definitely not everybody's cup of tea.