Xbox head Phil Spencer has recently announced that the game industry will increasingly provide new subjects for films and TV series. "Times" has decided to recall the most significant examples of the film adaptation of the video game.
The reason for saying Spencer was the release of the shooter «Quantum Break» from the developer of the cult game series Max Payne. Along with the game will be launched and the eponymous TV show, the plot of which is intertwined with the history of video games.
This method of integration of video and TV content will be perhaps the first in history. However, despite the relative youth of the gaming industry, its place in the movie business, it took quite a long time.
The first history of the video game on which the film was shot a full, steel and already popular adventures of brothers Mario - Mario and low chubby lanky skinny Luigi. But despite the popularity of the video game, the film at the box office failed miserably: with a budget of $ 48 million, the creators managed to earn just under $ 21 million. Public and critics the film was met with a negative: for example, on the website IMDb rating of "Superbratev Mario" 1993 is only 4 0 10.
Played plumber Mario Bob Hoskins subsequently admitted that he regretted the decision to play this role. "That's the worst thing I've ever done - he said in an interview. - The whole experience - a nightmare. "
But the film is about Mario - is not only a failure of the video game tape. A year later came the film "Street Fighter" in the video game «Street Fighter II» with Jean-Claude Van Damme in the title role, received devastating reviews. However, unlike "Superbratev Mario" creators on the film even earned: at the box office film earned nearly $ 100 million with a budget of $ 35 million. But the producers in this case, still looked at critics rather than financial success, and decided not to continue the series.
A director Uwe Boll and all received their negative reputation it once took pictures for several games, including Postal, Alone in the Dark and Far Cry. At some point, when the director asked at Blizzard with a proposal to make a film on the legendary game of World of Warcraft, the developers refused. "We will not sell the rights to a picture of you ... especially to you," - responded to the offer in Boll Blizzard.
Movies German director obtained so badly that even fans of games launched on the Internet on-line petition to ban him to make a film on the games.
However, there are so successful films that people have even forget about the connection of the plot of paintings with video games. For example, few people remember that the very successful series of militants "Resident Evil" with Milla Jovovich in the title role - in fact nothing more than a series of games as an adaptation of «Resident Evil». As if in contrast to the works of Boll, director and producer Paul Anderson took five film series and is currently shooting the sixth. All movie "Resident Evil" had a great success at the box office, bringing its creators double or even triple the profit.
Another similar example - Lara Croft movies. The mass audience has no idea that the stunning Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider role was preceded by the low poly model in the computer game of 1996. And now, if you are not a fan of computer games, at the mention of the name of the "Lara Croft" you represent is Jolie, not a computer character.
However, the story of the game is relatively easy to film. It is much harder to make a movie of those games where the plot is of secondary importance, such as auto racing.
However, this did not stop in 2014 to release the film with actor Aaron Paul, loosely based on the well-known series of «Need for Speed» by Electronic Arts. The result had not a movie about racing in its purest form, and the crime drama with elements of comedy, inscribed in the context of high speeds.
The movies become not only computer games. Current trends in the gaming industry have led to the fact that in 2016 will be released full-length animated film based on the most popular mobile game - «Angry Birds». It's hard to even imagine what will be the plot of the movie on a video game in which you need to shoot birds into pigs. However, among the participants of the project declared Peter Dinkleydzh who flops in movies has not been noticed yet.
The trend confirms the words of the head of Xbox: today the number of films based on video games is sufficiently large, and the world has seen adaptations of «Halo», «Prince of Persia», «Hitman» and many others. With the growing popularity of games and the increasing influence of the gaming industry such films will only bigger.
