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inFAMOUS Heading to Hollywood

July 29, 2009 in News comments 27

It seems like this is the latest trend in video games. First Uncharted, then Dead Space and now inFamous. While inFamous was good and popular, but is it big enough to become a movie? Well Sony thinks so as they payed Sheldon Turner, the screen writer for X-Men Origins Wolverine a hefty sum to adapt it into a movie.

Hollywood must be really running out of ideas.

Sony Pictures has pre-emptively picked up a pitch from Turner to adapt the Sucker Punch Prods. video game into a feature film. The deal is for seven figures.

The studio is working out a deal for rights to the game, which was published by sister company Sony Computer Entertainment.

Avi Arad and Ari Arad will produce. Sony executives Matt Tolmach and Jonathan Kadin are handling for the studio.
Sayyed via hollywoodreporter.com »
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  • 0
    HisServant77 Jul 29, 09
    Haha, Hollywood ran out of Ideas back in the 70s!


    That said, I seriously hope they make a good movie out of this one. Mostly because it involves a game I REALLY like now.
  • 0
    Anubis* Jul 29, 09
    Wasn't I promised a Halo movie a while back?

    Shit, I'd settle for a Fallout / Elder Scrolls movie... Please?
    • 0
      Sayyed Jul 29, 09
      a fallout movie would be awesome. There hasn't been a good post-apocalyptic movie in a long time.
    • 0
      Smoke Jul 29, 09
      The project with Peter Jackson, as well as the Video Game adaptation of it, was closed down; it's not happening in the near future. Kotaku had an article on it yesterday.

      Also, Linkin Park Fan, there's supposed to be a good post-apocalyptic movie coming out January.... I think it's called The Book of Eli or something like that. Denzel Washington, might be pretty good.
      • 1
        Sayyed Jul 29, 09
        Yeah for some reason Bistrict 9 emerged out of the ashes of the halo movie. I don't know why

        I looked up a trailer for that movie, does look good. But for some reason that whole time watching i thought vin diesal would have been a better choice as a character.
        • 1
          Daweii Jul 30, 09
          District 9 was made because Niel Blomkamp had made a short film years back called Alive in Jo'burg which was the base story for what is now District 9. Essentially when Halo fell through Niel Blomkamp was ready to pack up and leave when Peter Jackson thought that while they were together and had the team in place it would be a good time to make Niel Blomkamp's directorial debut. Alive in Jo'burg was their favourite short film of everything he had made so they wrote a feature length story and script and they made the movie.

          Because the Halo movie fell through so did the budget so District 9 is a sci-fi movie made on a tiny budget so many of the actors are friends Niel grew up with. There are more well known names in the cast of people that were behind the camera filming than there are actually on screen. The movie itself should be amazing as it is an original take on the sci-fi alien thing. Though as you may have noticed i know what too much on this movie and will shut up now haha.
        • 0
          Sayyed Jul 30, 09
          Nothing wrong with that, I am looking forward to D. 9 a lot.
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    Kave En Jul 29, 09
    Sony exclusives are better fit for movies IMO.
    • 1
      HisServant77 Jul 30, 09
      Why's that?
      • 1
        Slumpy monkey Jul 30, 09
        Because he's Kave En.
        • 0
          HisServant77 Jul 30, 09
          (I know, but honestly I was hoping for a better answer than that! One that's logical and unbiased?...)
        • 1
          Hideo1 Jul 30, 09
          Hope is something you shouldn't waste on people like him.
    • 0
      FinalFantasyFanaticc Jul 30, 09
      Damn i thought i told you to F off a while ago, your opinions don't matter on here because you like to lick the anal rim of Sony.
      • 0
        Hideo1 Jul 30, 09
        And I'm sure he really cares about what you think, because another person he can perceive as a threat telling him to F off makes a fat lot of difference.
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    Kave En Jul 30, 09
    Well, they just seem more fit for the big screen. Uncharted was designed in the way for a 'summer action blockbuster'. Metal Gear Solid is gonna be an awesome movie, too.

    A Gears Of War movie is being made, but I bet anything it's gonna feel generic. The story just isn't original enough.
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      Daweii Jul 30, 09
      That could also be twisted that Sony exclusives are better suited for the big screen as many Sony exclusives are short as hell. I mean Uncharted would work as the game is 4 hours long if you don't search for hidden secrets, Ratchet and Clank while slightly longer is full of filler that would be cut in a movie. Sony make amazing games but what makes them ideal candidates is how short many of them are.
      • 1
        Hideo1 Jul 31, 09
        And that's exactly what people want, to pay 6 odd pounds to watch a short film...

        Also, Uncharted is a summer action blockbuster but Gears is unoriginal and generic? Holy Irony Batman!
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    Bale Fire* Jul 30, 09
    Man, Resistance and Motorstorm will be next. Along with a LittleBigPlanet one
    • 0
      Sayyed Jul 30, 09
      Motorstorm and resistance can work. With motorstorm all you have to do is create a world focusing around the festival. But it will be much like need for speed but more off road.
  • 1
    Hideo1 Jul 30, 09
    The story to inFamous sucked. If they don't pull a Crank and just turn it into constant action (read: if they try to pull off a story with it) this film will fail miserably.

    Shame on you Sony, I had hoped you wouldn't milk this one. Bastards.
    • 0
      Kave En Jul 30, 09
      quote Hideo1
      The story to inFamous sucked. If they don't pull a Crank and just turn it into constant action (read: if they try to pull off a story with it) this film will fail miserably.

      Shame on you Sony, I had hoped you wouldn't milk this one. Bastards.
      Do you have any idea how hard it is to come up with an original superhero story?

      Shame on you for thinking the writer's job was easy
      • 1
        Hideo1 Jul 30, 09
        I didn't think the writer's job was easy. Where did I even say that? A writer's job is NEVER easy.

        I said the story sucked. The story doesn't need to be good in a game, as long as the gameplay is good, which was true in inFamous. However the story in a movie needs to be good (unless they make it just constant action) so stop being obnoxious.
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      HisServant77 Jul 30, 09
      I actually really liked the story of inFAMOUS. But I don't think the story is long enough for a full movie. Cut out the gameplay parts of the game and the story may end up 30-45 minutes I would think. Definitely not an hour or more.

      I say, wait until the sequel, maybe even the third installment if they do that, THEN make a movie to cover all of it.
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        Daweii Jul 30, 09
        45 minutes of story is far easier to stretch out than it is to condense say a 12 hour story.
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          HisServant77 Jul 30, 09
          Yeah but I don't think a trilogy in game form, if you take out all the gameplay and leave just the story, would end up 12 hours of story. Well, with some exceptions such as the metal gear storyline. But inFamous I don't think would have 12 hours of story in a trilogy. I think a trilogy would end up with . . . a slightly longer (3 hours at most) movie's worth of story.

          I mean, think about the story. Game stories are often really short. Take out the "Rush to this point" that would normally take you maybe anywhere from 2-15 minutes to play, is only a sentence-length "They went to this point." If you know what I mean?
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          Hideo1 Jul 31, 09
          Fair enough if you liked it, I just didn't. Too cliché.

          Daweii, take out the missions meaningless to the story put into the game for the sake of having things to do (like getting the tar thing from the water supply 'cause the reapers aren't happy with just killing everyone like normal bad guys) then I'd say it wouldn't even be 45 minutes worth of story.

          That said I believe your point is that it is good for the story to be short because it's easier to stretch out, yes? This is a fair point, it is easier to stretch out. However it would make for a shitter movie. It's easier to spread out a small bit of peanut butter and jelly but that doesn't mean it will be good and whilst condensing something like the mind *bleep* of MGS into a movie would be like emptying a full jar onto bread made for The Borrowers it would be much better if they did their jobs properly and made a good movie, instead of raping Cole before he's even grown pubes.
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    Ech0ez Jul 30, 09
    This could work tbh, although I imagine it'll wind up being more action based.

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