Video Game Movies

Two of the biggest entertainment businesses in the industry, Movies and Video Games, have never really had a great relationship. There have been many attempts at blending the to things together. But very few have been received well. From critics or the public. If you ask, many will say Mortal Combat for the guilty pleasure factor or the Resident Evil franchise for the same reason.

But as video games become more story driven, more and more people want to see their favorite games brought to the big screen. And the expectations to be good are there as well. And though the past has not been good to us, there are a couple of upcoming projects that give me hope. If you luck at a list of video games being worked into movies, you will see a list full of titles in development. Most of those won't ever be made into movies. But there are two names that I look at that are coming out and give me a lot of hope: Warcraft and Assassin's Creed. 

Warcraft was set to come out December this year, but wisely moved out of the way of Star Wars and back to March 11, 2016. The film is directed to by Duncan Jones and set to star is Ben Foster, Toby Kebbell, Paula Patton, and many more. Oh, it also happens to be based on thee very popular game World of Warcraft. The plot revolves around the first encounters between the Orcs and the Humans.

A lot of the above paragraph might not mean much. A bunch of names and a small plot detail. And honestly, that is about as much as anybody knows about the movie. But I just have a great feeling about this. WOW has such a great lore and the opportunity to pick and chose certain story points can make one heck of a plot. And I feel great about the people involved. Ben Foster  is a solid actor capable of stealing any scene he is in. And if you have seen Jones's Moon, than you know he can direct. I just have a good feeling.

Assassin's Creed is a similar story. There is really not much known except for a release date, 12/21/16, and a star, Michael Fassbender. But there is just a feeling around this movie. The games have great stories and Fassbender is Oscar nominated actor.

If these two movies are not only good, but also do solid box office, I can pretty much promise that the long list of movies that will never be made will get much shorter.