Well, I like the SC games, and have played all of them. The subject matter fits right in with a movie too. I can't help but think buying the games at or near full price is not worth my while though, as once you play through a SC title, it seems to lose it's fun.
Unfortunately there's always the good-game-turned-to-crap likelyhood when they start making movies out of them. Why that is true of video games turned to movies and not comic book stories turned to movies is beyond me.
Might as well use this thread rather then create a whole new one
so we know Tom Hardy will be playing the role
Doug Liman (Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith and the upcoming Edge of tomorrow) is set to direct it
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/doug-liman-to-direct-splinter-cell-starring-tom-hardy
Originally posted by jaden101
I'm old school and I always lump metal gear, splinter cell and siphon filter in the same pile and I always thought splinter cell had the least potential, from a character pov, to be a good film. Solid Snake and Gabe Logan were just much more god damn badass fun than Sam Fisher.
Well they managed to do novels based on the Splinter Cell universe....not that i've read them
http://splintercell.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Novels
and they also included a Graphic Novel which came bundled with the recent game's 5th Freedom edition, So i can't see why a Movie can't work.
Originally posted by Kazenji
Well they managed to do novels based on the Splinter Cell universe....not that i've read themhttp://splintercell.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Novels
and they also included a Graphic Novel which came bundled with the recent game's 5th Freedom edition, So i can't see why a Movie can't work.
I'm not saying it wouldn't work. I'm simply saying I found him to be the least interesting of the 3 characters that came out of the PlayStation glut of 'stealth' action games back in the late 90's early 2000's. I actually think in terms of plot that SC would be more easily adapted into a film than the sometimes overly convoluted and existential gibberish you get in huge chunks of Metal Gear.
I also don't subscribe to the idea that movies based on films will be automatically bad. I think we've moved on from the bad old days of the Mario and Street Fighter movies. Granted most of them since then aren't exactly top drawer pieces of film making but they're heading in the right direction. Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Need for Speed, Tomb Raider, Max Payne, Prince of Persia, Hitman, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. They all had at least a modicum of entertainment value and are vast improvements on previous attempts. Although I'll admit to Mortal Kombat being a woeful film yet a guilty pleasure.
So I'm not going to write off this film on either of those points.
And besides, Tom Hardy is an excellent actor who rarely but occasionally picks bad scripts and rolls.
My fear is that this will be more like a Whitehouse Down kind of film than a Bourne Trilogy kind of film.
Apparently the insistence of huge creative control is what put a lot of directors off the Assassin's Creed film.
You can understand that frustration. Directors are equally passionate about their own creative process and ideas as the creators of the medium that inspires them. I think that's why in the case of many game to movie adaptations, the films have deliberately strayed pretty far from the source material. The Resident Evil games being the best example. It seems that the name is simply a brand. A tag to garner interest with no real connection to the source material.
I suppose it's a difficult balance to get right.
Doug Liman discusses his take on the film
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=101084