14 DAY TRIAL // There are times when I wish that Hollywood would be a place full of happy, intelligent and sunny people that have no trouble coming with new ideas for movies. That would spare us the huge amount of sub par sequels that the executives of the movies studios tend to release year after year. And maybe such happy, sunny people would also spear us from the torture that is the game-movie tie-in.
Is there anyone that doesn't remember the horrors of the Wing Commander movie? Is there anyone that doesn't expect more horror in the future, in the high definition shape of the Max Payne movie for example? And there's the other side of the coin, the games that are developed from movie intellectual properties. Gore Verbinski has recently ranted about the quality of the Pirates of the Caribbean games, saying that they were little more than related merchandise and that they laked a creative core.
Now, there's confirmation that a Mad Max game is in the works and that its release will coincide with the launch of the new Mad Max movie. Confirmation came from none other than George Miller, director of the Mad Max films, who spoke to Newsweek and revealed that Cory Barlog, director of God of War II, will be taking charge of game production.
"The first one will be a Mad Max game," he declared and then revealed that he and Cory "hope that we overcome that problem of making bad films from good games or vice versa." I wish I had a penny for each and every time that someone thought they could fix that problem.
Apparently, the movie director is prepared to delay his movie in order to release the game and movie at the same time. "Normally what happens everyone's scrambling to finish a game so it can coincide with the release of the movie. In this case, because I've got another couple of movies to make, we can wait and do it properly. That's the theory."
No release date is available for the game or the movie. So, there's still time to hope that both products are great. Ok, good. Alright, alright, average.