14 DAY TRIAL // After what Modern Warfare managed to do in just five days, generate $550 million, that is, it's no wonder that Activision gathered all its people, put them in a room and told them to think of absolutely anything and then add “Modern Warfare” to its name. It seems like one of the things to expand the franchise will be a movie based on Infinity Ward's title, and the leak is brought to us once again by the public-friendly voice actors. After the man that gave life to Ghost in MW2 unveiled that a spin-off based on his character was just around the corner, the voice actor of Soap MacTavish announced the movie project.
"They were looking for a rough, Scottish actor in Hollywood, they probably couldn't get Gerard Butler, so they got the No. 2 Gerard Butler, me," Kevin McKidd said. "I had no idea [Modern Warfare] would be so huge, and now there are talks of a feature film." When asked if he would be willing to be part of the film, he jested and said that, "If the script is good, and Gerard isn't available, then absolutely." It seems that it really bothers him that he wasn't the first choice, with all this Gerard talk.
A game-inspired movie sounds like a pretty bad idea, especially considering our past experiences with the concept. Uwe Boll managed to cause emotional scarring and mental breakdowns with his monstrosities and, even if the Resident Evil series wasn't a nerve-wrecking experience, everything beyond the first film was just another letdown. The main problem with these types of movies is that they're seen as an easy buck for little effort. Directors hope to piggyback on the popularity of the movie and think that the title will be enough to bring people into the cinema.
As such, these films are almost always without a proper script, feel shallow and have no story of their own to tell. If at least they would just simply retell the game story, bit by bit, copying the cutscenes and in-game plot twists, they would still come out as better films, but these directors want to go all artistic on our mind and create something distinct. As almost all such movies have proven, the difference between a game and a movie is that the former was good and the latter was rubbish.