14 DAY TRIAL // Video games are slowly but surely becoming one of the most popular forms of entertainment available for a lot of people. Not only do they place the action in the hands of the player, but they also allow creative freedom for developers and writers, which have recently praised them for such things.
Their popularity also made them a prime target for Hollywood directors looking to turn them into movies and guarantee a profit just because there is a loyal fan base that would gladly pay for anything even remotely related to their favorite video games. As such, we've seen a lot of game-based movies but sadly a lot of them disappointed fans, though not companies, which made a nice profit from handing the rights to the game franchises to movie companies.
One such corporation is Capcom, which hasn't been shy to give the rights to extremely popular series like Street Fighter or Resident Evil to movie makers, just so they would bend the whole idea behind the games to satisfy their point of view, as it happened with the latest Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li title, which was a flop at the box office.
But it now seems that the company is in talks with the director of cinematics for Resident Evil 5 in order to make another movie based on one of its franchises. Jim Sonzero, the man who was responsible for all the cut scenes in the zombie survival shooter, revealed this to MTV Multiplayer, but emphasized that he was still in talks with the Japanese company about the project.
Despite the fact that the work he has done with Resident Evil 5 was the first interaction between him and the video game industry, he plans to continue doing work for companies that are active in the field: “I am involved in motion-capture projects that are bringing this technology to advertisers. But I am definitely very interested in taking cinematics to a whole new level and keep moving in this direction.”
We'll just have to wait and see whether or not this project will take shape or what franchise will get the movie treatment. Until then, game-based movies still bear a bad reputation.