14 DAY TRIAL // Recently the people at 343 Industries have announced that they are still thinking about creating a Halo movie, saying that there's no rush to create it but that the project is defintiely still alive.
The team is also actively looking at possibilities to bring the franchise to television is a movie project does not materialize.
This comes a few days after Valve, after saying that it was preparing three surprises for gamers in the next twelve months, talked about how they would be interested in creating a Half Life movie as long as the team which created the game could be driving the creative process.
And, of course, there's the BioShock movie project, which has been talked about ever since the first movie in the series was launched and which got a new boost now from creator Ken Levine, who said that the project is still looking for funding but will likely get off the ground in the coming years.
There are also rumors about a movie linked to Gears of War, the Epic Games franchise, and we already know we are going to get another Resident Evil flick in the near future.
It seems that the movie industry has forgotten the last round of video game linked failures (does anybody even remember Doom anymore) and is so critically lacking any new ideas of its own that it's content to raid and pillage another industry even though the kind of stories and universes video games create can hardly be condensed into a few hours of film.
BioShock might make a good movie but it will surely disappoint gamers who went to Rapture for two times now and experienced the audio logs, the combat with Big Daddies, the terrors of the Big Sister and the complex interactions that are possible with the Little Sisters.
The same can be said of other potential projects: however well they translate the soul of the game experience they won't offer enough for gamers and will probably offer too much for non gamers.
And that's just a recipe to push video games even more away from the mainstream, ironically, by trying to bring the industry towards it.