Steven Spielberg has a storied career spanning decades, meaning that he’s tackled just about every movie genre under the planet.
He’s tackled sci-fi epics including War of the Worlds and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
He broke hearts across the world with Schindler’s List and defined the modern blockbuster with Jaws (terrifying legions of filmgoers in the process.) But there’s one film genre that he hasn’t really tackled: the video game adaptation.
Though video games have had their ups and downs while being translated into film, the genre’s seen a recent resurgence with films including the Sonic The Hedgehog films, Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, and The Super Mario Bros.
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Spielberg actually had the chance to do his own video game adaptation with the Monkey Island series – specifically the third entry in the series, The Curse of Monkey Island.
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