Studios are keener than ever to take a cut from this multibillion-dollar industry – but even the best games rarely inspire good filmsAs recent efforts – Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed, Warcraft – continue to show, video games rarely make great movies.
If ever.
Dwayne Johnson’s new epic Rampage might change all this, just as giant, genetically modified wolves might fly, but the source material was hardly that compelling to start with, partly because it was already a mish-mash of movie tropes.
In the original Rampage arcade game, you could be King Kong, Godzilla or a werewolf and you basically had to re-enact a city-trashing scene out of a monster movie.
Now, see the movie of the game of the movie!To turn it around, however, games already have taken over the movies.
Look at Johnson’s last mega-hit, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.
It wasn’t based on an existing
Read full article
Leave a Reply