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Sony Plans Shadow Of The Colossus Film
by David Jenkins [Console/PC]
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April 8, 2009
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Sony’s Columbia Pictures is planning to create a Hollywood adaptation of Sony Computer Entertainment’s critically acclaimed PlayStation 2 title Shadow Of The Colossus.
Information that first surfaced at the Hollywood Reporter says the film will be produced by Kevin Misher (The Interpreter, Public Enemies), with a script written by Justin Marks.
Marks’ previous work includes the widely-panned Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and a forthcoming movie based on Japanese anime Voltron.
As The Cut Scene comments, the game itself is not an obvious candidate for cinematic adaptation. It features few speaking parts, and despite positive reviews was only a minor hit on its original release in 2005. The game’s story is largely opaque until the very end of the game, when its connection to the previous ICO is made clear.
The site reports that Marks will be fleshing out "some of the characters who appear only momentarily in the game", presumably referring to the character Lord Emon who appears at the game’s beginning and end.
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First, the experience of playing the game far exceeds the experience of watching any movie.
It's kind of like if they took the novel War and Peace, and decided to turn it into what you see on the back of a DVD case.
Second, the writing in the Chun-Li movie was just plain terrible. For a movie based on a fighting game, it served it's purpose, as I know nobody who was expecting great writing from that film. SoC is a very different game than SF. While SF is very much at the top of it's league, SoC is just one of those special titles that rises above the pack, as far as artistic integrity goes. SoC deserves to be something better than a poorly written movie, that if turns out to be a flop, could reflect poorly on the game.
That movie had so much potential, however, it was like watching a fish being tortured out of water.
I for one will not be looking for to this movie, but I would like to play the game.
Also I wonder...was the mention to Shadow of Colossus's ending and the connection to ICO absolutely necessary to make this news story complete? Surely it doesn't add any value to the news story apart from spoiling it for people.
This is an obvious disaster. I await to hear that its being directed by Paul Anderson. Hopefully this doesn't get past preproduction.
This can't be made into a film without totally changing the story. It would be SOC in name only.
This is one of the greatest games ever made and if they are planning on making it a movie at least give it to great filmmakers (Peter Jackson and his team of scriptwriters for The Lord of the Rings).
It would be better that the money invested into producing the film was given to Team Ico to develop more games.
Sony, you gluttonous, greedy idiot.
If you're going to make a movie based on a popular game or other IP, you should be inclined to do a good job because you paid for the rights to make the movie and because the existing fan base is the financial incentive to have bought the rights in the first place.
We talked about this this week on the games-and-industry podcast Visiting The Village
In my opinion any kind of film adaptation of SOTC that looks to be successful AND have the same touching feel to it is if it were made into a 2-D anime. (*nudges Hayao Miyazaki* :P)
The actual Shadow of the Colossus game can hardly be called a game for most of its fans. (to those of you guys that are too tough for feelings, you may want to stop reading this now) It's more of an experience and an art form than a video game, and that's something not easily accomplished given that.....its a video game and they only had a ps2's engine to work with at the time.