12 Dream Video Game Movies and TV Shows

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It’s well documented that the history of the video game movie adaptation has been a mixed one, to say the least. But, with recent hits such as Netflix’s Arcane and Castlevania series, as well as a promising(?) looking Super Mario movie on the horizon, we may have finally turned a corner.

With a brighter future ahead of us, I’ve decided to attach directors to 12 dream video game movies and TV shows, that I think Hollywood would be frankly foolish to pass on. Sure, most of these games would probably benefit from being left exactly as that, but let’s have a bit of fun, shall we?

James Cameron’s Titanfall 2

Let’s start big. And blockbusters don’t get much bigger than when Terminator, Aliens, and Titanic director James Cameron is at the helm. Arguably the best first-person shooter campaign ever created, Titanfall 2 would be an incredible sight to see in his hands - a time-travel subplot, one man’s heartbreaking relationship to a sentient AI, a shit ton of mechs - it has all the hallmarks of a Cameron action movie. We’d need him to hurry up and finish his 17 Avatar movies first, but I reckon it would be well worth the wait.

Kathryn Bigelow’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Director of both The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow is the master of the modern war movie. Put the already cinematic story of 2007’s Modern Warfare in her hands and we could be looking at something special. She’s well-versed in stories of the darker, more shrouded side of war seen beyond the frontlines and ones where governments don’t necessarily have their people’s best interests at heart. All Ghillied Up, the shooter’s standout mission, contains all the trademark tension of a Bigelow action sequence, and something I’d love to see on the big