In case you haven't already heard, video game movies are good now. There's a long history of game adaptations for the big screen and other forms of media being pretty terrible. It felt like that unwritten rule was going to be taken to new heights when the first Sonic movie was announced. The reveal of what a CGI Sonic was going to look like in a live-action world was confirmation that yes, we were right to assume this will probably be another really bad video game movie.
Sega and Paramount, determined to buck the trend, took a step back, delayed the movie, and redesigned the Blue Blur. It worked. Sonic the Hedgehog was a success. A video game movie people enjoyed and one that performed well at the box office. Since then a slew of other games have been picked up for adaptations. Mortal Kombat got another movie, Chris Pratt will voice Mario later this year, and Amazon is turning Mass Effect and Fallout into TV shows.
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The latest game to be thrown onto the adaptation pile is It Takes Two. 2021's Game of the Year is reportedly being turned into a movie by the same team who made Sonic a silver screen success. Whether the co-op smash will be a good movie or not remains to be seen. It could well depend on who exactly is cast to play Cody, May, and the handful of other characters you meet in the title from Hazelight Studios. I'm sure everyone involved has some names in mind and may have even cast them already, but if they haven't gone with the names below, then they simply haven't put as much thought into it as I have.
Whether you got to be May or you were stuck with Cody when you buddied up with someone to play It Takes Two for the first time, the mom in this story is
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