Jack Black’s Hope for a Red Dead Redemption Movie Adaptation
fortressofsolitude.co.zaJack Black has become a much more frequent face as of late. Fans have seen him start his own gaming channel, make a guest appearance in the most recent episode of The Mandalorian and now voice Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. During an interview with BBC about his performance as the fire-breathing, ballad-singing Koopa King, Jack Black was speaking about recent video game adaptations and brought up a game he’d like to see adapted that might do better than HBO’s The Last of Us: Red Dead Redemption.
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While promoting The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Black said: “In the future, film and television are going to keep going towards using stories told in video games, because that market seems to be growing and growing exponentially.”
“The TV and film industries seem to be seeing a little bit of shrinkage. It will be interesting to see what happens to the entertainment industry over the next 20 to 30 years but I think we will be seeing more storytelling from the gaming universe.”
He went on to say that The Last of Us has proved that video game adaptations can work far better than might have previously been expected: “I’m a fan of adaptations when done right. The Last of Us was fantastic and what’s crazy is how loyal it is to the original source material. It’s basically all from the game with just a couple of tweaks. It’s going to win all the awards.”
“They used the video game almost like a storyboard and I was like, ‘Whoa, this looks just the same.’ And there are some great games that have yet to be explored in television or film. Maybe there’s going to be a Red Dead Redemption movie? There should be, because I think that [has] has as good or [an] even better story than The Last of Us.”
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