The 6 games Hollywood must turn into movies after Sonic 2 – Reader’s Feature

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A reader makes some predictions about what franchises will try and cash in on Sonic’s cinematic success, including Crash Bandicoot and Kirby.

Hollywood has been trying to make video game movies a thing for almost 30 years now but if you’d told anyone ahead of time that it would be Sonic the Hedgehog that finally made the idea work, I don’t think they’d ever have believed you. Heck, I don’t believe it and I’ve seen the sales figures (and the movie).

The films aren’t terrible and the second one does make a surprising effort to be more like the game, but the most obvious takeaway from the success is that… everyone’s going to copy it now.

Hollywood likes to jump on a bandwagon even more than the games industry does and while I expect we’ll see a general increase in video game movies, especially as Uncarted did okay too, I think it’s obvious that mascot platformers and other games with cute heroes are going to be pushed to the front of the queue.

The following are the games I would bet good money that Hollywood is sniffing around right now. Whether there’ll ever make decent movies is another thing entirely but since there’s no way that Sonic should have worked I don’t think we can rule any of them out, especially as half of them were trying to copy Sonic games in the first place anyway.

The most obvious one and if this isn’t already in intense negotiations at Activision (now Microsoft?) then a lot of people are not doing their jobs right. The set-up is very similar to Sonic but with the benefit that it’s not quite as abstract and weird, so you can just have the Bandicoots be on a secret island or something and that’s all you really need. Make it so Crash is a loveable fish out of water, that just wants to help his