We Need Fewer Video Game Movies And More Movie Video Games
Turning video games into movies and TV shows is very much in vogue right now. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 just hit theaters, Mass Effect and Fallout are coming to Amazon Prime, and if all goes to plan, we'll know what Mario sounds like with Chris Pratt's voice before the end of 2022. Granted, some of those things are more appealing than others. The point is, video game adaptations are big business right now, and studios are jumping on the bandwagon while the getting is good.
An influx of as many of these projects as possible as soon as possible makes a lot of sense. For a very long time, turning games into movies simply didn't work. The original Mario movie, the attempt to bring Assassin's Creed to the big screen, even the Resident Evil movies, some of which I actually quite like, served as evidence that most of the time, games as movies don't work. Then suddenly, it did. Whether it was someone cracking the code or the world's taste collectively changing, projects like Detective Pikachu, the first Sonic movie, and even Uncharted have performed incredibly well.
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Simply put, there's a lot of money in this particular banana stand right now, and everyone in video games and Hollywood is intent on bleeding it dry and hoping it lasts for as long as possible. While I'd like to complain at this point, I find it difficult to hide my excitement for some of the irons currently in the fire. Pedro Pascal as Joel in HBO's The Last Of Us appears to be inspired casting, and I'm very excited to see what showrunners do with God Of War if the rumors Kratos is getting a TV show turn out to be true.
My only real hang-up right now is that the video game
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