What Would A Jak And Daxter Movie Starring Toim Holland Look Like?

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While doing his press tour for Uncharted last month, Tom Holland was asked what video game franchise would he like to star in next if he was allowed to choose. His answer, while it would make for an unorthodox movie if it came to fruition, referenced a popular video game franchise that's been around for over two decades now: Jak and Daxter. «I would like to make a Jak and Daxter movie, and I would play Jak,» Holland explained. «But I would make it at A24, so it's really weird and, like, dark. I would do a really weird live-action version of Jak and Daxter.»

Adapting popular video game franchises into films is something Hollywood is more than familiar with. And yet, adapting them competently has proven to be a challenge for them time and time again. The prospect of adapting Jak and Daxter would be a little different compared to what we would usually get with live-action adaptations of video games.

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First off, there hasn't been a new installment for the franchise since 2009 with the release of Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier. Since it's been over a decade since any new material has shown itself, and the franchise has been around since 2001, a potential live-action adaptation would be regarded as nostalgic. Since Hollywood is exploiting nostalgia at maximum capacity nowadays, a Jak and Daxter film may just line up exactly with what audiences want to see.

But how they would approach adapting the story? When Hollywood has adapted popular video game franchises in the past, the usual complaints would be that it strayed too far from the source material, thus not understanding what the fans liked about it, or it's pretty much exactly like the source material without, thus