Shadow of the Colossus

[ShockWave]

Yes, this is in the right forum. There are plans for a film adaptation of one of the best video games of the past decade, and I am seriously worried about it.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58092

The script is being written by Justin Marks, who we all know for his tremendously fantastic work with the recent Dragonball movie. Scary, right?

They had better not fuck this up.

Any thoughts? I almost feel that this should strictly remain a videogame. It's too good to ruin.

[SODA]

I think it will suck.

[Pachycephelosaurus]

The possibility of this being anything but disappointing is miniscule.

[DoctorButt]

That's one of my favorite games, and I just know they're going to fuck it up. I'm still goint to watch it and then complain soon after.

[Astronaut]

In my head I can imagine it being epic. But as history has shown us, the people who know the most about it, usually aren't making the movie.

[Savaril]

It'll definitely suck. He'll probably make the main character an angsty teenager.

[Dakotaftw]

I am not expecting a really good movie from this.

[I_Smell]

I hope it's a buddy cop movie where Shadow is a loose cannon who doesn't play by the rules and Collossus is a gentle giant who just needs someone to love him for who he is. When they're assigned to the same case, all hell breaks loose in a hillarious action-packed adventure you won't soon forget. This unlikely odd couple have their share of disputes, but in the end they learn to work together and form the kind of freindship that lasts a lifetime.

Really though I doubt it's ever gonna happen.

[El Zilcho]

The special effects will probably be the only decent thing about this movie.

[Kritza]

Justin Marks has gone too far this time... Its bad enough he's ruined DBZ but Shadow of the Colossus? C'mon now, don't ruin it.

[Raxo]

Without a shadow of a doubt this will suck.

[SlothMan]

This movie is going to be one colossal fuck up.

Actually I havn't played the game because I've never even seen it for sale in this uncultured fuck of a country. But yeah video game to movie or vise versa never works out well ever.

[Kritza]

Just Ebay it, you can get it really cheap. Thats how I get games that I can't find in stores.

[Infammo]

I love the game, but I can't imagine that movie not sucking.

[SODA]

It will be pretty hard to make a movie true to the game considering the lack of dialogue.

[phonetics]

I wonder if the music will even be similar to the game's soundtrack. SoC had some of the most memorable video game music in the past 10 years. It's part of what made the game so great.

[BreakTheWalls]

This has potential to be a heart-wrenching tale of love and the sacrifices people would be willing to make. But they'll more than likely just stray away from the original material and give Wanda a gun or something.

"Yo fool go kill sum colossi an' shit if you want your hoe back."

[I_Smell]

Instead of fighting 16 Collossi, there's a blacklist of 16 of LA's best underground street racers, but Shadow's been out o the game for years. Will he risk it all in a pink-slip race against Collossus and win back his girl? Or will he get so caught up in the fast lane that he himself becomes the monster?
SHADOW OF THE COLLOSSSUS: STREETS OF L.A.
CINEMAS EVERYWHERE 2010

[lolguy]

It's going to suck...a lot.

[Rob]

I was telling a friend this, but for any Shadow of the Colossus movie to be good or true to the game's atmosphere it'd have to have an effects budget in the hundreds of millions, and nobody is ever going to spend that much on a video game movie.

It's going to suck.

[bono]

Have to agree with Rob on this one, the only alternative is to go the full animation route or use fucking puppets. They are going to ruin a brilliant concept by trying to make a quick buck off the franchise. How the hell could they get their hands o the rights to a movie? What dumbass gave them the rights? As for the dialogue, maybe it will be a "thought monologue" in which he walks around collecting lizard tails and reminiscing about his troubled childhood and crying over his dead girlfriend whilst he battles with his inner demons which are pushing him towards necrophilia.

[DubiousCow]

A grizzled sergeant named Shadow is sent in with his squad of misfits to take down Collossus, a rogue mercenary band in Iraq. Along the way, he saves an Iraqi princess and finds love in the bitter territory of war. Surrounded by hate, will sergeant Shadow and his troop of lovable yet deadly fighters be able to conquer war or will they becomes former shadows of themselves as their emotions are one by one destroyed in conflict?

[Trashcat]

A grizzled sergeant named Shadow is sent in with his squad of misfits to take down Collossus, a rogue mercenary band in Iraq. Along the way, he saves an Iraqi princess and finds love in the bitter territory of war. Surrounded by hate, will sergeant Shadow and his troop of lovable yet deadly fighters be able to conquer war or will they becomes former shadows of themselves as their emotions are one by one destroyed in conflict?

Please leave it to I_Smell.

[DubiousCow]

I tried so hard, though.

[bono]

That sounded like the makings of a pretty good porn movie...

[arborphiliac]

So when do you think an original movie will come out? Just about everything lately has been shitty adaptations of previously great works like video games and tv shows, and need I mention spoof movies?

[CnGy]

I was telling a friend this, but for any Shadow of the Colossus movie to be good or true to the game's atmosphere it'd have to have an effects budget in the hundreds of millions, and nobody is ever going to spend that much on a video game movie.

It's going to suck.

I think the special effects will be fine. The shit is getting way cheaper these days. I mean I agree for this it will be impossible to get the scale really, if they're doing live action.

I never got that game, I mean I do. It's like, you're not really fighting the colossus right? You're really just climbing on them? It's more about timing than actual bad ass combat skills?

I think if the movie focused on that timing aspect, patterns, etc, it could be cool.

[DoctorButt]

Who do you think will play Wanderer? If they do make it, it's going to be extremeley differnt from the game. I mean there is no dialog or anything.

[CnGy]

I hope it will all be cheesy philosophy about how "life is big."

[Allen]

I don't know what you guys are talking about with the over-inflated special-effects budget. There's this marvelous little technique called "green screen". You've probably heard of it. Yeah, it pretty much makes special effects extremely cheap (in comparison, anyway), especially if you shoot the entire movie with it. It think green screen would be the way to go if they are to do this movie.

Then again, I know very little about the game, so green screen or no, it still might be a very shitty movie, as with most video game-to-movie adaptations.

[SlothMan]

But if I'm not mistaken, Shadow of the Colossus is more of a cult classic than a game that actually sold really well, which is what would usually inspire the video game to movie adaptation. So I don't know, maybe it could be something different.

[Rob]

I don't know what you guys are talking about with the over-inflated special-effects budget. There's this marvelous little technique called "green screen". You've probably heard of it. Yeah, it pretty much makes special effects extremely cheap (in comparison, anyway), especially if you shoot the entire movie with it. It think green screen would be the way to go if they are to do this movie.

Then again, I know very little about the game, so green screen or no, it still might be a very shitty movie, as with most video game-to-movie adaptations.

Tell me more about film concepts you barely understand.

[CnGy]

Liek I really don't understand how this could even be a fucking movie at all. All the game was was climbing up giant things.

edit: I do understand - a movie is limitless, you make it your own, you can take a fucking pebble on the beach and make a fucking movie out of it. Still, I don't see the point in reaching to other sources for inspiration. When did everyone in this industry get so fucking lazy?

[ShockWave]

Could be around the time they realized the film industry is a business. :(

[SODA]

I don't know what you guys are talking about with the over-inflated special-effects budget. There's this marvelous little technique called "green screen". You've probably heard of it. Yeah, it pretty much makes special effects extremely cheap (in comparison, anyway), especially if you shoot the entire movie with it. It think green screen would be the way to go if they are to do this movie.

Then again, I know very little about the game, so green screen or no, it still might be a very shitty movie, as with most video game-to-movie adaptations.

Special effects cost money.

[CnGy]

Could be around the time they realized the film industry is a business. :(

And from a business perspective it is also more sensible to make good movies? I know shit movies make money, but a good movie that applies to the shit audience makes more. (think like titanic)

[I_Smell]

I don't know what you guys are talking about with the over-inflated special-effects budget. There's this marvelous little technique called "green screen". You've probably heard of it. Yeah, it pretty much makes special effects extremely cheap (in comparison, anyway), especially if you shoot the entire movie with it. It think green screen would be the way to go if they are to do this movie.

I was in a lecture recently that said the lion from the Chronicles of Narnia took about 3 years to make. You can't just say don't worry guys I've got a green screen it'll be fine.

[SODA]

I don't think you understand I_smell, make it ALL green screen.

[CnGy]

Should've just used Liam Neeson in a lion costume, make everything else around him green screen. Then you wouldn't notice it's just him in a costume. He's such a good actor. He could do lion.

[Allen]

Tell me more about film concepts you barely understand.

Look, I've seen more DVD special features than anyone on this forum. It's not that difficult of a concept. You shoot the whole fucking think in green screen, add in all the environments digitally, and you've got a special effects laden movie at a reasonable cost. I'm sure you know that's how they shot Sin City and 300 on budgets of $40 million and $60 million respectively. From what I know about the game, it would cost a bit more to make this movie than those, but a hell of a lot less than if they shot the thing on location and then tried to render all of this complex shit into real environments.

Special effects cost money.

I didn't say it would be free.

I was in a lecture recently that said the lion from the Chronicles of Narnia took about 3 years to make. You can't just say don't worry guys I've got a green screen it'll be fine.

Again, not saying that they can make this fucking movie for free. But if you do the entire fucking thing in green screen, it's a lot fucking cheaper. It still takes time and money to have artists render the special effects, but it's not nearly as costly as shooting it on location and then rendering big fake things into that footage.

[Rob]

Green screening (originally blue screening) has been around since the 1930s. It doesn't make special effects cheaper, it makes them possible.

[Allen]

Rob, I'm talking about shooting the whole fucking thing in green screen makes it cheaper to make a special effects laden film. It wouldn't look very realistic, but you'd probably have to suspend disbelief a good bit for a film like this anyway.

Also, thanks for the history lesson. But again, I've watched way more DVD special features and read more Wikipedia than just about anyone.

[El Zilcho]

I know Rob, JESUS. These are special features we're talking about here. They probably kick way more ass than any college class you could have taken amirite?

[SODA]

I think they should do the whole film of just one big green screen and then they can just do it all with computers and make it amazing and cheap.

[I_Smell]

They should do it old-school King Kong vs the T-rex stop-motion obviously.

[CnGy]

Rob, I'm talking about shooting the whole fucking thing in green screen makes it cheaper

Again I'm with rob's point here. It wouldn't be cheaper, it would be possible. Hence yes, cheaper is a factor of raising possibilities.

Congratulations you're both half-right.

[Allen]

Maybe it's my lack of knowledge in the content of the game, but I just don't see how this could be much more expensive to shoot all green screen than Sin City or 300.

What exactly would have to be incorporated into a movie adaptation of the game?

[SODA]

Huge intricate 3D models of every colossus.

[Allen]

Okay, yeah. Just looked into the game, really.

If they go for an ultra-realistic look, it would be very expensive, even entirely on green screen. However, if they choose to go with something more stylized that doesn't necessarily require extreme attention to detail, it can be pulled off for much cheaper.

[spacemonkey187]

Okay, yeah. Just looked into the game, really.

If they go for an ultra-realistic look, it would be very expensive, even entirely on green screen. However, if they choose to go with something more stylized that doesn't necessarily require extreme attention to detail, it can be pulled off for much cheaper.

They probaby won't bother, it's called the movie business after all. Really not looking forward to this. One of the best games of all time reduced to 90 minutes won't work.

[Aether]

Justin Marks is going to destroy one of my favorite video games. =* (