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Video Game Examiner came up with a great list of some officially announced, unofficially announced and ‘other’ video- game-to-film adaptations.  Some are just absurd as the games themselves weren’t all that successful.  Just thought I’d list a few notable ones here (some excerpts are taken from the Video Game Examiner site):

Mortal Kombat (2010) – Yes, it’s yet another Mortal Kombat movie. Although the film hasn’t been cast, it’s rumored that Christopher Lambert will play as Raiden again. I think he may a bit too old nowadays. The screenplay is being written by Sean Catherine Derek who has written for animated shows like Spider-Man, Batman, and The Smurfs! The film is in pre-production.

I actually liked the original Mortal Kombat film (call me Krazy) but for what it was it was a good popcorn flick.  Not sure how they could possibly ressurect it though.

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Driver (2010) – Driver, based on the Atari game, is currently on hold. Last we heard, the film was to be written and directed by Roger Avary who wrote and directed Killing Zoe, wrote Beowulf, Silent Hill and helped out Quentin Tarantino on Reservoir Dogs, True Romance and Pulp Fiction.

Absolutely loved this game when it came out.  This was certainly a game that re-invented a genre, before GTA 3 I might add!  Unfortunately its a case of little to no substance when it comes to film standards and thats probably why its on hold.  Anyone say Jason Statham?

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Halo (2009) – There’s been a bit of drama behind this one. Alex Garland (28 Days Later) wrote a script, it was rewritten by author D.B. Weiss and Josh Olson (A History of Violence). The film is supposed to be executive produced by Peter Jackson with Neill Blomkamp, a short film director, to direct. Blomkamp said the film is dead, Jackson said it’s going to happen. Who knows when?

Well from what live footage that has already been thrown out there regarding Halo, this could promise to be something decent.  I think its just all about the timing on this one.  Too many recent flops could have pushed it back until the focus is shifted away.

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Warcraft (2009)/World of Warcraft (2011) – It looks there are two movies in the works based off of the Warcraft universe. The first is simply called Warcraft with a screenplay written by Chris Metzen who write the scripts for the Warcraft video games plus Diablo and Starcraft. No casting or director has been announced. There is another film in the IMDB database called World of Warcraft, but there’s no information available on that one.

WTF?  No…I’m not going to bother.  Never cared for the life sucking game…not going to care for a film.  Do you think they’ll charge a subscription fee for every 10 mins of viewing time?  Ok sorry that was a low blow.

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Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (2010) – All we have here is an announcement of game creator Charles Cecil trying to bring the Broken Sword series to the silver screen. There are four games and he’s hoping for four films, starting with the first game, The Shadow of the Templars. No casting or director has been announced.

Another game I really loved playing!  In fact I think they could get a pretty decent story out of this one but I’m not sure four films is a good idea.  Lets stick with getting ONE right.

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Earthworm Jim (2010) – Earthworm Jim was a classic character on the Nintendo systems and its creator Douglas TenNapel is looking to bring him to the big screen. TenNapel is directing and most likely writing the film and since his direction experience is in animation, we guess we can expect the film to be animated?

This one is pure hilarity.  If this gets made I’ll watch it even if its bad.  Loved the games, loved the cartoon…bring it on Earthworm Jim!!  I’m hyped!

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Gears of War (2010) – Creator Cliff Bleszenski is executive producing with Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) attached to direct and Chris Morgan (Wanted, Cellular) penning the script. Bleszinki guarantees that he will make “a video game movie that doesn’t suck.”

Yeah this was pretty much a certainty from the time the first ‘Mad World’ adverts were shown in cinemas…

more on Video Game Examiner’s site.

So here’s hoping that ONE of these films will break the mold but I’m not sure it will be anytime soon.  There’s a crap load of bad on that list and it will truly have to get the right combination of talent to get everyone’s interests turned towards a geek culture medium thats not fully embraced by the public yet.

- Jason