Latest video game into a movie

[The Brain]

Originally posted by Contra
Actually a script for GTA is in the works.

The HOTD movie actually has NOTHING to do with the game, Except the name, and there are zombies.

It's a bunch of high school students trapped on an island with a haunted house that has zombies.

It's going to suck.

Why is it that when a movie is based on a book (either short story, novella, or full-length novel), they at least <i>try</i> to remain as faithful to the source material as possible... but when the source material is a video game or comic book, suddenly they take everything that draws fans to the game (or comic storyline), and toss it aside, saving only the basic characters and putting them in situations far removed from what we expect to see.

I mean, even though Peter Jackson had to take slight liberties with <i>Lord of the Rings</i>, he didn't do anything absurd, such as set the story in modern times. Perhaps only Shakespeare is the only literary author whose work gets so rudely converted.

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But, take a video game... and suddenly in the movie version, King Koopa is Dennis Hopper in a pinstriped suit.

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Or take a comic book... and suddenly Batgirl is <i>Alfred's niece</i>, and no longer Commissioner Gordon's daughter, because apparently the good commissioner, who was always a major character in the comic, is just a bit player in the films, so his family isn't up for consideration either. But Alfred, who was a minor player, needs a bump up, so we can generate artificial sympathy for him when they give him a near-fatal disease (and a cheap convenience for getting Alicia Silverstone into her Batgirl outfit).

On a side note, does anyone remember these costumes? I sure don't. They must've redesigned them before filming started.