Which Play Station game should be turned into a film?
just one more question… the team debate this month’s burning issue
JASON RUBIN, THE MAN BEHIND THE MAGIC, WOULD GET HIS OWN BIOPIC IN MY DREAM MOVIE.
While I’d love to see a Crash Bandicoot liveaction trilogy, I’ll dodge the question and pitch a biopic of former Naughty Dog co-founder Jason Rubin. I met Rubin in 2003: he talked a lot about juice and pumping iron, suggesting there’s Mark Wahlberg levels of Hollywood depth to the man who gave us Crash Bandicoot and Jack & Daxter, plus he was there at THQ’s end. It’s a Social Network for us gamers: a story of naïve college days full of spotty-faced, ambition before the reality of Big Business knocked on the door. You’ll cry, you’ll laugh, you’ll wish they’d made that Crash Bandicoot movie.
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU’RE STILL HOLDING OUT HOPE FOR A 2D ANIMATED RAPPING DOG MOVIE? YOU GOTTA BELIEVE!
Bearing in mind how well Roger Rabbit worked back in the day, a Parappa The Rapper film along the same lines would make for an entertaining movie. Paper-thin rapping canine enters real world, complete with onionheaded dojo master Chop Chop Master Onion, moose-faced driving instructor Mooselini, and sunflower-faced girlfriend Sunny Funny. Rapping rivals react, and chaos ensues. The theme tune would obviously have to be Parappa having a rap showdown with Snoop Dogg. How great would that be?! It would be anything but shitsu.
BLOODBORNE’S AMBIGUITY COULD BE ITS SAVING GRACE – THAT AND MASSIVE MONSTER FIGHTS.
With a Life Is Strange TV series somewhere off on the horizon, Yakuza already existing as a handful of films, and the Persona 5 anime fast approaching to take my heart all over again, I’m left with one clear choice: Bloodborne. It’s fair to say that one 90- to 130-minute outing is nowhere near enough to encapsulate its intricate lore, but this ambiguity could become a film adaptation’s secret weapon. All I’m looking for really is a fight that matches any of the early Great Ones’ level of spectacle – or at least another slice of that delicious atmosphere to sink my teeth into.
IT’S AN OLDIE, BUT I’D LOVE TO SEE GTA: VICE CITY MADE INTO A MOVIE.
A lot of the games I love could be turned into movies – on the whole, I play for the stories rather than the challenges – but I’ve already seen the endings of those. So I’d like to see a movie made from a game I never had the nerve to try playing when it released – Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The budget for vehicles would probably outstrip the fees of the cast, and the scriptwriters would have some work on their hands deciding which side-missions to include and which to strip away, but we know one thing they can miss out – NO GIANT SHARK. And at least the soundtrack’s already sorted.