Against all odds, it seems like is finally gettingꦯ the movie adaptation that was first greenlit a decade ago. While Paul Wernick and Rhett Rheese, the writers of Zombiela🎃nd and the Deadpool movies, were originally commissioned to write a script for the film in 2014, a decade of development hell stalled the project, and now it appears to be making a comeback.
According to , French genre director Mathieu Turi will be directing from an original screenplay written by Christie LeBlanc, best known for Netflix’s Oxygen. Sophie Wilde, who was critically lauded for her lead performance i𝄹n last year’s A24 horror banger Talk To Me, is in talks to star. The film is supported by New Regenꦰcy, who have produced a lot of excellent films like 12 Years a Slave, The Big Short, and Birdman, as well as the 2016 Assassin’s Creed movie, which was not excellent.
Turi is also working on a television adaptation of A Plague🐈 Tale: Innocence, which I did not know was in the works until I started wri🔜ting this.
It’s not surprising that this project is being revived, even though it’s been in the trenches for the better part of a decade. Craig Mazin very annoyingly said that HBO’s The Last of Us would “break the curse of bad video g💦ame adaptations” at the end of 2022, and while many will argue that the ‘cur⛄se’ was broken long before that, we do seem to be getting an influx of video game adaptations as🍎 ꧑the superhero movie starts to fall out of trend.
It pains me to say this, but Mazin was right – The Last of Us is the best video game ad🅺aptation we’ve seen so far.
I am hesitant to say that the success of adaptations like The Last of Us and The Super Mario Bros. Movie are driving studios to push for more adaptations, because this trend has been on the uptick for years. While there are 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a lot of video game adaptations out right now (Halo, Borderlands, Twisted Metal, Gran Turismo), and even more announced (Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding, Alan Wake, Sifu, Until Dawn), a lot of these were put in motion before 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:those success stories ever broke ground.
But the fact remains that we’re seeing a lot more media based on video games, and not all of those games should be adapted. Some games are better suited to ad🌄aptations than others. For example, since it was already made and marketed as a ‘cinematic’ video game, The Last of ✨Us made a lot of sense as an adaptation. Watch Dogs, unfortunately, does not.
Obviously, I’m not very optimistic. For one, Ubisoft doesn’t have a great track record with its movies. Of all the films in its slate, only two have come out, one of which was Assassin’s Creed. The other, Werewolves Within, was a critical hit but a commercial flop. Meanwhile, adaptations based on Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell (starring Tom Hardy), Tom Clancy’s The Divi𓆏sion (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain), and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon (casting yet to be announced) have all gone nowhere. It’s also announced several live-action and animated adaptations, very few of which have ever been released. Its best known success, Mythic Quest, was a TV show and wasn’t based on Ubisoft IP. It’s hard to speak to the likelihood of the film coming out at all.
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The idea was pitched ten years ago. Watch Dogs hasn’t been relevant for a long time. The latest game in the series was released in 2020 and it was just fine, but I wouldn’t say the series as a whole has had that much cultural impact, nor is it very interesting. Watch Dogs doesn’t follow a single character throughout the series, and every game is set in a different dystopian city. That makes it easier to create new stories within the game’s universe, but also means the adaptation would be reliant on the strength of that universe. A♐nd Watch Dogs does not have a compelling setting.
The thing about Watch Dogs is that the stealth gameplay and gadgets are much more interesting than the setting and characters, and movies famously do not have gameplay. Compare this potential adaptation to, let’s say, Borderlands. The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:B🥀orderlands trailer has very serious flaws, but at least Borderlands has a ಌunique, distinctive setting and identity. Watch Dogs is far more generic, with unmemorable characters and rote storytelling. Really, you could slap the same title onto any dystopian tech-focused thriller and rename the organisations involved. 𒊎You’d still get a believable Watch Dogs film. I love a movie about defying The Man as much as anyone, but Watch Dogs is simply not that interesting.
I liked Sophie Wilde in Talk To Me, and I hope she secures her bag with a potential lead role, but I just can’t imagine that 💛Watch Dogs will be very good because there’s nothing unique about it. It really makes you think – maybe the video game adaptation curse isn’t a curse at all, it’s just the result of studios trying to turn mid games into blockbuste🌟r franchises.
