Good:
It sounds like Christophe Gans is going to direct a film version of Onimusha next. No doubt this will be slammed by critics but loved by fans, in much the same way as Silent Hill. I have high hopes for this; Onimusha features similarly demonic elements, and given the excellent job Gans did on Silent Hill, he should capture the atmosphere of the games nicely. It'll be interesting to see if the film is set in the past, or present, or both (as one of the more recent games did). It'll also be interesting to see if Jean Reno comes on board…
Bad:
Wes Craven and son are writing the sequel to The Hills Have Eyes. Didn't Wes already do that? It sounds like a rush job; the studio want to release the sequel on the same day as the original came out, but one year later. They describe some nonsense about the national guard performing a training exercise around the mines featured in the first film, and then tangling with the mutant miners from the first film. But…didn't they already kill them all off? There'll certainly be no room for Billy Drago in the sequel. Aja isn't interested in directing (perhaps because it sounds rubbish?) so Craven has lined up Michael J. Bassett (Deathwatch) instead.
Judging by the anount of postive buzz Bassett’s as yet unreleased Wilderness is picking up from festivals, this may not be quite so bad. Especially if you completely ignore the title and just view it as a mutant cannibal miners attack National Guard movie. Thinking about it, it could be the first mutant cannibal miners attack National Guard movie ever. The start of a whole new horror sub-genre. Or it may spawn a Sky pseudo-documentary series “When Mutant Cannibal Miners Attack”. Who knows….maybe great things will come.
Posted by Tony Woolstencroft | 27. Apr, 2006, 4:20 pmONIMUSHA MOVIE TALK,PLUS OTHER VIDEO GAME MOVIES.
Onimusha is going to the big screen and it will not follow the story from Onimusha 3 it will follow the story faithfuly to the first game focus on a Samurai vs Demons and the movie is directed by Christophe Gans and written by Keiji Inafune,
ONIMUSHA.
Director:Chrisophe Gans
Producers:Samuel Hadida,Victor Hadida
Production Company:Davis Films,GAGA Communications
Writing Credits:Keiji Inafune
Starring:Takeshi Kaneshiro.
Other video games will be going into films with
Far Cry,Hunter:The Reckoning and Fear Effect
also Halo, Devil May Cry,Spy Hunter and Hitman.
Hong Kong director Stanley Tony and Mindfire Entertainment
will be making the movie based on Edios Fear Effect series.
Virtua Fighter would make the movie loosey based on games
with the casting ideas of Jackie Chan as Lau,also Larry Kasanoff and Threshold are working on Mortal Kombat 3 and to
get the ideas on Capcom’s Darkstalkers series.
Thank you.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.
Posted by Bruce Darren Acosta | 17. Sep, 2006, 8:57 am