uk.gamespot.com/news/6207542.html
Should I be happy or extremely worried?
Be extremely worried. The script writer is, based on his recent work - the Chun Li movie, a horrible writer. Add that to the fact that the soul of the story in the game comes from the interactivity, there’s all sorts of room for them to botch it. You could feasibly make a movie that shares similar themes and styles, but it would be so vastly different from the game that you’d have to go in thinking it was something else.
Though I suppose the same can be said about any other adaptation. It needs to fit the strengths of the medium.
Lol.
I can see the appeal of the idea, in terms of an excuse for lots of gratuitous action and CG. And that’s precisely all it will be worth, no doubt at all. The story, such as it is, is far too esoteric and interesting to survive the translation to a Hollywood action flick.
Imagine some crappy action flick like Beowolf with 10x times the dragon battle and none of the dialogue. That’s how bad it’s going to be I imagine.
Yeah, Shadow of the Colossus would be challenging to adapt into a decent film. 
I personally think Panzer Dragoon Saga could be turned into a decent movie (or a couple of films). You have characters which would fairly easily fit into the Hollywood formula - the young orphaned hero (Edge), hero’s love interest (Azel), the comic relief character (Paet), the tragic villain (Craymen), etc. Add plenty of CG, powerful dialogue and music, and someone like Peter Jackson at the helm directing and you’d have an epic right there. It’ll never happen but one can dream.
You’d have to change the story to make it a movie; some parts in the game are very atmospheric and story driven, but they wouldn’t work on the big screen because they aren’t exciting and rely heavily on an audience that cares more about plot than explosions.
Which is exactly why a SotC movie will be bad. I’m still getting over the fact someone managed to mess up House of the Dead and Resident Evil, where the games themselves are PERFECT TEMPLATES for movies. SotC is the same, but the only person I’d trust with SotC, if I’m honest, is Miyazaki-san.
It’s a strange choice for a property to adapt.
I would like to see a seriously great director who is also into video games make movies. Stanley Kubrick’s Castlevania? Spike Lee’s ToeJam & Earl? David Lynch’s Panzer Dragoon? The possibilities!
But video games are still, at best considered low art and at worst a vapid waste of time. Until this general idea gets changed, I doubt there will be any seriously good video game-based movies.
Something like Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring would be one way of attempting to translate PDS to film (lets ignore the two later LOTR films for the sake of this discussion). Much of the book consists of less exciting scenes, e.g. travelling from place to place, characters talking about the history of the world, etc, but the writers managed to fit the story into three hours by merging scenes and focusing on the highlights of the story. The depth of the world is hinted at, but not enforced, thus not alienating the causal viewer.
Rather than showing Edge travelling from place to place, you could switch to another character. The game focuses almost completely on Edge, and that works as a game - a film could break up the story of Edge’s journey by switching to other characters - e.g. Azel, Paet, Gash, Viaman, the Emperor.
Shadow of the Colossus film writer speaks about translating the game to film:
He’s saying a lot of what I want to hear, but come on… it’s still Hollywood.
We’ll see I guess. shrug
More important, it’s still the guy who wrote Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li.
[quote=“link1987”]thank goodness someone beat them to it with this^_^
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Best Mega64 video yet? Quite possibly.