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Modern Warfare Movie Adaptation In The Works?
by GrathiusXR:
©2009 Arthur Kotsopoulos
Oh no! It seems that yet another game to feature film adaptation will be Activision/Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2. MovieWeb reports that Kevin McKidd, who voices Captain “Soap” McTavish, seems to have commented that the movie is picking up steam and a few scripts have already been penned.
Will there be a film, and will it be any good?
If this is to become a reality then it will be one of the many games being made into a film amongst the likes of Bioshock, Gears of War, soon to be released Prince of Persia, Tekken and many more. (ED- See list of games to film at bottom of article HERE.)
Now we all know the history of game-to-movie adaptations and we all know rarely any of them are remotely good or true to the game’s storyline or feel: *cough cough* Far Cry.
Many have shown great potential such as Max Payne yet upon release have been unexceptional or disgraceful and not worth the price of watching it in the cinemas (or even renting it on dvd).
How on earth a Call of Duty film would work is beyond me. Modern Warfare 1/2 were told in a sort of Inglorious Basterds style, jumping from protagonist to protagonist always in different places and different times.
CIA, terrorists, shooting: sounds like most movies these days
Yet translate that into a movie and you’re probably looking at hours of disjointed jumping from one place to another, so how would a Call of Duty movie work exactly? It beats me, but as Kevin says there is apparently a script which has been penned and is very good.
Still, games like Far Cry, Max Payne and Alone in the Dark, to name a few which have been failures, have pretty much shown gamers that unless treated with precision and heart it will not live up to its game counterpart.
Prince of Persia on the other hand, based on the first trailer, shows great promise. Yet all us movie buffs know just how trailers show all the good stuff then come movie time there’s barely any good stuff you
Coming soon to theatres....
haven’t seen.
Let’s hope come release the Prince of Persia movie does exceptionally well and finally break the blend of the horrible game-to-movie adaptation curse.
As well as that let’s hope some more light is shed on this supposed good CoD Modern Warfare script. I wouldn’t mind a CoD movie but knowing its
formula the cast will have to be spot on and story wise it will need something decent and not too over the top. Then I might not mind paying the cash to have a good laugh.
Dead or Alive was probably one of the best (unintentional) comedies in the year it was released and well worth the price of watching it; heck I got my money’s worth.
So Call of Duty movie or not? Ideas? Thoughts?
©2009 Arthur Kotsopoulos
Filed under: Xbox 360 News
To start, MW is an excellent game.
If a movie is going to be made, then make an excellent movie, don’t make crap, like Far Cry…
If the movie is going to stay bad, don´t do it…
And don’t do all together, I think that it should be made MW 1, with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare story, then MW 2 with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
I think that Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay, Ridley Scott, maybe a few more, could be the directors, maybe just one of them, maybe all together! (Like Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks in Brothers in Arms and The Pacific, together, they made a great work!)
I think Russel Crowe looks like Soap, if he had some arranjes, and he could “train” the scottish accent… And he has so many experience in action movies! So, I think that would be a good choice…
For Price, I’m not seeing anyone that is similar to him… But I’m sure that the producers will find someone… Roach could be anyone, I think Leonardo DiCaprio would be fine. Gaz and Ghost should be the same person, because they have the same voice, and Ghost is masked, so his face doesn’t need to be revealed. I’m not seeing anyone for Shepherd and Nikolai right now, but I’m sure the producers will find someone. I really want this movie to happen, but I want it good, remember this.
So, please Ridley Scott (or the other two that I mentioned, but Ridley especially, because he has many experience in war movies) start doing this movie now! I promise you that if you make an excellent movie, you will be awarded, if not awarded by the Oscars, will be by fans
Goodbye, and for GOD sake, please, do this movie! (Sorry for my bad english, I’m portuguese.)
Two directors they really need to consider, buy not limited to: Michael Bay (with no love story). Martin Cambpell (two of the James Bond films “Goldeneye”, “Casino Royale”)
i think the best way to make a movie based on CoD:MW is taking the same style that Black Hawk Down have, also taking the observation that every level of the game is a small story of a big conflict, every story could be on charge of different directors i recomend jerry bruckheimer, michael mann, karyn bigalow among others… every story should have a small debrief before (just like in the game) because to be honest nobody care in seeing stressed people runing around from each direction in an office with all the paperwork that is behind, that will just slow the movie, i recomend a fast forward movie with intense scenes.
only then this movie will feel like the game… at least a little
Well…
i guess that Michael Bay WON’T do it… kopfeully, because TF2 was jsut a big dissapointment to me, so i really hope that some really good (and maybe newer) director, like JJ ABRAMS or NEIL BLOMKAMP could direct it.
ABRAMS surprised the hell outta me with his STAR TREK movie, but BLOOMKAP`MP did a fantastic job in DISTRICT 9, too…
but my secret favorite is CHRISTOPHER NOLAN!!!
The script really should include some backstories of the soldiers (i haven’t played CoD: Modern Warfare 1 so far, but MW 2 is just awesome, especially the cool Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer!) and some other cool trivieas about the locations and so on…
So, i hope MW1 will be scripted very well (maybe by Orci&Kurtzman or David S. Goyer) and the companies are picking the righ director for it… but i’m afraid there won’t be any CoD-movie before 2014…
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