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