It's a bit indeed.

I don't believe it

Besides...The game is all about the emotional journey of the player...Hours and hours of lonely riding through the empty wilderness...The ambience of solitude and the feeling that gives you...How the hell can you represent that in a film...A cinema full of people watching a boy and his horse for 3 hours isn't going to appeal to the mass market...Even the game wasn't a mass market thing...And then when you lose your only friend before the final battle...There's real emotion there...I don't think you can possibly reflect that in a film...I really can't see how on Earth this would work if I'm honest...But we'll see...

I wonder if they will speak gibberish in this film, like they do in the game?
And if it is anything like the game, the script wouldn't even be that big.
Unless it's something like a Lone travelers kinda story, where the main character speaks the story off screen, like he's telling it to someone, while you watch him on screen doing his thing of what he's talking about.

I guess you need one hell of a writer and also a director to make this movie be as good as the game.
Especially a game with a deep story where the player kinda has to imagin himself what has happened in the past, and what would happen afterwards.
Hmm..
Maybe they make a movie of what happened before the events of the game?
That would kinda ruin the mystery of it, I think.

Or maybe it's the story of how Dormin got sealed, how it all happened when he/she wanted to take control?

Wow, I'm already surprised they wanna make a movie out of this on such a short time since it's release.
I wonder if I'll be surprised if it turns out to be a good one.

Has there ever (ever) been a movie made from a video game that was even remotely worth watching? Doom was horrendous, Tomb Raider is terrible, and Super Mario Bros...well that's resented even by the people that made it.
Case and point.
This film will ruin the perfection of the game, and taint it with disgusting crapness.

quote Ville_Valo

Has there ever (ever) been a movie made from a video game that was even remotely worth watching?

I thought Mortal Kombat (the first one) was remotely worth watching.

I honestly see this falling harder than any colossus fell in the game.

I think their best hope would be to turn it into an avant garde type film, without trying to turn it into any big-plot hollywood style thing. But you're right, they'd have to do something with it, and anything they do will ruin the translation from game to movie.

quote Ville_Valo

I think their best hope would be to turn it into an avant garde type film, without trying to turn it into any big-plot hollywood style thing. But you're right, they'd have to do something with it, and anything they do will ruin the translation from game to movie.

What translation? The game had a mostly "use your imagination to fill in the blanks" plot. There are so many unanswered questions. You know generally what is going on but that's all.

I really am confused as to what they intend to do in the film version. It really is a completely different medium and a different experience. I suppose they are going for some kind of special effects extravaganza.

I just mean that, in translation from game to movie, anything they do to adapt it to the movie format will ruin the movie in itself.

and if it's going to be anything but an avant garde film you can't have it be "open to translation" in that much capacity or it'll most likely tank at the box office. for the most part folks want to be spoon fed their plotline and trying to remain as faithful as possible to what we see in the game just wouldn't pan out successfully on the big screen. there would be a lot of creative liberties that would need to be taken in order to make this something marketable.

i am however very curious to see how this project develops, though. it's just that that curiosity comes with an equal amount of apprehension.

If its not a faithful translation then theres no point in using the sotc name. seriously how hard can it be to dream up a premise for a man to fight monsters.