More videogame movies coming

By Ellie Gibson Published 8 November, 2005

Kameo and a new Resi flick.

Since when did Hollywood stop coming up with original ideas and start nicking game concepts instead? Big screen adaptations of Silent Hill, BloodRayne and Castlevania are already on the way, and now two more videogame adaptations have been announced - alas, not there's still no sign of Katamari Damacy: The Movie.

First up is news that production company Maxmedia has acquired the rights to develop a film based on Kameo: Elements of Power, Rare's forthcoming Xbox 360 title. The full-length animated film will be written and directed by Sunmin Park, who also did Wonderful Days (known as Sky Blue in the US), an animated movie about how pollution is really bad and wrong.

Then there's good news for Resident Evil fans - according to The Hollywood Reporter, Paul S. Anderson, who directed the original film, is returning to take on Resident Evil: Afterlife. Anderson, you may recall, also directed Alien vs. Predator and the Mortal Kombat movie, and is currently working on Castlevania. Milla Jovovich will also be back to play Alice once again, and the movie will be produced by Constantin Film and Davis films.

As yet there's no release date for either film, but work on the Kameo movie is set to start next year.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (38) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Kami #1 6 years ago

    New Resi film?

    Please, oh please, oh pretty please please do not suck as much as Apocalypse...

    Oh, Anderson is back? Well, that seals it...

    /cries

  • Wobble #2 6 years ago

    \o/ MORTAL KOMBAAAAT!!!

    /got nothing.

  • tonynibbles #3 6 years ago

    Please please do a good job on the new Resi Film.

    Still haven't seen Apocalypse - too scared!

  • ecureuil #4 6 years ago

    But Anderson didn't direct Apocalypse..

  • tengu #5 6 years ago

    Video game movies = crap.

  • DaM #6 6 years ago

    blackdog- come on now, Cobra on the Spectrum was ace! Stallone's best work!

  • ecureuil #7 6 years ago

    Videogame movies don't have to be crap. Game fans are generally elitist bastards and nothing will ever please them when converting a game to a movie, even if it IS genuinely a good movie. Part of the problem is that people already decide the movie will be bad before they even see it.

  • Feanor #8 6 years ago

    Nope.

    Batman: The Movie was a great game on the Amiga 500 many years ago.

    King Kong looks good here in 2005.
    Edited by 1 at 08/11/05 @ 13:56

  • ssuellid #9 6 years ago

    Really enjoyed the first 2 Resident Evil films - bit of a shock as I was expecting them to be dire.

  • Sko #10 6 years ago

    "Since when did Hollywood stop coming up with original ideas and start nicking game concepts instead?"

    Hollywood... original ideas? I wanna live in your universe, Ellie.

  • ProfessorChaos #11 6 years ago

    Let's not forget Ghostbusters.

  • Celeborn #12 6 years ago

    Aladdin was also an awesome platformer back in the days

  • Megapocalypse #13 6 years ago

    Both of the Resi films are great! Looking forward to Afterlife. :)

  • PearOfAnguish #14 6 years ago

    Since when did Hollywood stop coming up with original ideas

    When did they start?

    Videogame movies don't have to be crap. Game fans are generally elitist bastards and nothing will ever please them when converting a game to a movie, even if it IS genuinely a good movie. Part of the problem is that people already decide the movie will be bad before they even see it.

    Have you ever watched any of the videogame adaptations? They are, almost without exception, utter shite. It's not about being elitist, it's about them being total crap. Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil are about as good as it gets, which really isn't saying much.

    Games based on movies suck

    Riddick, The Warriors, Aladdin, Spiderman, TIE Fighter, KOTOR?


    Back of the class!
    Edited by 1 at 08/11/05 @ 14:10

  • ecureuil #15 6 years ago

    PearOfAnguish - yes, most of them are crap. But they don't -have- to be. People seem to think that a movie of a game is automatically **** JUST because it's a movie of a game.

    And the RE movies are actually pretty decent. If you like zombie flicks (which I do) then they're rather good. They're as good as almost any zombie movie around.

  • caligari #16 6 years ago

    What about Platoon on the C64?

    What about 'that' N64 Bond game?

    What about Riddick?

    Games based on films are not ALLLLWAYS terrible.

    Films based on games though...well now THAT is another story.

    Streetfighter as a live action movie...and gawd damn, then they made a Streetfighter game BASED on the Streetfighter film.

    Awesome!

  • kangarootoo #17 6 years ago

    " Games based on movies suck
    Movies based on games suck"

    Ooooold, and not true.

    Shit games suck.
    Shit movies suck.

    /fixed

  • Sko #18 6 years ago

    "Mobile phones are quickly becoming the entertainment device of choice for many consumers."

    ...at which point he was quickly mobbed by his company's PSP marketing division and beaten?

  • smelly #19 6 years ago

    New Resi? Ace!

    At the end of the first resi, you got to see her muff.
    At the end of the second one, you got to see her baps

    In this one can we see her being rogered up the back passage by some giant zombie bloke?

  • PearOfAnguish #20 6 years ago

    PearOfAnguish - yes, most of them are crap. But they don't -have- to be. People seem to think that a movie of a game is automatically **** JUST because it's a movie of a game.

    Can you blame them? Paul Anderson's best film was Event Horizen, which was surrounded by rumours of other people actually putting together a decent edit, and since then the man has done nothing but make utter crap. After he'd finished destroying whatever credibility there was for videogame movies he then moved on to fucking up the Alien AND Predator franchises. And Uwe Boll...c'mon...he has never, ever made one film worth bothering with. I'm not just talking about his videogames movies, the man's 'career' is a joke, he's raping the dead corpse that Anderson left behind and movie and game fans have every right to reel in horror when either of these two fuckwits are linked to anything.

    And the RE movies are actually pretty decent. If you like zombie flicks (which I do) then they're rather good. They're as good as almost any zombie movie around.

    I love zombie movies. Both RE movies are crap. They're crap films and they're crap zombie films. Romero should have been allowed to do it then we might have got something more interesting than the watered-down kiddie shit-a-thon that was RE 1 & 2. As good as any zombie movie around? Sure sparky, next time I feel like watching a decent horror I'll put on RE instead of Dawn of the Dead, Zombie Flesh Eaters or Re-Animator.

  • paulf #21 6 years ago

    'Mobile phones are quickly becoming the entertainment device of choice for many consumers' what a load of cack !!! Lets pay 20 quid to watch a film on a tiny screen or lets pay 10 quid to watch the dvd on a big tele in surround sound, and thats without even getting into consoles as 'entertainment device of choice'

  • paulf #22 6 years ago

    true mate - but surely work and bus time is reserved for playing Advance Wars DS ;)

  • Wrobel #23 6 years ago

    Good games based on movies:
    - Goldeneye
    - Chronicles of Riddick
    ???

    Good movies based on games:
    ????

  • Kami #24 6 years ago

    I think the original Resident Evil was OK at best, and Doom was average... but that's really pushing things... Mortal Kombat was OK... god, this is HARD!

    Remind me never to pick this as a subject for Mastermind...

  • Sko #25 6 years ago

    I'm not going to argue they're good movies - but the Pokemon films have always seemed quite popular with their target audiences.

  • Sko #26 6 years ago

    Oh, and the original Tomb Raider was pretty good. The sequel kinda blew but there you go.

  • OllyJ #27 6 years ago

    The WARRIORS is a good film based on a game.

  • Kami #28 6 years ago

    OllyJ, it's the Dunces Cap for you...

  • Xerx3s #29 6 years ago

    Why?!

    /wanders off...

  • Aretak #30 6 years ago

    The original Resi film was fantastic. Granted, Apocalypse was utter shit, but hopefully the new one will rectify the situation with Anderson back at the helm.

  • Repsode #31 6 years ago

    Resident evil? nope i'll pass. But a Kameo anime from the makers of Sky Blue? SOLD!
    (Self proclamed otaku!)
    Edited by 1 at 08/11/05 @ 18:07

  • alexg #32 6 years ago

    A Kameo movie - what is the world coming to...

  • Gouki #33 6 years ago

    EB Games ships Kameo preorders; Perfect Dark Zero, Project Gotham Racing 3 expected in retail locations this week.

    I'll deliver some news

  • Bates #34 6 years ago

    Get a life Gouki.

  • BBIAJ #35 6 years ago

    Batman Begins and Constantine weren't half bad videogames...

    *hides*

  • Baronen #36 6 years ago

    ... Really, BBIAJ? 'cause Constantine had the potential to be alot fun. I just thought it, y'know, wasn't. Haven't tried it yet though.

  • TurdBreaker #37 6 years ago

    I wonder if they'll make a movie of the N64 game "Goldeneye"...

    Great game...

  • BBIAJ #38 6 years ago

    Well, I picked up Constantine dirt cheap as part of GAME's Deal Of The Week some months back now, and not having seen the film, have found it to be quite fun and enjoyable, despite the critical drubbing it received upon release.

    Has certainly made me want to see the film more so now.

  • TedBaker #39 6 years ago

    Kameo animated movie? Umm.. Pollution is bad? FFS! Haven't those people heard of Fern Gully?! The plot sounds soooo 1990s... Oh look, those horrid people in the Amazon are destroying trees for a living, but Kameo will make these people look toward sustainable rainforests and cut back on fossil fuel.