The video game Lost Planet is the next up to bat for adaptation. We get wind of this news and the following plot description from our friends at cinematical:
According to Variety, Warner Bros and Capcom (who is becoming very hands on with its movie adaptations) are teaming up to bring an adaptation of Lost Planet to the big screen. The script is to be penned by David Hayter, who is fresh off Watchmen.
(The story) follows a group of snow pirates who battle the local nasties, the Akrid, to obtain the precious commodity known as thermal energy. One pilot, Wayne, is rescued from an untimely death, and has an unfortunate case of amnesia. He can only remember bits and pieces of his past, including the death of his father by the monstrous Akrid. But as he searches for the truth of his attack, he uncovers a conspiracy that could destroy not only the Akrid, but all the snow pirates.
I haven’t played this game so I cannot comment on weather or not the above synopsis makes sense. Barren arctic planets interest me greatly for some unknown reason, so on some level – I’m already on board.
For those of you that have played the game – what are your thoughts. Is this a game that will lend itself well to a film; or are you left scratching your head? Video games have a brutal track record and people automatically assume they will fail. One day a film will have to buck the trend, with so many attempts coming down the pipe, one is bound to be decent (in theory). Will this be the one to do it…the magic 8 ball says the future is cloudy.
I have played both of the games and in my own persional expierence i think they were amazing and i think if they make the movie to follow the game storyline it would be good.
And i recommend if you havent played the game you should go buy it.
Lost Planet is an excellent, excellent video game with an awful, awful story. I recently played through it multiple times to capture footage for a video review of it, and I was appalled by many of the choices the designers made with respect to the story.
Three different arch-villains you meet and beat in sequence (thus diluting the central problem facing our hero), an increasingly bloated and unnecessarily complicated plot (the evil this conspiracy is meaning to do is never clear, nor its motivations for doing it), and a woman whose sole purpose was to get in the way (and thus become a liability) in the final confrontation.
Though I’d like to see great games get great movie adaptations, I can’t help but think that Capcom could have made a better choice for source material for their next licensed property. Then again, since they’ve been so successful with this title, they follow the money, and here we are. At least we’ll have a David Hayter script.
Let me start by saying that I’ve never played the game, so I’ve got nothing invested in this.
It looks like this project hits on the main points of the game (colonists kill aliens for fuel source, amnesia, big conspiracy) so I don’t have to worry about a movie that calls itself Lost Planet but is really about a zombie disease outbreak in a subterranian lab.
Hearing that David Hayter is attached to write does make me want to be at least a little optimistic because of his work on X-men and X2. Hopefully the fact that he’s working with a video game rather than a comic book won’t trip him up.
Capcom has a knack for making games like this extremely cinematic and exciting – except the execution in storytelling is totally butchered. Not much going on in this game made sense at all.
If all the comparisons are going to be made to Starship Troopers, this story doesn’t have the campyness that movie had to prevent it from being totally self-important.
Starship Troopers strayed waaay from its source material, and if this one did the same, could it avoid being just a video game clone of that film?
I played a demo of the game in a store. It was cool, but I’m not really into third person games. Would have been better as a shooter, imo. Still, kind of a cool story, could maybe be a decent film.
movie seems interesting.. mainlt because David Hayter (Solid Snake from the MGS series) is writing the script for the movie.. he wrote the screenplay X2..
lets see…
I finished it, its a fun game and the environments and the setting are amazing. Like someone said above think StarShipTroopers in the snow but with a better storyline and better acting.
I have played a little bit of it, but havent finished the game. The game is okay, i dont know about a movie though.
Havent played the game, Only saw the commercials.
I think starship troopers meets snow.
well this game i downloaded on steam and it was very fun…great landscape…like hoth but with wreck’d cities and crap…..it was a 3rd person shooter taht had pretty sweet animations at times…..but the best part about this is not many people played the game IMO so there can be a huge story line set behind this awesome planet…..i really think its better to make video game movies from sources like this……a quick 6 hour shooter with a story is easier to do then a epic MMO or something…..unless your blizzard and can fund it all
Reminds me of Starship Troopers, but in the snow.