Lost Planet may be making its way to the big screen but my knee jerk reaction doubts that after this latest tidbit.
It’s reported to cost between $150m and $200m.
Speaking of “Lost Planet”, that project will cost somewhere between 150 and 200 million dollars to make. The producer on the project is Avi Arad, producer of Spider-Man. I think that it is because of our original IPs that we are able to try something so ambitious.
Last time we heard of this sort of extraordinary budget for a video game movie was Halo.
John just got chills when I mentioned that.
Anyways, I don’t argue that to truly capture the visuals from the game it may very well take a lot of money. However, this game was not nearly as big as the fanatical following for Halo, and they turfed that over a budget (and lack of faith in the inexperienced director attached).
Video Game movies already have a big hurdle with being a movie based on a video game, but to throw around numbers like this seems foolhardy.
Have you played Lost Planet? Are you looking forward to an adaptation?
Not saying it can’t happen, but when was the last time a video game movie cleared $200m at the boxoffice?
