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Shiraishi-kun
11-18-2011, 05:59 AM
New Line Cinema, current motion-pictures-rights holders for the Mortal Kombat video game franchise alongside Warner Bros., have released information stating that they are in the process of planning a motion picture version of the classic arcade video game Rampage (shown below).

http://images.wikia.com/egamia/images/8/82/Rampage_Total_Destruction.jpg
http://movies.ign.com/articles/121/1212846p1.html

New Line Cinema producer John Rickard has stated that he "believes that technology has advanced enough that the possibility exists to make a smartly-budgeted monster movie in the vein and tone of Ghostbusters and Independence Day", stating that the framework set out by Rampage fits the bill extremely well.

Rampage began as a 1986 arcade game by Bally Midway, which became popular and was ported to home consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari 2600, SEGA Master System, MS-DOS and others. The series was followed up in 1997, 11 years later, with Rampage: World Tour, which was released for arcades, PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color, as well as other systems. Another game, Rampage: Universal Tour, was released in 1999, followed by Rampage Through Time in 2000. The most recent installment was 2006's Rampage: Total Destruction, released for GameCube, Wii and PlayStation 2. Here are some videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdX2q7d2a4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXXXslZloxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nosg6k6QY

What are your thoughts? Personally, I'm game. I love Rampage, and seeing a monster movie done in the style they're saying using the Rampage framework sounds like an excellent idea.

kirant
11-18-2011, 06:26 AM
I can't think of a Video Game movie that has worked.

Expectations cratered as soon as I got that far.

Rampage was fun though.

EDIT - Huh. TVtropes agrees
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameMoviesSuck