Movie director Roger Avary has worked on movies such as Silent Hill and Beowulf, but he passed on the silver screen iteration of Driver (probably for the best). But he's bang into his Wolfenstein. Has been since he was a kid.
Speaking to horror blog Fangoria, Avary beamed, "One of the foremost experiences I had growing up was playing Wolfenstein 3D. I played the original Castle Wolfenstein game, but really it was 3D that changed things. It was like a quantum leap in graphics at that point, and it was the first time I was transported inside another world and in control of it. My avatar was me, and when I turned it off, it was like I was leaving a very real world."
We feel strangely compelled to point out that it's only a game kids. It's not real.
Avary continues, reafirming our very own thoughts, "What's not to like? You have guys shooting Nazis, storming bunkers, blowing up bridges and busting dams. To me, there's this proud tradition of guys on a mission in WWII . I already loved that, along with monster films, and Castle Wolfenstein kind of pulls both of those together.
"So when the opportunity to do this movie came up-through Samuel Hadida, who produced my first film (Killing Zoe), I was like, 'Hands down, I'm in.' That's the kind of adventure for me. It's something I want to do, and I'm finishing the script now. I've kind of done the festival film circuit; I want to make a big popcorn adventure movie, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein seemed like the perfect thing for me."
I trust Avery. Silent Hill looked as if it could have broken the "movies based on games will suck" curse. The first act was good, but then it fell to pieces in the middle.
Well, we certainly are seeing a lot more game-film conversions. I'm interested to see how the Hitman film will turn out, though I'm sure it'll be cack.
Is this indicative on the fact that games are finally breaking into the mass media. Well I did see an ad that reported that you could use their shiny, new HDTV for games - which I'm sure is a first. Next thing you know, there'll be actual girls on these here forums!
Is this indicative on the fact that games are finally breaking into the mass media.
I think it's more that studios are looking at newer ways of making money, take almost any game, make it into a movie, and chances are you will attract the gamers to see what it's like, and the normal cinema goers just to see what the fuss is about.
Like all game-movie tie-ins, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it won't be a very good movie. They never normally are, but I'm waiting to be proven wrong.
Hopefully they use real scenery and not blue-screen it and if it must have CGI that it's done properly.
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