Although Hollywood studios have tried to make a buck on live-action film adaptations of video games for decades, aside from a collection of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best video game movies, rarely do these attempts give us the kind of movie worth caring 🏅🀅about as much as the games we play and love.
TV, on the other hand, seems to be ahead of the curve, especially with the recent success of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Witcher Netflix series. Granted, the series was inspired by Andrzej Sapkowski’s written works which, in turn, became the basis of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:CD Projekt Red’s acclaimed action RPG trilogy. But, let’s face it, The Witcher enter🐭ed Netflix’s radar thanks to the success of the games. Even Henry Cavill got himself cast as mutated monster hunter Geralt of Rivia, in part, because he’s a gamer who can’t get enough of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Which made us think, which games or game series would be perfect for TV adap⭕tation?
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NOTE: Spoilers to follow, so tread lightly.
God of War
This was obvious even before God of War director Cory Barlog suggested his critically-renowned PS4 exclusive would lend itself well to a Netflix-style series, but his endorsement certainly helps.
The original games - also exclusive to Sony consoles and set among the myths of ancient Greece - were never heavy on characterization and story. Sure, Kratos had his tragic reasons for setting out to murder every man, god, and titan who got in his way, and Greek mythology is rife with sordid, gripping tales. But, when you get down to it, the original 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:God of War trilogy worke𓃲d chiefly because it was fun to slash apart satyrs with some sweet looking swords attached to chains and pummel Zeus’s head into mush.
That’s not great TV. But here’s what is: a father trying to raise an adolescent son he kept at arm&rsqu♌o;s length for too long, largely because of his bottled rage and shame for his past sins. That level of pathos intr🌄oduced in Sony’s 2018 franchise reboot makes all the difference. Plus, that instalment opened up all sorts of possibilities to explore ancient gods from cultures across the globe, all while telling a human story of a father, a son, and the boy’s mysterious mother Faye.
Picture the use of Arrow-like flashbacks to tell parallel stories featuring Kratos’s origins in Greece or even explore Faye’s journey before Kratos arrived among her others frꦇom Norse mythology. There’s so much untapped potential within the relationship between Kratos and young Atreus, and TV has what it takes to bring their story to the masses the right way.
Metal Gear
From Big Boss to Solid Snake, and all the clones and doppelgangers in between, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hideo Kojima’s beloved tactical espionage acti൲on series is full of lore and political intrigue thatᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ screams “binge-watching session”.
Across all the Metal Gear games produced by Konami under ♏the guidance of Kojima since 1987, the series explores ethical conundrums few games had considered either befor﷽e or since. Nuclear proliferation, the ethics of cloning and genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and Cold War politics all would make for interesting themes to see breathe and be deconstructed during full seasons of TV, rather than crammed into a film or two.
Notorious for its lengthy cutscenes and long sections of little else but dialogue, Metal Gear feels readymade for a TV show, as it imagines a world where walking tanks are armed with nuclear missiles and super soldiers are just pawns in a greater game. It’s cast of over-the-top villains across five decades worth of story would work well in an episodic setting, too, in much the same way Netflix’s The Witcher gave Geralt something to ꦛresolve within each episode.
Assassin's Creed
Ever sit down to watch the 2016 film starring Michael Fassbender? It… wasn’t great. 🎃Film just isn’t the right medium for the millennia-old rivalry between the Assassins and the Templars. It’s sci-fi elements really need more explanation than a movie would ever allow for. Better for a TV series to show how the Animus permits modern-day humans to experience the memories of their ancestors in order to track down artifacts of great power. Teasing out theౠse Pieces of Eden and their origins over 10 episodes could build some serious intrigue from pilot to series finale.
Even if a show based on the popular Ubisoft series dropped the present-day meta story altogether, Assassin’s Creed would be ripe for an anthologized season structure. One season could go back to the Italian Renaissance, following the charismatic Ezio Auditore on his path to becom🌳ing one of the most revered assassins. Another could visit the American Revolution and the father-son struggle between Assassin Connor and his British Templar father Haytham Kenway. There’s no shortage of already established stories from various 🦄time periods to revisit.
As historical fiction, an Assassin’s Creed series could contextualize the past for modern audiences, especially those unfamiliar with, say, The Crusades or the Bo𝓰lshevik Revolution.
