Shadow of the Colossus live action

[bandit29]

from the guy who was involved with the last Street Fighter movie...

Team Ico's beloved 2005 PS2 adventure is being turned into a film…by the screenwriter of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

The old showbiz saying goes, "You're only good as your last job." And while that axiom may hold true for much of Hollywood, it doesn't seem to apply to game-based movie projects. Case in point: Andrezj Bartkowiak, the director of the big-screen version of Doom. When that project bombed, he was promptly given the job of helming Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

The shock of today's announcement was enough to fell the mighty beast.

Now, despite The Legend of Chun-Li adaptation's spectacular flame-out at box-offices and with reviewers, its screenwriter has been handed another beloved, award-winning game license. According to both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Justin Marks has been asked to write the script for a big-screen version of Team Ico's Shadow of the Colossus. Currently, the scribe is working on a remake of 20,000 Leagues: Under the Sea for director McG (Terminator: Salvation, Charlie's Angels).

According to the trades, the big-screen Shadow of the Colossus is in the early stages of development at Sony Pictures Entertainment, sibling to the game's publisher, Sony Computer Entertainment. It will be produced by Kevin Misher, who worked on The Interpreter and this summer's Michael Mann-directed, Johnny Depp-starring gangster epic Public Enemies. He is also attached to a new adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel Dune, to be directed by Peter Berg (Hancock).

Hailed by reviewers upon its release in 2005, the PlayStation 2-exclusive Shadow of the Colossus sold over 900,000 copies in the US. Developed by Team Ico, which is working on its PlayStation 3 debut, the game follows a young warrior who has brought his fallen love to a faraway temple in the hopes of restoring her to health. According to a mysterious presence that dwells within the temple's walls, the only way to save this girl is to hunt down and destroy the 16 massive beasts that roam the surrounding lands. To see how the quest goes, check out the video review below.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6207542.html?...adlines;title;1

[UN Spacy]

I stopped at "from the guy who was involved with the last Street Fighter movie...".

They should at least give it to a director who has a grand vision and is faithful to the source material.

Gimme Guilermo Del Toro or Peter Jackson for SOTC.

[Mr March]

I knew it would happen sooner or later. Now I know what all those other screaming video game fans feel like.

Granted, Shadow of the Colossus is all about atmosphere. The story is really simple. But to give a treasured gem like SOTC to the Andrzej Bartkowiak? The guy who made Doom and Street Fighter the Legend of Chun-Li? They might as well just contract Uwe Boll.

What a waste.

[Einherjar]

Sony's so shocked they're speechless.

http://kotaku.com/5206051/sonys-colossal-n...-colossus-movie

[taksraven]

I knew it would happen sooner or later. Now I know what all those other screaming video game fans feel like.

Granted, Shadow of the Colossus is all about atmosphere. The story is really simple. But to give a treasured gem like SOTC to the Andrzej Bartkowiak? The guy who made Doom and Street Fighter the Legend of Chun-Li? They might as well just contract Uwe Boll.

What a waste.

Go Uwe!!! Did anybody see Postal? Is it worth looking at, even as a bad film?

Taksraven