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Producer gets $200M for movies of Castlevania and... Pac-Man?!
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Okay, we all knew about the Castlevania movie that sounds potentially good, but I think it's news that the same people are doing a Pac-Man movie. And getting absurd amounts of money to do it.
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/castlevania-pac.html
Expect the Pac-Man film to feature Pac, distraught over the death of his wife by horrific specters from beyond the pale, seek cannibalistic vengeance against them while fighting off a crippling addiction to white dots.
Or something. I just made that up. Seriously, Pac-Man?!
Crystal Sky Pictures has signed a financing deal with production firm Grosvenor Park worth $200 million -- cash that will be used for the company's upcoming films based on Castlevania and Pac-Man, reports Variety
The Castlevania flick, currently slated for a 2009 release, was penned by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, DOA: Dead or Alive) and will be directed by Sylvain White (Stomp The Yard).
Wired.com spoke to Castlevania game producer Koji Igarashi about the film last year.
I'd like to speculate on how one creates a plot based on Pac-Man's premise of a yellow circle being chased through a maze by pixelated ghosts, but there's just no way to do it. They'd have better luck writing a film about a bag of sand.
Additional films seeing cash from this deal include a biographical look at Virgin mogul Richard Branson, as well as a remake of John Woo's classic action flick Hard Boiled.
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/castlevania-pac.html
Expect the Pac-Man film to feature Pac, distraught over the death of his wife by horrific specters from beyond the pale, seek cannibalistic vengeance against them while fighting off a crippling addiction to white dots.
Or something. I just made that up. Seriously, Pac-Man?!
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this is not exactly unprecedented
I was just kidding there.
Still, how the crap can you come up with 90 minutes worth of plot for Pac-Man?
If the movie was 90 minutes of that cartoon, I would go see it twice.
Unprecendented? No.
Very high chance of being shitty? Yes.
I wish the movie industry would just die from all the stupid shit they have done recently. The quality is rapidly falling. They have to fall back to video games and books. Good books but still, That means they can't write a good script of their own thats original and enjoyable.
Goddammit! I came in here to post this.
Looks like a man. Some kind of ... Pac ... Man.
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I'm just all bitchy about how they keep doing this to us. Its part of the reason I don't care to go see movies much anymore. Pacman... I mean....
There are no words that could describe how stupid a 90 minute film about pacman (besides non-fiction ) could be.
EXACTLY!
Castlevania, maybe. But they rarely get video game movies right. Mortal Kombat is the only one that was acceptable in my eyes. I am unable to think of any other videogame based movie that actually turned out alright and didn't clearly offend me or was a pile of excriment.
Since I had no idea what you guys were talking about, I went googling... and I absolutely concur with this opinion (though I think it would require being completely drunk first)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3n22GQMgcU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rRCqQJOmR1I
ya. That would be great actually. I think it would get tired after 20-30 minutes of it. I don't know though, I would love to find out.
Final fantasy: the spirits within was very tolerable. Had a decent plot. Good actors and didn't pretend to be more then it was. It is possible but I just think most people doing this are doing it for the paycheck and not because they want to make a good movie.
Good movies tell a story properly and don't use too much special effects or have to rely on some sort of gimmick.
Darth Malak has an odd filmography.
alright its not quite a pac-man movie, but the plot is somewhat pac-man like: dude gets injected with poison that kills him if his heart-rate drops, he starts chomping on caffeine pills/drinks and chases the bad guy for revenge.
...yeah, I very much doubt that, too.
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The Pac Man thing sounds like the bad financial decision of an old man who knows nothing about video games.
You care way too much about movie adaptations of video games. I mean you're not even responding to what Houk said, you're just continuing on your tangent.
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This, sadly. Plus random big-name celebrities thrown in there for no apparent reason.
Brad Pitt as Pac-Man or somesuch.
This is because, regardless of whatever optimism you may attach to it, the castlevania film will turn out to be another terrible Hollywood brainless cgi-heavy action piece.
The pac-man licence will at least force them to do something different.
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It's being penned by Paul W.S. Anderson.
Get over Mortal Kombat, people, it was a fluke. Everything he's done since then, everything has been pure unadulterated shit.
And the slightly more serious Mega Man.
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and fuck off Paul WS Anderson