Mom's Minute

Dead Island

Source of News:  CNBC, Chris Morris, October 13, 2011

Article:  Hollywood Plays Video Games for Inspiration

You may have seen video games that were converted to movies.  You may have also seen movies based on TV shows.  But did you know that Hollywood is leaning more towards using video games as inspiration for  movies?

The latest "acquisition" is the Dead Island video game.   According to the author, Hollywood was impressed with the trailer for the video game and decided Dead Island is a good candidate for a movie.

 Previously Hollywood had used television shows as a source for movie ideas.  Think Charlie's Angels, The Brady Bunch, Get Smart, and lots of others.

Could it be that  video games are going to have their spot in the limelight in the movie industry? 

Here is the cover art for Dead Island.

Dead Island

Other video game transformations planned for movies include Mortal Kombat, Mass Effect, BioShock,  World of Warcraft and Uncharted.  Also talks may be in the works for Call of Duty, even though  no deals have been annouced officially.

The advantages of turning video games into movies, is there will be a large segment of video game players already familiar with the characters and storyline.  This is also a disadvantage, because video game players pretty much know the story line, so it would not be in the interest of Hollywood to change it. 

 In fact, Hollywood had to bow to the request (demands?) of video game players  when it was initially planned for the Uncharted movie to change it's "Indiana Jones" storyline to a family of art thieves.  This change was a no go for the video gamers, so the movie's theme was changed back to the original plot!  Go video game players!

Ms. H's Take.  I am all for the continued entry of video games into the movie industry.  I've seen and enjoyed video games movies, including Mortal Kombat and others. There is some concern that some video games do not cross over well to movies; however, this can be expected.  May the collaboration between movies and video games continue!

As a footnote, I briefly looked at the trailer for Dead Island on YouTube--which has over 7 million hits.  I will admit that the trailer was imaginative, but as I've said in many of my Mom's Minute video game reviews, I was not too crazy about all the bloody scenes.

 Apparently, a lot of other people either liked it or were curious enough to look at it.  As they say.. to each his own!

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Ms. H

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