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Primus
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Ouija Production Budget: $5 million Worldwide Lifetime Gross: $72 million
It hasn't worked for years. |
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Ryu Shoji
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We need a super edgy Ecco the Dolphin the movie, where Ecco wears black leather, has dead relatives, a forced romance and saves the president of the United States from a nuclear missile strike.
Basically, Ecco the Dolphin made into every generic Hollywood action movie ever. Seriously speaking though, I think NiGHTS could make a pretty good animated movie in a similar vein to Tim Burton's stuff. |
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EricJ2
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(By which, I take it you don't mean "Big Eyes".) 
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Panzer Vor
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Valkyria Chronicles: Selvaria wears black leather, a lot of main characters have at least one dead relative, one could probably argue that the romance between Welkin and Alicia is a bit forced, and 7th Squad rescuing Gallia's head of state is a major plot event. Far from generic, though. I'm actually surprised Sega didn't offer Valkyria Chronicles up as an option, because it's one of its few properties that actually would lend itself very well to live action. |
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Emerje
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For that matter: Battleship Production Budget: $209 million World Lifetime Gross: $303,025,485 And these are only box office numbers, they don't reflect the home video releases which certainly bring the number higher. As long as these movies keep making someone money they aren't going anywhere. As for Sega, I think they might have something with Altered Beast and Golden Ax with the Hobbit franchise now ending. Emerje |
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Mohawk52
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Adapt its games in Hollywood? Just as well throw them into a wood chip grinder. You'll get the same output anyway. I hope the bonus is a good one.
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Kadmos1
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A dolphin that is the hero! Flipper, eat your heart out! |
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BadNewsBlues
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Does anyone have any good memories of Sonic X & the Valkyria Chronicles anime? |
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Rahxephon91
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enurtsol
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According to the Variety source article:
So, it's actually Sega taking control of its own destiny, not leaving it to Hollywood. |
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EricJ2
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Actually, they're following the rest of corporate Outer Hollywood and thinking, "If it worked for Hasbro, it can work for us!" Although the jury's still out on whether it really did work for Hasbro, at least after Hasbro had to sell off their other projects, including Ouija, to other third-party producers, and sold their Candyland movie to Adam Sandler, just to pay for a sunk Battleship. That said, the lack of a live-action Valkyria is nothing less than criminal. 
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GATSU
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mdo: That's actually a remake, but there's also this sucker.
Emerje: There was no reason to make Battleshit, though. People haven't played that game in years. Anyway, I'm rooting for a good Shinobi movie. |
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leafy sea dragon
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That is a strange list of SEGA franchises they want to adapt. Then again, it's pretty strange as it crosses over with none of the SEGA franchises I believe has a good chance at actually working.
Not to mention Taxi Driver, though its humor went darker than sitcoms of that time.
I had long thought about what SEGA properties I feel could work as a movie, and Jet Set Radio is at the top of the list. It's set in one location with a clearly defined conflict and a story simple enough to be told within two hours. The problem with video games being adapted into movies is that video games are more about the journey than the goal, which would look repetitive when you're not controlling the main character's actions. Who'd want to see the protagonist beat up armies of bad guys for hours nonstop? Playing it is fine, but not watching it. Jet Set Radio is one of the franchises whose gameplay is constantly changing its focus--you're given new challenges because the villains keep throwing more stuff at you--so it can work. Jet Set Radio Future even more so, as the player character is a new recruit. Graffiti is a thing that's still going on. Wherever you have a densely populated urban area with strong gang presence, you're going to have graffiti, as that's a means of gangs to mark their territory. Even in areas without a lot of people, there will still be at least a few hoodlums who feel compelled to write their pseudonym on everything. Recently though, there's been a rise in graffiti art, where the artists are paid to spray-paint a mural, with the artists having signature styles. (Here's an example from August 2014.) I wonder if a live-action Skies of Arcadia could work too.
That'd be interesting. Night of the Werehog showed that SEGA is very good at CGI animation. They set a pretty high bar when they decided it wouldn't have any dialogue, as it'd all come down to the animation. |
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mdo7
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I'm already aware of the film being a remake, but I do not want Crazy Taxi to look a lot like the American remake of Taxi. Taxi and it's French original is already similar to Crazy Taxi, so no need to adapt Crazy Taxi into a film. |
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Oscar the Grouch
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Hey now....I liked that damn DD movie lol. I loved those Streets of Rage games. Still got them and my Genesis too. That being said this just screams desperation by Sega to stay relevant. |
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