I'm sure a lot of you get Game Informer and have seen the article about video games being turned into movies. For those of you that haven't, it's becoming a lot more popular. I have an entire list of video games that are going to eventually be movies, and the talent that's involved.
Army of TwoScott Stuber - Producer (Former Universal executive)
Scott Burn - Writer,
The Bourne UltimatumEA
BioShockJuan Carlos Fresnadillo - Director,
28 Weeks LaterGore Verbinski - Producer (Director of Pirates of the Caribean series)
Dante's InfernoEric Newman - Producer,
Children of MenEA
Dead SpaceDJ Caruso - Director,
Disturbia,
Eagle Eye (Maybe we'll see Shia Labeouf play a bad-ass engineer in this one)
EA
Gears of WarLen Wiseman - Director,
Live Free or Die Hard,
UnderworldChris Morgan - Writer,
Wanted,
Fast & FuriousGod of WarCharles Roven - Producer,
The Dark KnightDavid Self - Writer,
Road to PerditionHaloOfficially on hold but rumor says that Steven Spielberg is interested. Microsoft is also working on a 7 part anime short based on Halo called Halo Legends
Trailer of Halo Legends:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXe6UtdtvsInfamousAvi Arad - Producer
SCEA
Lost PlanetAvi Arad - Producer
Capcom
Mass EffectAvi Arad - Producer
EA
Prince of Persia: The Sand of TimeJerry Bruckheimer Films
Disney
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUnoO17ZJgMThe SimsJohn Davis - Producer,
Norbit,
EragonEA
UnchartedAvi Arad - Producer
SCEA
World of WarcraftSam Raimi - Director,
Spider-ManAssassin's Creed IIA three part short about the game being made by Ubisoft.
This is all completely out of my GI magazine.
I'm mostly looking forward to BioShock, Gears of War, Dead Space, and Army of Two. The movies seem to be pretty promising because of the directors and producers involved.
