I've previously mentioned that Shadow of the Colossus is probably my favorite game of all time. So you'd think that news like this would thrill me. At this point however, I'm just wonder to what degree of awful this movie will be. Now, I'm not the kind of person that immediately writes off video game movies, though I probably should, so let me explain to you why this will be horrible.
SotC has a style of storytelling that is extremely subtle, the visuals are very stylized, and things are left open to interpretation. You feel sorry for these giant beasts as they collapse to the ground, and how that emotion is conveyed is through the music and the open endedness of your reasoning to fight them.
So who did they get to mold this subtle and beautiful story into something right for the big screen? Justin Marks, the man behind the screenplay for the recent box office bomb, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Now granted, this isn't confirmed, and maybe he's got more in him that we've yet to see, but I just can't see this man handling this movie in anyway that could be described as subtle.
Maybe things will change before they start shooting. Perhaps the screenplay will defy expectations. We've yet to hear of a director as well, maybe they'll bring in somebody that can really nail a visual style that matches the artisticness of the game. Still, there are so many hurdles to making this movie amazing that we might as well set our hopes to crushed mode now and save ourselves the heartbreak.
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Yea I heard about this also and instantly thought i should tell you about it. This could either be a really great movie or a really shitty movie. I don't think there can be an in between. I can see the visuals looking really amazing if the 3-D technology that James Cameron is developing for Avatar is as great as everyone says it is.
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