Why is it so difficult to make good movies based on video games?? Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-Screenrant
Hollywood struggles. Angry fans. Worlds that can never seem to mix. Video games and movies. Two of our most visual creative mediums have tried to crossover for decades with very little in the form of results. The expectations are now so low that with crossover adaptations between movies and video games, people just assume a video game based off a movie is terrible and a movie based off a video game is probably even worse. From low-budget rip-offs to over-budgeted disasters, Hollywood just cannot seem to get the formula right when it comes to creating a video game adaptation. But what exactly is the reason why? Are the expectations too high? Is it directly correlated with production issues? Or is the process of turning a video game into a movie dead on arrival? It’s time to really put the controller down and figure out what has gone so wrong with video game adaptations and if there’s any hope for the future.
There’s no denying it. Hollywood will adapt anything in an effort to make a profit and build a franchise. Adapting video games almost seems normal compared to movies based off of board games like Clue, toy products like Trolls, or even theme park rides like Pirates of the Caribbean. Compared to those, turning a video game movie should be pretty easy — but the struggles have been there since the beginning. Looking back — there’s only two video game films to receive a percentage higher than 50% on Rotten Tomatoes — and those were both released in 2018. While the future may have some potential — the past precedent is something extremely hard to overcome.
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