Shadow of the Colossus

[TheButcher]

From Variety:

Sony will adapt the popular PlayStation 2 title "Shadow of the Colossus" into a bigscreen actioner, with Justin Marks penning the screenplay and Kevin Misher in negotiations to produce.

"Colossus," which bowed exclusively on the PlayStation 2 in 2005, revolves around a man named Wander who must travel across a cursed wasteland and defeat 16 creatures, known as the colossi, in order to restore the life of a girl.

Project, which proved a big seller for PlayStation and was produced internally by Sony Computer Entertainment, will build upon the vidgame's fantasy setting of a solitary world with few characters other than the 16 enemies.

"Colossus" is the latest high-profile project for Marks, who is writing the redo of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo" at Disney, with McG attached to direct. He recently landed "Suicide Squad," based on the DC Comics book, at Warner Bros., for which he's also written "Green Arrow: Escape From Supermax," also based on the DC character, and "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe."

He's also adapted "Hack/Slash" for Relativity, based on the Devil's Due comicbook, and the '80s TV toon "Voltron: Defender of the Universe," for Mark Gordon Prods.

Misher will produce through his Misher Films shingle.

His pic "Fighting" bows this month through Rogue, and "Public Enemies" goes out this summer through Universal. Misher has a number of projects in development at Paramount, including the romantic comedy "Swingles" and "One Free Murder," which Marks wrote based on an idea by Nicholas Pileggi.

[tylerfulltilt]

God only knows what kind of script Justin Marks is gonna turn out for this thing. But I have hope for it, because I just watched Tarsem Singh's amazing "The Fall" So I went and created one of those online petitions to try and get Sony to give him a crack at directing the thing.

If you'd care to sign it and save one of the greatest video games of all time from being an absolutely atrocious movie, here it is:http://www.petitiononline.com/singhsoc/petition.html

[tylerfulltilt]

McG is directing?

there is a single word going through my head over and over again right now.

that word is fuck.

edit:

wait, I read that wrong, thank the fuck christ.

[Fried Gold]

What lies in the shadow of the colossus?

[Ribbons]

What lies in the shadow of the colossus?

*crosses fingers*

giant CGI blob, giant CGI blob...

[stereosforgeeks]

What lies in the shadow of the colossus?

*crosses fingers*

giant CGI blob, giant CGI blob...

you forgot riding on horse... nothing around... riding on horse... nothing around...

[Ribbons]

IPAMPILASH!

Look stereos, it's a little thing called atmosphere! How do you think it was named one of the 10 best games of all-time?

[/hasntplayedgameever]

[stereosforgeeks]

IPAMPILASH!

Look stereos, it's a little thing called atmosphere! How do you think it was named one of the 10 best games of all-time?

[/hasntplayedgameever]

Its a cool game and it pushed the medium forward but as for making a movie of it, Im not sure it will work.

[Gerald Fried]

Movies based on computer games never work.

[Pacino86845]

What about Dune?

[papalazeru]

What about Dune?

Are we talking Dune 1 or Dune 2: Battle for Arrakis?

I say we have more games based on Perfumes cuz Fahrenheit was amazing. The boxed smelled gud too. Then they can become filmz.

[Pacino86845]

If they're gonna adapt another video game (and they will), they should probably just pick something really weird and demented, like Katamari Damacy maybe... most "mainstream" video games nowadays are in a sense adaptations of movies. The stories are basically simplified and extended versions of films we all know and love, so re-translating them back to the film world obviously leads to less than stellar outcomes.

[magicmonkey]

If they're gonna adapt another video game (and they will), they should probably just pick something really weird and demented, like Katamari Damacy maybe...

I'd love to see "Pong" adapted into a feature,





































presented in glorious smell-o-vision.

[papalazeru]

If they're gonna adapt another video game (and they will), they should probably just pick something really weird and demented, like Katamari Damacy maybe...

I'd love to see "Pong" adapted into a feature,

Pong has been done

I want to see Gondry do Super Mario Galaxy with ILM for special effects. Tripatron: The movie, or any Jeff Minter game to be honest.

[TheButcher]

God only knows what kind of script Justin Marks is gonna turn out for this thing. But I have hope for it, because I just watched Tarsem Singh's amazing "The Fall" So I went and created one of those online petitions to try and get Sony to give him a crack at directing the thing.

If you'd care to sign it and save one of the greatest video games of all time from being an absolutely atrocious movie, here it is:http://www.petitiononline.com/singhsoc/petition.html

Maybe after he's done with War of the Gods.

[TheButcher]

‘Chronicle’ Helmer Josh Trank Takes On ‘Shadow Of The Colossus’

[TheButcher]

'Hanna' Writer to Pen 'Shadow of Colossus' for Sony (Heat Vision Exclusive)
"Chronicle" helmer Josh Trank is attached to direct the video game adaptation.

Seth Lochhead, the Canadian-born scribe who co-wrote the action film Hanna, has been tapped to work on Shadow of the Colossus, Sony’s adaptation of the popular PlayStation 2 video game.

Josh Trank is attached to direct the project and came on board in May 2012 after being launched by his hit sci-fi pic Chronicle. He will oversee the writing of the script. Justin Marks wrote an early draft of the script when the project was initially set up in 2009.

The game’s story involves a young man named Wander, who, riding his trusty steed Argo, travels a world defeating 16 colossal beings in order to resurrect a girl named Mono.

Kevin Misher is producing. Misher Films’ Andy Berman and Kevin Chang are overseeing.

Lochhead has The Governess, a top secret project being produced by Michael Bay, set up at Warner Bros. and has written an adaptation of sci-fi novel The Age of Miracles for Bill Pohlad’s River Road Entertainment.

Hanna was an intriguingly off-beat 2011 action movie directed by Joe Wright and starring Saoirse Ronan as a teenager trained to be an assassin by her father, played by Eric Bana.

Lochhead is repped by WME, Circle of Confusion and Myman Greenspan.

[Ribbons]

Hanna was a very impressive debut script and Chronicle was a very impressive debut film, so this is only good news as far as I'm concerned.