Comments on: Radar Group addresses why video game movies suck

By: avj

avj — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:02:14 +0000

very good

By: Exclusive: Red Eagle to make multiple films and games based on Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time books » VentureBeat

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:01:02 +0000

[...] While the twin movie and game approach is risky, it reflects a growing trend in the industry. Video games have become so lucrative that movie companies have become loathe to give up the rights for games based on the movie properties to game companies. Instead, Disney and Warner Bros. have stepped up game production. Electronic Arts is also moving in the same direction, greenlighting media such as TV shows or comics based on its original game properties. Radar Group, a start-up that came out of stealth earlier this year, also wants to make games and mov…. [...]

By: JAFO

JAFO — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:00:21 +0000

Call me old-fashioned, but here’s a neat idea. How bout making a video game that’s just, I dunno, a video game? At the same time, let’s let Hollywood just make… movies. Yes, it sounds like a good idea to try to “ride the wave” of an initial success, but this obsessive-compulsive urge to turn an engaging video game or a good story into a cross-genre multimedia franchise is a risky financial gamble, and smacks of a screaming lack of interest in truly being creative. Too often the film or video game “based on” another thing is a pale shadow of the original, which only cheapens the overall “franchise” developers are trying to create. Instead of trying to force the creative process to fit their financial models, maybe movie and video game producers need to get better at determining when a story or concept has run its course.

By: EditorX

EditorX — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:14:51 +0000

I think it is early days yet and one should wait and see.