Star Wars The Force Unleashed

Play It Again: Video Games That Should Be Movies

By Kevin Kelly posted 1 year ago

The holiday video game season is already fast upon us, and over the next few weeks several highly anticipated video games will finally be hitting store shelves. However, none of them has a big-budget (or even indie-sized budget… that would be a fun experiment) film adaptation hitting the theater concurrently, which is probably a good thing, because we’d end up with a lot of half-assed video games.

But which new games should be turned into movies? Thankfully, imagination has finally been creeping back into games, and it’s high time Hollywood pays attention (although, of course, the guys blasting aliens with guns will still be there.) Here’s a list of video games that should be turned into movies.

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Vanity Fair’s Star Wars Sploogage

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

The whole Lucas/Spielberg Indy 4 cover made a certain kind of sense. It’s an epic narrative, the story of underdogs turned Hollywood royalty, and it’s also about the passing of torch from the star sphere of the 70s-80s-90s to the new generation, however annoyingly it may be embodied by Shia LaBouf. This kind of reification of Hollywood myth is the only way to pay Graydon Carter’s salary nowadays, even if it’s not something the average Christopher Hitchens reader really has much use for.
But why is Vanity Fair exhaustively covering a new Star Wars video game? To the point where they’ve not only posted a three-pager about the technology behind Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, but a 14-page slideshow of stills from the game itself? Are they that desperate to win the Digg crowd, and if so, do they really think teenage gamers will become loyal customers after this issue reels them in? Was this a contractual thing––ie: did Lucas only agree to the Indy interview on the grounds that the game would get coverage as well? And if so, why didn’t he offer better quality images than the one screen-capped at right?