Metroid coming to the big screen?

Mario Bros., Double Dragon, Tomb Raider...

Yeah.

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Originally Posted by EightBit

So she'll probably be a smack talkin' sassy bounty hunter.

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Samus will be a fat black chick?

First... what TV ads?

Getting to my main point, please let me know what the last GOOD movie Woo had done was. Seriously, because I'd love to know. He's riding on the fact that he made Hard Boiled, and the fact that he's known for having his characters use two guns, an idea that so many people have now done far better.

I'd really love to see them take a chance with this movie, give it to somebody you wouldn't be expecting. David Fincher would be good, give it a dirty (not porno, but gritty) sort of feel like Fight Club and whatnot. Or give it to Quint and see what he does with it. If he does it, hell, have Uma be Samus. *heh* I could see her in the part.

Whomever they pick to play Samus, I'd personally love to see an actress who is small and frail - a contrast to the big, hulking power suit.

And out of all of the video game movies that have been done, or are in the planning, it is shocking that we still have no Metal Gear Solid movie. I mean, that would be a no brainer in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

First... what TV ads?

Getting to my main point, please let me know what the last GOOD movie Woo had done was. Seriously, because I'd love to know. He's riding on the fact that he made Hard Boiled, and the fact that he's known for having his characters use two guns, an idea that so many people have now done far better.

I'd really love to see them take a chance with this movie, give it to somebody you wouldn't be expecting. David Fincher would be good, give it a dirty (not porno, but gritty) sort of feel like Fight Club and whatnot. Or give it to Quint and see what he does with it. If he does it, hell, have Uma be Samus. *heh* I could see her in the part.

Whomever they pick to play Samus, I'd personally love to see an actress who is small and frail - a contrast to the big, hulking power suit.

And out of all of the video game movies that have been done, or are in the planning, it is shocking that we still have no Metal Gear Solid movie. I mean, that would be a no brainer in my opinion.

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Probably faceoff. But, yeah, most of his work is sub par. While not all that bad, as a "fun" movies go, he does a decent job. Anyone expecting a john Woo film to have the depth of something like fight club is in for a rude shock.

If they're gonna cast an already established actress, if would have to be Natasha Henstridge, she's the only person I could think of that would really fit the part. She's got the quiet, strong personality and she looks the part. No other stars should even be considered over her.

Hilary Duff.

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Face Off was supposed to be fun? Wish I had known that, because I sure didn't have fun watching it.

They're going to make Samus "sexy," which means that they're going to completely screw her up. Not that she has to be ugly or something, but the entire point of her wasn't that she was some hot chick in a spacesuit, but the fact that she was a kickass bounty hunter who happened to be female.

Some people are saying that the movie should be like the original game - you aren't shown that she's a female until the very end. Fans will of course know, but for everybody else, it'll be an interesting surprise.

Also, the movie is supposed to be about her origins, but I'd rather see an Alien 2 sort of set-up. Have Samus be in a sort of mental funk over the ordeals that she's been through, and have a situation come up where she is forced to return to the planet and face the Metroid. Sure, have the movie be about cool action, but also be about her mental turmoil and the after effects of what she's seen and done.

Yeah, I'm going to agree with shidoshi here. John Woo's good movies: The Killer, Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow. His American movies have been terrible. Face Off was the stupidest movie ever. And stop casting Nick Cage and John Travolta in stuff, Mr. Woo. They make your shitty movies worse. Low budget + Hong Kong + Chow Yun Fat = Good John Woo film; Big budget + Someplace other than Hong Kong + no Chow Yun Fat = Bad John Woo movie.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Some people are saying that the movie should be like the original game - you aren't shown that she's a female until the very end. Fans will of course know, but for everybody else, it'll be an interesting surprise.

Also, the movie is supposed to be about her origins, but I'd rather see an Alien 2 sort of set-up. Have Samus be in a sort of mental funk over the ordeals that she's been through, and have a situation come up where she is forced to return to the planet and face the Metroid. Sure, have the movie be about cool action, but also be about her mental turmoil and the after effects of what she's seen and done.

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Take this one step further and go ahead and cast Sigourney Weaver. There's a cool surprise yor ya at the end!

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Originally Posted by Grave

Something might come out of the blue and turn it around. Granted, it's not going to be House of the Dead or whatever cinematic abortion Uwe Boll is currently planning to shit out next. Comic book movies pretty much universally sucked until X-Men, anyway. They've been hit and miss since, but we've been seeing enough quality ones to prove that it can be done.

That said, I don't know how well Metroid could work as a movie, and I don't think it's going to be the movie to turn this around. But I do believe some video game movies can be done right somehow. It just hasn't happened yet, that's all.

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You mean until BLADE. Xmen came out way later.

No wonder I couldnt find this thread....I was looking in Cinemania. Oh well. In terms of whether this will be good or not, I think that this movie would be better off in Woos hands than anyone else. Well........Gulliermo Del Toro is kewl.

The first time I see a CG Metroid I'm going to crap my pants.