<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Silent Hill movie with Brotherhood of the Wolf director Cristophe Gans. Interested?</div>
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Silent Hill movie with Brotherhood of the Wolf director Cristophe Gans. Interested?
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<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Oh, great. That means some Japanese game programmer with barely a rudimentary sense of what makes a good story has the power to nullify a script written by a professional. It's Capcom and George Romero all over again.</div>
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<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>So did I, and yes, it had its problems. Two things to keep in mind, though: 1) It was a first draft (scripts typically go through several revisions). 2) Romero's scripts always read worse than they play on film. He puts WAY too many ellipses in his dialogue.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Don't misunderstand: Silent Hill is owned by Konami, and they have every right to dictate the requirements of a Silent Hill movie. Whether or not said requirements will result in a good script and a good film, however, is in question. Is there anyone who works at Konami who has intimate knowledge of how to write or direct a good film? Do we want videogame executives dictating the artistic terms upon which the Silent Hill movie will be made? You may think I'm assuming too much, but consider if the positions were reversed. Suppose Silent Hill originally started off as a movie, and Konami wanted to make a game about it. Would you feel comfortable, if you were a game developer, with a bunch of Paramount or Tristar executives who have little to no knowledge about making games telling you how they want the game to be made? I wouldn't. And I doubt Cristophe Gans wants some Konami producer telling him how to make a Silent Hill movie, either.
This isn't about who has the "right" to tell whom how to make a movie. Konami can demand whatever it wants of Mr. Gans. This is about who has the necessary expertise to make a good movie. As far as I know, no one in Konami with the possible exception of Hideo Kojima (and I'd be wary of him, too) seems to have the know-how to write a good script and turn it into a decent film.</div>
This isn't about who has the "right" to tell whom how to make a movie. Konami can demand whatever it wants of Mr. Gans. This is about who has the necessary expertise to make a good movie. As far as I know, no one in Konami with the possible exception of Hideo Kojima (and I'd be wary of him, too) seems to have the know-how to write a good script and turn it into a decent film.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Well, I actually did get your point, but I think final creative control is to be expected with any licensed work. And I'd expect a final "yea" or "nay" to not be intrusive in the creative process, but that could end up being the case.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>I don't think it's unfair for the owners of intellectual property to want to have control over how their intellectual property is used.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>No, but why are you assuming that Konami are going to try and dictate creative terms to the filmmakers? Konami's veto power allows them to ensure the film is true to the source material. If the filmmakers don't want to operate with those restrictions, they should produce non-licensed material.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt ; text-align: left; '>dammit, thats my line!</div>
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Enlighten me for people who don't understand The Great Capcom-Romero War of 1902...</div>
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>As Paul Anderson is the only one who has ever made a (two) movie(s) based on a video game that's been any good, I'd say they have the right to have some control, at least so Hollywood doesn't fuck it up. Why do you think Marvel films have turned out so much better now that Arad has certain control?</div>
I was there on that fateful day, were you?
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The reason so many movies licenced from games or comics have been so bad is because there was no creative control at all from the originators, which led to Hollywood doing what it wanted while neglecting what made the property popular in the first place</div>
I was there on that fateful day, were you?
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>In the case of some egregious creative error that shows either ignorance or contempt for the source material, like the Super Mario Brothers movie, then of course control should be exerted. I have no idea what kind of film Cristophe Gans is going to make with Silent Hill, but somehow I doubt that he'll go and turn it into a romantic comedy or something similarly stupid. He's a professional director with a good film (Brotherhood of the Wolf) under his belt, and you may rest assured that he probably knows more about filmmaking than any of the staff at Konami. In short, my worry isn't whether Gans is going to create something that isn't "true" or "faithful" to Silent Hill; it's whether Konami will narrowly dictate to him what a "true" and "faithful" adaptation of Silent Hill should be.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Back in the mid-late nineties, Capcom placed Geroge Romero in charge of writing and directing a film adaptation of the Resident Evil games. The move acknowledged the games' massive debt to Romero's famous zombie film trilogy, and was generally hailed by horror fans as a potentially daring departure from the norm of safe, inoffensive and generally boring videogame-adapted films. For his part, Romero promised a film that respected the spirit of the games, despite admitting that he'd never played them (though he claimed to watching someone else play through the first game in its entirety), and hinted that there would be two versions of the movie: an R-rated one for the theaters, and an NC-17 director's cut with loads of gore, violence, and everything else generally expected of a movie that posits cannibalism as its predominant theme.
But as time passed with little word of what was going on with the Romero version, Capcom suddenly announced that Romero had been dropped from the project. Not many quite know what happened, but the stated reason for the firing was Capcom's belief that the project deviated from what they wanted to see in a Resident Evil movie, that Romero's script wasn't any good, and that he was taking too many liberties; "he had zombies wearing sunglasses" claimed one Capcom official. The project floated in limbo until, for whatever reasons, Capcom decided to hand the reins over to Paul Anderson. The rest is history.
Not much remains of the Romero-Capcom legacy save a first draft of a script and several accounts of "what happened" from various sources. You can find those on the Internet without too much trouble, so I'll save myself the burden of recounting them here.</div>
But as time passed with little word of what was going on with the Romero version, Capcom suddenly announced that Romero had been dropped from the project. Not many quite know what happened, but the stated reason for the firing was Capcom's belief that the project deviated from what they wanted to see in a Resident Evil movie, that Romero's script wasn't any good, and that he was taking too many liberties; "he had zombies wearing sunglasses" claimed one Capcom official. The project floated in limbo until, for whatever reasons, Capcom decided to hand the reins over to Paul Anderson. The rest is history.
Not much remains of the Romero-Capcom legacy save a first draft of a script and several accounts of "what happened" from various sources. You can find those on the Internet without too much trouble, so I'll save myself the burden of recounting them here.</div>
