Saturday, March 6, 2004

Well, that's interesting..
I finally got to the most recent page of MegaTokyo just now. I'm glad that Largo's little adventures aren't as frequently displayed as of late, and that things are focusing more on Piro.

Largo always bothered me.

But reading Dom's little blog thing at the bottom of the page led me to an interesting page, containing an interesting little tidbit of information.

They're making a Soul Calibur movie.

"Warren Zide's Anthem Pictures has acquired the film rights to "SoulCalibur," the popular fighting video game from Namco. The project will be Zide's first under Sony-based Anthem, his equity-backed financing and production shingle. The video game story revolves around two warriors who are chosen by Shaolin monks to recover and destroy a powerful sword that has fallen into the hands of an evil prince who plans to use it to open the gates of hell and destroy the world. "SoulCalibur 2," the most recent version of the video game, has racked up sales of 5 million units on all platforms, and the game also is a critical fave. It received the best fighting game award at last year's E3 interactive game conference, and Electronic Gaming Monthly named it the multiplatform game of the year. Matthew Rhodes and Noel Vega are producing with Anthem. Jesse Warshal is overseeing it at Anthem. Zide, along with manager Craig Perry, produced Universal Pictures' "American Pie" franchise, which grossed more than $340 million at the domestic boxoffice. The two also produced the two "Final Destination" movies for New Line Cinema. (Borys Kit)"

..Hm. After a Street Fighter movie, plus the Mortal Combat one.. I don't quite know what to think of this idea. Creating a movie out of the original Soul Calibur game.. Honestly, I haven't played it. I didn't even know the franchise existed until Nintendo Power first put out an article about it. But, above everything else, if the original SC is going to be made into a movie, it's going to need plot. A series using a genre which generally does not need a big story to entertain players, in this case I am referring to fighters, cannot make a good movie without a feasible, half-decent, non-cliche plotline.

SCII, technically, didn't have the best plot in the world. Sure, the characters had rather long biographies, though a little cliche (Now, um, how many of the characters' families died in some sort of tragic event that led our hero to a life of violence?), and the Destined Battle cutscenes were enjoyable, but the story really wasn't taken anywhere. The Weapon Master Mode plot was dull, as well. I just stopped reading it after a while, and just went to the actual events.

Oh, also.. If I remember correctly, the same people also said that they were making a Metroid movie. That would be cool, and so would a Soul Calibur movie (if executed properly), but let's actually see them act upon their announcements of a video game-based movie.

Blargh, I'm gonna go eat some Rice Krispies and watch Madurday on Comedy Central in the dark now.
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