Sony is working on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 movies - eviltoast
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  • Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Helldivers is Starship Troopers (the movie version). So the movie is going to be more Starship Troopers?

    Man, Sony is astroturfing the fuck out of Horizon. Look at that Lego game no one bought and that pointless remake of the first game.

    So two pointless movies. Thanks, Sony.

  • Cris16228@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    I bet you’ll need a Sony account to watch it in any cinema around the world.

    Streaming service? Link your Sony account and you can watch them! Don’t worry, you’ll get a cool skin doing it ^for just $4.99^

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      2 days ago

      HZD actually has a fantastic story and a great setting. With some recent successful game movies, I can see this one actually being good. But does Sony have much of a track record here? Uncharted was bad.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    Starship Troopers exists so any video game movie adaptation will be compared to it. Unless Paul Verhoven is directing, it is a big uphill battle to win any comparisons.

    And it’s Sony, so, good luck? They can’t seem to understand what makes a movie interesting to want to watch. They can’t cut a good trailer but their actual ability to produce and execute movie production is just bad. They can’t make a comic book movie that isn’t produced by others.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 days ago

    A Horizon movie could work, so long as it’s not going to adapt one of the game’s stories, and works instead as an expansion of the world rather than a retread.

    Helldivers… I’m not seeing it. I’m not seeing it at all. It’ll simply be off-brand Starship Troopers. Besides, what story is there to tell? The game’s direction is partially, in some small part, driven by the way players react to alerts events. You’re not going to capture that in a movie.

    • Cris16228@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Tbh a movie/anime/TV series about Horizon is something I’d probably say “wow that’s cool” but nothing much. This only because I love HZD and HFW

      Just like Nier got their anime recently. I still have to watch it but I kind like the idea

  • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Wasn’t there a Horizon show that was cancelled recently?

    • simple@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, that confused me as well. It seems like they’re making a movie instead.

  • Twinklebreeze @lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    2 days ago

    Sony can’t make a good movie to save it’s life. I’m amazed they can make good games still. Every other division is hot garbage.

  • Paradachshund@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I think both of these could be great movies, but could also be done extremely poorly (especially helldivers). I hope they get people who like and understand the IPs for these ones.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    I like the story, it’s a neat concept. But a Sony movie about it is probably the last thing I’m interested in.

    Unless it stars Dakota Johnson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Jared Leto.

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      TIL who Aaron Taylor-Johnson is and that he’s continuing the tradition of having two Marvel characters

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        He’s a 50-50 actor. When he’s good, like in Kickass and Bullettrain, he’s real good. But when he’s bad he’s absolutely horrible, like Godzilla and every superhero movie he’s been in.

        Edit. I want to add that I didn’t even realize it was him in Bullet Train until half way through. He’s pretty entertaining in it.
        The movie itself suffers from a “im sooo smart and clever” syndrome that some movies have. Johnson and whoever played the girl are the good parts of that movie.