Lost Planet movie possibly in the pipeline

by Terrence Stasse { Jun 17th 2008 at 11:30PM }

With big budget action flicks making all sorts of money this summer, and with Hollywood's constant searching for the next big thing, we shouldn't be to surprised to hear that another videogame movie could be coming our way. Honestly though, this time our surprise has less to do with that fact in and of itself, and more to do with the details surrounding it.

Over at the Evil Avatar forums, the news was posted that David "Solid Snake" Hayter is currently in talks with Warner Bros. to write a movie based on, of all things, Lost Planet. While we shouldn't forget that Hayter does have writing expierience, (X-Men 1 & 2) we just can't imagine that there's enough meat on a Capcpm third-person-shooter's bones to actually flesh things out into a feature film. Plus, if this ends up getting off the ground, what kind of significance will the IP have by the time the movie is actually released? Oh well, in Solid Snake we trust.

Tags: capcom, david-hayter, lost-planet, lost-planet-colonies, solid-snake

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

b33eazy @ Jun 18th 2008 12:39AM

Xbox360 FANBOY POST THIS THE OPUS IS NOW BEING
RELEASED. They are replacing the RRoD 360s now.

http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=437918

T-BoNe254 @ Jun 18th 2008 12:56AM

good timing, my 360 gave me rrod the other day (although it works now). So when it inevitably does break i can get the new chip set...

UNSCleric @ Jun 18th 2008 12:56AM

The Lost Planet story is plenty good enough for a movie. It was in my top 5 for 2007.

Terrence Stasse @ Jun 18th 2008 1:40AM

Like someone at Evil Avatar said:

They already did a Lost Planet movie, it was the basically the first part of Empire Strikes Back.

I keed.

It could be good, it's just that unless there is a sequel or something to keep the IP in the public mindset over the next 18+ months, it could lose some relevance.

UNSCleric @ Jun 18th 2008 1:47AM

I never saw any Star Wars movies, so I don't know.

Xoviet chiK @ Jun 18th 2008 1:49AM

Good marketing, no argument there...

But I have to wonder, if the product (in this case a film based on a video game/series) would be better served without such strong attachments to a well established license, rather actually do the work for what would be the next game in the series. Then, letting the series pick up from there, with the film taking on the full weight of the normal timed cash-in products that accompany most higher profile media releases on it's own. Of course, ample development time and funds would be a necessity...

Not that I don't want Lost Planet 2. Of course I do, Colonies just isn't enough to sate my desires for what could and should be the best game on Xbox LIVE!