Oscarweb Round-up: Altair and Ezio find a home at Sony
Also: Emily Watson talks a little 'War Horse' and River Phoenix's disowns his final film
Here's hoping "Assassin's Creed" doesn't go the way of "Prince of Persia."
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I make this the lead story here only because it's Friday and I'm a huge fan of the gaming series. Not awards related in the slightest, but I really hope they don't screw it up. It looks like Sony has acquired the film rights to Ubisoft's "Assassin's Creed." Ubisoft has been really careful about who these rights went to and I hope that means they are being delicate with the story, because I happen to think the story of "Assassin's Creed" -- even if portions amount to little more than boiled down ancient alien theory -- has a lot of potential. Of course, we'll likely get some kind of bottled up distillation that loses what's great about the narrative, but a guy can hope, right? [Variety]
Jude Law, who plays a smarmy investigative journalist in "Contagion," defends investigative journalists. [TheTelegraph ]
Emily Watson talks "Oranges and Sunshine" and a little bit on "War Horse." [Collider]
River Phoenix's family wants nothing to do with the release of his final, unseen film "Dark Blood." [Deadline]
Lynne Ramsay talks "We Need to Talk About Kevin" across the pond. [The Guardian]
"Martha Marcy May Marlene" actress Elizabeth Olsen on nudity, photo shoots and emulating Emma Stone. [Vulture]
The film's director, meanwhile, talks researching cults. [24 Frames]
With "The Rum Diary" on the way, a curated guide to Hunter S. Thompson's contributions to the bunny pages. [Playboy]
Anne Thompson offers her analysis of the Gotham Award nominations. (More on those later today in the podcast.) [Thompson on Hollywood]
Jeff Wells apologizes to Roland Emmerich for epic-film-bashing, really responds to "Anonymous." [Hollywood Elsewhere]
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October 21, 2011 at 11:54AM EST Reply to CommentI'm still thinking the best videogames movies can't easily be made out of action videogames like Assassin's Creed or God of War or Metal Gear or whatever - how do you top them through film by removing player interaction? It's already a handicapped endeavour.
But still, here's hoping it'll be good! Because otherwise, we'll still have to cling on to Mortal Kombat from 1995 as our best videogame movie ever... and the last one that's actually been somewhat good-ish :(
Mortal Kombat Legacy is pretty good, though.
Liz
October 21, 2011 at 5:30PM EST Reply to CommentI'm glad to hear that about the Phoenix family. The thought of approaching Joaquin Phoenix to dub his brother seemed unbelievably distasteful to me. I can't believe the people behind the movie ever thought that was a good idea.
DylanS
October 24, 2011 at 3:18PM EST Reply to CommentI think the key to making a video game work as a film has to involve two things. Trusting the story of the games and finding the right director.