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Just like the seemingly unending comic book movie craze, Hollywood loves to seek out a form of film that it might turn into the subsequent big cultural touchstone. Through the years, we have seen movies based on video games attempt to achieve that level, with various levels of success. We have seen adaptations of games for a long time, but, to be fair, lots of those were awful adaptations. Lots of them missed the purpose of the source material and were clumsily executed–although we’ll all the time have a soft spot for the 1994 Street Fighter movie–but recently, we have seen some big changes on this genre.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie took the world by storm when it was released, earning an obscene amount of money on the box office, while the Uncharted and each Sonic the Hedgehog movies were also successful. With fresh recent IPs to option, dozens of video game movies have been announced over the past couple of years, and while production is moving swiftly on several of them, many more seem like trapped in the bottom levels of development hell.
We’re hopeful that we’ll see some progress on these long-in-development movies, but until Hollywood says otherwise, here’s a deep dive into the video game movies that may very well be showing at your local cinema in the long run. If there’s not an attached release date or it isn’t a sequel, though, take into accout these could also just never be made ultimately.