Everly single video adaptation has been awful, bar one or two examples.
Can’t wait for this one.
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Example one: Mortal Kombat 1995
Example two: Tomb Raider 2018
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Super Mario Bros 1993
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Tomb Raider 2001
Resident Evil 2002
Street Fighter ¿1994? The JCVD one
I’m joking about street fighter, but I did love it
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Yeah SF is also a guilty pleasure of mine. Raul Julia steals every scene he is in despite the fact he was dying of stomach cancer during the shooting, he did the movie only because his kids loved the games 
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I feel like we had this same conversation years ago 
. But yes, he was excellent. “For you the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. For me, it was Tuesday.”
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I mean… He actually remembers it was on a Tuesday, so it must´ve been at least a bit special, right? Right??
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Cool action flick with some awesome cinematography/design.
Directed by and starring Dev Patel. Produced by Jordan Peele’s company. Patel also worked on the screenplay.
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One thing I find kinda humorous about the more recent trailer for Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire is that it essentially spoils the outcome of the previous film for anyone who hasn’t seen it or hasn’t heard anything about it. Normally a trailer spoils the big scenes of its own movie, but the latest one plainly states that the last time the two monsters met, it was almost the end of Kong, pretty much giving away to the uninitiated that the previous movie ended with Kong having got his ass beat. Thats kinda funny.
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I think they just assumed that if you have any interest in a new Godzilla/Kong movie you’ve already seen the previous ones and if you haven’t, you’re probably not going to suddenly want to.
I hate that title though.
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How do you think new fans get attracted? This could easily have spoiled the last movie for someone who wasn’t interested before but had their attention caught by the trailers for this one and decided to give it a try.
They get attracted by seeing trailers, news, suggestions from friends, etc. I just don’t think it’s a problem that they spoiled the previous movie with the trailer to this one. Lots of trailers do that to their predecessor movies.
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Didn’t say it was a problem, just think it’s funny.
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Heat 2 has been green lit!
It’ll be interesting for sure bc the book is very much like Godfather II. Half of it happens directly after the first film (1995) and the other half is flashbacks to the late 70s and early 80s.
Rumoured cast so far…,
Adam Driver to play Neal McCauly
(Robert Deniro in the first film)
Austin Butler to play Chris Scherliss
(Val Kilmer in the first film and the main character of the Heat 2 book)
Jeremy Allen White to play Vincent Hanna
(Al Pacino in the first film)
Ana De Armas to play a new character from the book Heat 2.
I hope it works. I loved the film Heat and I loved the book Heat2, but making a sequel that is supposed to pick up right where the first one ended when it’s now actually 28 years later is going to be a challenge.
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Yeah, this is worrying… If they just stick to the prequel bit, that’s fine, but a sequel picking up with the first film’s ending? Hell no. Poor Val can’t even speak, and seeing Pacino at the Oscars the other day, well, he seems like he barely can. And I’d rather not see any more of that de-aging stuff. The Irishman was enough to suffer through.
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The only thing that makes sense to me is an all new cast. If they use actors from the first movie then hopfully they’ll be through cameos only.
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I am not sure but I think the new actors will play both time periods. Just age them up a bit for 1995
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The only movie that could still pull this off, maybe, is if they make a sequel to The Thing that picks up where the first left off, with Kurt Russell and Keith David’s aging being chalked up to severe frost bite before they were rescued. Apply the right makeup and it could work, but again, I can think of no other movie where an immediate continuance after so long could make sense without pulling the viewer out of the experience.
You’d just need movies where the entire main cast is either killed or otherwise made to where their appearance wouldn’t matter. You could do a sequel to Reservoir Dogs that picked up in the parking lot of the warehouse as Mr. Pink leaves. Do it with a far shot so a slightly blurry Steve Buscemi stumbles out of the warehouse, gets gunned down, and then make the whole movie about the cops or introduce a new character who is one of Joe’s associates or bring Alabama up for revenge or something.
Would it be good? Debatable, but it could be done.
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I guess I should have specified: one that picks up where the other left off after decades and explicitly stars the same actors as the same characters in major roles.