It's a truism that good video game adaptations are hard to come by, but as long as studios smell franchise potential they'll keep trying. That's turning out to be good news for fans, as "trying" in this case means hiring interesting talents to tackle favorite titles. One of the particularly intriguing ones coming up is…
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Watching Sinister, I never would have guessed that the creators -- director Scott Derrickson and co-writer C. Robert Cargill (aka Massawyrm at AICN) -- would move on to tackle one of the most popular video game hits of the past twenty years. The game series in question is Deus Ex, a set of first-person shooters that…
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Yesterday the big news was that Michael Fassbender will star in and produce a film based on the Assassin's Creed game series. That led to hopes that Assassin's Creed could become the first movie based on a video game that has any merit beyond the base spectacle of recreating game situations with real actors. That's…
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