It’s official: Mark Wahlberg will be staring as hero Nathan Drake in the Uncharted movie, based off the popular video game. The actor confirmed the news to MTV.
The success of Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D has had us wondering, what are the top grossing video game movies? Love them or hate them, you can’t deny that a lot of moviegoers forked over their money to watch these video game to movie renditions. Some of the answers shocked even us.
Unless there’s a sudden technology breakthrough brewing that no one knows about, movies will always be missing the core element of video gaming: pressing a button (or providing some other kind of input) to make stuff happen on a screen. Still, film can accomplish things with gaming-centric adaptations that aren’t inherent to the interactive medium. [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, video games have become frequent fodder for movies. In fact, games are so hot in Hollywood right now that producers aren’t even waiting for the title to come out before they decide to adapt it.
