It’s no secret that veteran movie and television producer Avi Arad has played an important role — possibly one of the most important — in bringing comic book movies to the point they are today. Not only did the former CEO and founder of Marvel Studios help bring Marvel out of bankruptcy in the late ’90s, but his efforts to bring Marvel superheroes from the page to the screen paved the way for much of the characters’ rise to mainstream prominence in recent years.
Over the weekend, Arad was in town promoting his latest page-to-screen project, “The Amazing Spider-Man,” a reboot of the popular Marvel Comics character’s big-screen franchise that casts Andrew Garfield (“The Social Network”) as wall-crawling, web-slinging nerdy superhero Peter Parker. Along with telling IFC all about the new film — which is directed by “500 Days of Summer” filmmaker Marc Webb — Arad also shared some thoughts with IFC about the other genre he’s been mining for movie projects lately: video games.
It's been officially over 2,500 days since The Elder Scrolls 6 was revealed, and fans are still waiting for more than a logo and a mountain range.
It will come out in another 1000-2000 days or so. I’d rather they remake Morrowind. After they added quest arrows, sprint button, making stats lesser and the big nerfs to spells Elder Scrolls has been too simplified. They could change that with ES6 but I don’t have much faith in modern Bethesda. I would love to be wrong
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I’m hoping Xbox Showcase will be where the Remake gets announced… freaking all this stuff with FF9’s anniversary and still nothing on the Remake…
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"We have a great director,” said Arad of the film. “So in anticipation, I’m accumulating the kind of games that I’m personally interested in from a story standpoint. They have to have a story.”"
It's not about the director...hell you could have Steven Spielberg attached and I would still have doubts....I mean honestly has Neil actually played the games, he says he has but in interviews it sounds like he dosen't know what he's talking about. It's about picking the right actors for the parts and having a good story that stays true to the games...basicaly using source material not trying to change everything. Honestly you could take Amy Hennigs script and tweak it during the gameplay moments and unneccesary parts and you could be set to go.
Hopefully they'll get Nolan North to play Drake and then Emily and Richard to play their parts aswell.
i do they get the people who did the video game to do the movie, but if not can i say to use Nathan Fillion to be drake
People need to watch lockout before they pick there drake http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Guy Pearce could definitely do justice to Drake....but he'd need to bulk down a bit. He was huge in lockout!
Nolan North and Nathan Fillion are both too old to play Drake now. It just wouldn't be believable and would fall flat.
Emily and Richard, on the other hand, would be perfect.
Drake is an athletic guy, you can't just throw a guy in his 40's into the role, especially if they're thinking of it becoming a franchise. I love both actors and would love to see them in other stuff, but their time has passed for this movie.
Edit: After watching that Lockout trailer, I think Guy Pearce could definitely pull it off. He's still old, though, but at least he's athletic and can pull off the humor.