Shadow of the Colossus goes Hollywood

PS2 News | Heading to the big screen.

In a surprise news report from First Showing, one of the PlayStation 2's greats, Shadow of the Colossus has been confirmed to be heading to the big screen. In other words, a movie is in the works.

The game-to-film adaptation is being produced by Kevin Misher, with the screenplay being written by Justin Marks, the writer behind the recent Street Fighter film, and the upcoming Voltron film. A director is yet to be found.

A dream come true for many fans, Shadow of the Colossus is touted by many as one of the best games of all time, and we thought it was pretty awesome too.

As soon as more info arises from this surprise piece of news, we'll let you know.

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Frozencry

4 years ago

And just to add my personal opinion on this:

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...but what the f*** at the screenplay?!!

*bursts into tears*

The world ends if this movie ends up sucking.

RXWAG

4 years ago

as if they wont ruin it. ruiners! ruin everything. it wont stand up to the game them some pretty big shoes to fill..

jomonjin

4 years ago

A dream come true?

ObsoletE

4 years ago

^ or a nightmare?

looking at the names attached, i'm suspecting the latter...

admeister

4 years ago

This is both a great idea and a terrible idea at the same time, much like every other videogame to movie adaptation. The game has a strong following of fans who will jump at the chance to see one of their favorite games become a feature length movie. On the other hand, a lot of the time, a series just doesn't make a good transition from one format to another. Games in particular are a tough source to adapt, since the interactivity of the gaming medium is a large part of its appeal in the first place. After all, watching a guy taking down a giant monster just doesn't have the same appeal that doing it yourself does. But that's how it goes, if it sucks then it sucks, if it's great then it's great, fans have to deal with it no matter the outcome. One thing's for sure though, whatever happens from now on should be interesting to watch.

Pixie

4 years ago

Let's hope they will re-release the game too!! I get questioned for this nearly everyday and will be frustrating if there is a movie....

Fetidchimp

4 years ago

Starring Shia Labeouf

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I understand the folks working on the project are planning to have some of the characters who appear only momentarily in the game, such as those who try to track down and stop Wander, play bigger roles in the film. And despite the game's somewhat "artsy" cred, they're hoping Shadow will be a Lord of the Rings-style fantasy tentpole.

fail

Macka

4 years ago

I want a freaking PS3 sequel already

And I reckon this movie will suck too, judging from the people they have involved...

ObsoletE

4 years ago

Fetidchimp wrote

Starring Shia Labeouf

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fail

surely this is some April Fools joke then?
surely...

reading that makes me want to eat my arms off...

NegativeZero

4 years ago

I'm almost certain that they'll utterly destroy it. Add a ton of dialogue, misrepresent the lead character as some kind of Generic Action Hero, remove any of the ambiguity around what he's doing, expand upon the backstory and explain where he got the sword and who the girl is (thus ruining a lot of the mystique) and overall completely miss the point.

The director's made of just as much fail as the script writer they've attached to this, honestly. He's certainly no Kubrick - his previous credits include the Scorpion King.

I don't know what's going on at Sony. Why would you hand over such an iconic example of what makes games a unique and powerful emergent artform to people who make a living out of churning out formulaic, lowest-common-denominator films.

If they'd attached a good director with a track record of artistic films and a demonstrable knowledge of the game and what makes it so compelling, I might have had some hope. Instead it seems that Hollywood, fresh from defiling my childhood with shitty big-screen reimagining of my favourite 80s franchises, is now poised to **** one of my favourite games as well.

john_solids

4 years ago

yep i think its going to be a big old flop, should just keep it as a game, doesnt need to be made into a movie, same with alot of great games, like Uncharted it really doesnt need a movie, neither did Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter and Mario Bros and the list goes on and on and on.

matrix-cat

4 years ago

I notice that even though there's a report like this for practically every game that comes out, mercifully few actually come to fruition. This needs to be one that doesn't.

Luke Mitchell

4 years ago

Am I the only one who thinks this could actually be kind of cool?

Those battles were oh so epic in their own right that, if done well on the big screen with good special effects, could make the movie worth watching.

Those who are worried it will 'wreck' the experience for themselves can just avoid going to see it, perhaps? You have to look at it on the flipside, in that it may actually draw non-gamers (or even better, gamers who avoided SotC because it looked too 'artsy') to play the game, and if the movie is a success, could actually spawn a re-release or a sequel to the game which otherwise may not have happened.

No guarantees either way with this one, but I for one am excited, if only to see just how they tackle it.

Fetidchimp

4 years ago

It will be the Wii fit movie next.

JP2daMC

4 years ago

A Wii Fit movie you say? <sneaks off to purchase the rights>

Lord Haart

4 years ago

Fetidchimp wrote

Starring Shia Labeouf - fail

I don't think that "fail" even starts to describe it.

If this is an April Fools joke, it's worse taste than War of the Worlds.

Every time a movie like this is announced, a whole species of puppies die. What did humanity do to deserve this?!?

And don't think for a second that this will have anything decent in it. It's simple a symptom of the complete lack of imagination of producers that they can't come out with a new idea, let alone something that actually has a PLOT.

Fetidchimp wrote

It will be the Wii fit movie next.

This.

Fetidchimp

4 years ago

i can see it now, Post apocolytpic wasteland : Shia labeouf has the last remaining wii fit board stolen from him by a bunch of mutants on motorcross bikes. Can he retrieve the talismatic wii board and stop the mutants from handing the wii fit to the last remaining terrorists and restore order to the U.S.A.
Get michael berryman to be in it.

BurnZ

4 years ago

Fetidchimp wrote

It will be the Wii fit movie next.

Cody Giunta

4 years ago

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not Shadow, how dare they even TRY to think of filming it with those people attached.

If only Guillermo Del Toro were to somehow be involved as a director, he's one of the few public figures that has actually played the game and really has an understanding of just why it works.

But no. Just....no.

Ka-Pom

4 years ago

I am happy with my game, I don't need a damn movie. SOTC was and still is one of the greatest PS2 games, a movie (and sequel) would just ruin it.

If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

Michael Kontoudis

4 years ago

I agree with the above poster who said that only Guillermo Del Toro could do this movie justice. I would add that Peter Jackson might also have the chops.

Quite simply, no studio will ever give this the budget or TLC it deserves.

ObsoletE

4 years ago

Luke Mitchell wrote

Am I the only one who thinks this could actually be kind of cool?

it could've been, before they announced who was writing the screenplay, and Shia LeBeouf.

if this was announced with names like Guillermo Del Toro, Peter Jackson, Matthew Vaughn or Alfonso Cuarón in the same breath, i would've been extremely excited, as i think they've proven themselves with similar natured films in the past.

i think the thing that has me most worried is actually the mention of Shia Lebeouf, as all i can think of is him, speaking dialogue at a million miles an hour, boring the colossi to death...

i'll definitely be keeping an eye out for more news, but right now my hype is set to dread.

EDIT: heh, seems a few others had similar ideas for directors as i did, and i missed them before.

Macka

4 years ago

Ka-Pom wrote

I am happy with my game, I don't need a damn movie. SOTC was and still is one of the greatest PS2 games, a movie (and sequel) would just ruin it.

If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

OK a movie definitely isn't needed, but a sequel would be excellent. I'm talking more of a ICO/SOTC connection - in the same world, etc. but a different story.

Jammers

4 years ago

No! No no no no no!

But wait... it's not by Uwe Boll?
And yet... it might make people want to buy the game?

Probably won't have the emotional impact of the game when you start to feel guilty about killing the collossi, but then talking about emotions makes me sound like a faeg unlike the MANLY MAN which I am.

Well then... a timid yes, perhaps? As long as there are no lasers, no super tough protagonist and no major sub-plot going into detail about the colossi or that masked druid kind of guy, then this might be alright.

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Shadow of the Colossus

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Australian Release Date:
  16/02/2006 (Released)
Standard Retail Price:
  $99.95 AU
Publisher:
  Sony Computer Entertainment
Genre:
  Action Adventure
Year Made:
  2006

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