Capcoms Lost planet to become a movie

Thought I would share this, my favorite game is going to become a movie. Brought to you buy the same creators of the recent Iron man and incredible hulk.

http://www.tomsgames.com/us/2008/07/16/lostplanet_movie/

A videogame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game press conference is usually composed of company executives introducing videos and lead designers playing through live demos. Capcom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capcom , however, on the opening day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_Day of E3 2008 bucked the typical videogame trend and went with the traditional press conference that is commonplace for the movie business - and for good reason too.

Capcom used its press conference time on Tuesday for one product only, and it wasn't Street Fighter IV, Bionic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionics Commando, or any other videogame - it was for a Lost Planet movie. Key figures at the press conference to talk about the birth of the upcoming Lost Planet movie included famed producers Avi Arad I-Spy and Ari Arad, Capcom's Keiji Inafune and Haruhito Sakamoto, and screenwriter David Hayter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hayter .

Both Avi Arad and Ari Arad are known for successfully producing movies based on Marvel properties, most recently "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk ." David Hayter may be best known to the gaming crowd for his legendary voice work as Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid series, but he is a screenwriter first with the original "X-Men" and "X2: X-Men United" movie scripts to his credit.

Avi Arad spoke at length regarding his confidence in the Lost Planet property, stating that it is composed of a world that would translate well to film. If one thing is for sure, the Arads have a decent track record of translating comic books into film, so hopefully the same sensibilities will carry over for a videogame's jump to the silver screen.

Hayter is another key ingredient in the Lost Planet movie team with his experience with adapting an existing intellectual property for film (as seen in the first "X-Men"). Hayter is also in a unique position for a screenwriter with his knowledge of the Japanese game company culture, thanks to his work with Konami and Kojima Productions for the Metal Gear Solid series.

Inafune expressed through a translator his pleasure that Lost Planet would be turned into a motion picture, as he always envisioned that the game would fit perfectly as a big budget movie. Seeing Lost Planet come to life as a movie is a dream fulfilled, he said.

Although Capcom's previous movie outings have been a mixture of failure ("Street Fighter") and success ("Resident Evil"), the combination of the Arads producing, Hayter's writing and the Japanese imagination for massive robots, Lost Planet appears to have the a good pedigree. The Lost Planet movie is tentatively scheduled for a 2011 release from Warner Bros.

 

Lost Planet is really worth a movie.