| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
|
|
kevinx59
Joined: 27 Jan 2012
Posts: 959
Location: In sunny California
|
 Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 2:54 pm
|
 |
|
|
Sony doing a movie for a Nintendo property? What the hell? Though if it's CGI I can see it working. Though no live action or live/cg hybrid.
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
LokiReed
Joined: 02 Mar 2013
Posts: 136
|
|
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 3:00 pm
|
|
|
| LUNI_TUNZ wrote: |
| Quote: | | No films adapting Nintendo's franchises have been released since |
Pokémon's 17 movies would like to have a word with you. |
haha, sooo true 
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Primus
Joined: 01 Mar 2006
Posts: 2779
Location: Toronto
|
|
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 3:24 pm
|
|
|
| EricJ2 wrote: |
| enurtsol wrote: | | Leaked emails from Sony? Say it ain't so! |
| Hoppy800 wrote: | | Sony is getting royally exposed on all fronts, it's quite hilarious how crappy their ideas and decision making are. |
I think Sony's, quote-fingers, "hacking leak" (oh yeah, anybody remember David Manning, or those paid "viral posters" on social media?) were supposed to sound cool on the rumor sites, but between this and a leaked "animated Spiderman reboot", it's sure not turning out that way.
(No, really--WHY would hackers go after neat rumor memos, and not identity or financial info?) |
Uh, there's plenty of dirty laundry that has been aired out in this Sony Pictures hack. We've had allegations of racism and sexual harassment, offensive jokes against Obama, internal bickering, unauthorized releases of movies yet to hit cinemas, reasons why it sucks to work there, hilariously amateurish marketing presentations, and oh some much more. Some of that more includes leaks of social security numbers and other personal information.
I wouldn't be surprised if the North Korean hacking angle is the result of Sony trying to get publicity for The Interview, but there's no doubt in my mind that the hack itself is genuine.
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
enurtsol
Joined: 01 May 2007
Posts: 14813
|
|
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 3:26 pm
|
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Polycell
Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Posts: 4623
|
|
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 4:09 pm
|
|
|
| D no Amerika wrote: | | Just not live-action. As simple as that. |
There was a lot going on with that film, but the fact that the plot of the game basically amounted to "The PresidentPrincess has been kidnapped by ninjasturtles. Are you a bad enough dudeplumber to rescue the PresidentPrincess?" certainly didn't help matters. The games have since given the characters personalities and added storylines(the first time being two years later), so that sort of trainwreck's going to be harder to pull off.
| LUNI_TUNZ wrote: | | Pokémon's 17 movies would like to have a word with you. |
Game Freak would like to have a word with you.
| enurtsol wrote: | | Sega is no longer in competition with Nintendo, while Sony is. |
Sony Computer Entertainment is, not Sony Pictures, and I don't see how SP being the one to make a movie is going to hurt SCE.
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
My8th
|
|
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 5:51 pm
|
|
|
| Polycell wrote: |
| D no Amerika wrote: | | Just not live-action. As simple as that. |
There was a lot going on with that film, but the fact that the plot of the game basically amounted to "The PresidentPrincess has been kidnapped by ninjasturtles. Are you a bad enough dudeplumber to rescue the PresidentPrincess?" certainly didn't help matters. The games have since given the characters personalities and added storylines(the first time being two years later), so that sort of trainwreck's going to be harder to pull off.
| LUNI_TUNZ wrote: | | Pokémon's 17 movies would like to have a word with you. |
Game Freak would like to have a word with you.
| enurtsol wrote: | | Sega is no longer in competition with Nintendo, while Sony is. |
Sony Computer Entertainment is, not Sony Pictures, and I don't see how SP being the one to make a movie is going to hurt SCE. |
The Pokémon Company and Creature Inc. would also want a word with you.
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
mdo7
Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 6305
Location: Katy, Texas, USA
|
|
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 6:17 pm
|
|
|
| LUNI_TUNZ wrote: |
| Quote: | | No films adapting Nintendo's franchises have been released since |
Pokémon's 17 movies would like to have a word with you. |
Maybe the article meant live-action film, not animated one. The live-action Metroid film is not going to happen anytime.
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
BadNewsBlues
Joined: 21 Sep 2014
Posts: 6061
|
|
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:11 pm
|
|
|
| Sorraffy wrote: | | maybe the next one should be 3D animated ala Finding Nemo, Peabody and Sherman, Croods, etc etc
Mario is a simple 3D animated guy, keep him in his 3d animated worlds |
Shouldn't that be 2D guy in 2D animated worlds?
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
penguintruth
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Posts: 8468
Location: Penguinopolis
|
|
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:22 pm
|
|
|
|
I want an animated movie based on Super Mario RPG. Mallow, Geno, Booster, etc, would be great additions to a Mario movie.
No origin stories for the main cast. I don't want to know, nor do I care, where Mario came from, how he met Peach, etc. Just adapt Legend of the Seven Stars and don't try to reinvent the wheel. (Though I guess the game kind of did.)
Then they can get to work on a Chrono Trigger movie.
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
enurtsol
Joined: 01 May 2007
Posts: 14813
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:22 am
|
|
|
| Polycell wrote: |
| enurtsol wrote: | |
Sega is no longer in competition with Nintendo, while Sony is. |
Sony Computer Entertainment is, not Sony Pictures, and I don't see how SP being the one to make a movie is going to hurt SCE. |
Yes, but it's still the same family. Kinda like if Disney helps out Marvel's rival DC Comics (yeah DC is owned by Warner Bros).
And yes, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai (an ex-President and still current member of the board of Sony Computer Entertainment) in Japan can still be quite involved with Sony Pictures Entertainment in America, like from even more leaks:
Sony CEO ordered 'The Interview' toned down; Rogen objected
- Sony Corp Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai ordered the film “The Interview” to be toned down after Pyongyang denounced it for depicting the assassination of North Korea’s leader, according to emails apparently stolen from Sony’s Hollywood studio.
The comedy, slated for U.S. release on Dec 25, is about journalists played by Seth Rogen and James Franco who are hired by the CIA to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Pascal noted to Hirai that she had encountered resistance from the film’s creators, including Rogen, who wrote and co-directed it.
In an exchange with Rogen, Pascal said she was in a difficult position because Hirai had asked her to make changes in the film.
“And this isn’t some flunky. It’s the chairman of the entire Sony Corporation who I am dealing (with),” she said.
Rogen responded by promising to remove three of four burn marks on Kim’s face, and reduce the “flaming hair” by 50%. But he said he could not meet all the demands.
Rogen initially told Pascal he objected to requests to modify the death scene, which he said would be viewed as censorship and hurt sales.
By October, however, he delivered what he hoped was the final version.
“This is it!!! We removed the fire from the hair and the entire secondary wave of head chunks,” he said. “Please tell us this is over now.”
| penguintruth wrote: | |
No origin stories for the main cast. I don't want to know, nor do I care, where Mario came from, how he met Peach, etc. |
There's already an origin story.
That's good enough for us! 
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
leafy sea dragon
Joined: 27 Oct 2009
Posts: 7163
Location: Another Kingdom
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:08 am
|
|
|
|
What is that chart about Angry Birds supposed to mean? It doesn't make any sense to me. Are they comparing themselves to Hello Kity, Monopoly, Family Guy, Farmville, and a bunch of other franchises? Why can't something be smart AND strange? And why can't something be cute AND action-packed? Is Monster High really stranger than Pokémon? Why are "Boring" and "Popular" so close to each other? And why are parts of the Ben 10 logo cropped off?
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
EricJ2
Joined: 01 Feb 2014
Posts: 4016
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:49 pm
|
|
|
| leafy sea dragon wrote: | | What is that chart about Angry Birds supposed to mean? It doesn't make any sense to me. Are they comparing themselves to Hello Kity, Monopoly, Family Guy, Farmville, and a bunch of other franchises? Why can't something be smart AND strange? And why can't something be cute AND action-packed? Is Monster High really stranger than Pokémon? Why are "Boring" and "Popular" so close to each other? And why are parts of the Ben 10 logo cropped off? |
I've had marketing surveys where you had to place on a 2D X vs. Y graph, "How does this (ad/campaign) make you feel?", with Bored vs. Inspired as the X and Happy vs. Sad as the Y, and "Curious", "Resentful", "Comforted", etc., all floating around in the intersecting middles.
Thus we can say--like the poetry class in Dead Poets Society before Robin Williams showed up--that you could place on an X&Y graph that as recognized cellphone game franchises go, The Sims were smarter than Family Guy, and Hello Kitty was cuter than Fruit Ninja.
(Well, it's got a good beat and you can dance to it...)
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
leafy sea dragon
Joined: 27 Oct 2009
Posts: 7163
Location: Another Kingdom
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:52 pm
|
|
|
|
Ah, this was a marketing survey result. Makes more sense about why the chart makes no sense.
Also, Bored vs. Inspired and Happy vs. Sad ARE opposites and make sense as axes. I'd just be horribly confused if I got a Smart vs. Strange, Cute vs. Action-Packed chart and probably wind up asking a lot of questions.
Now I want to participate in one of these surveys and see how they respond.
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
mdo7
Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 6305
Location: Katy, Texas, USA
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:45 pm
|
|
|
| enurtsol wrote: |
Yes, but it's still the same family. Kinda like if Disney helps out Marvel's rival DC Comics (yeah DC is owned by Warner Bros).
And yes, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai (an ex-President and still current member of the board of Sony Computer Entertainment) in Japan can still be quite involved with Sony Pictures Entertainment in America, like from even more leaks:
Sony CEO ordered 'The Interview' toned down; Rogen objected
|
Yeah I heard about this from Japan Today, I read something from Yonhap News not long ago:
| Yonhap News wrote: | | No evidence yet of N. Korea's involvement in Sony attack
WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- No evidence has emerged yet that points to North Korea as the cultprit in a recent hacking attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, a senior FBI official was quoted as saying on Dec. 9.
The North has been suspected of involvement in the Nov. 24 cyber-attack on Sony from the beginning because the communist nation has expressed strong anger at a comedy movie that Sony is set to release within the month.
The film, "The Interview," tells the story of two American journalists who land an interview with the North Korean leader in Pyongyang but are then recruited by the CIA to kill him.
Pyongyang has condemned the movie as the "most undisguised" sponsoring of terrorism.
The FBI has been investigating the hacking attack.
"There is no attribution to North Korea at this point," Joe Demarest, assistant director with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's cyber division, said during a cyber-security conference sponsored by Bloomberg Government, according to a Reuters report.
The official did not elaborate.
North Korea has officially denied involvement.
The country's National Defense Commission praised the cyber-attack as a "righteous deed" and the attackers as the "champion of peace."
It also said that the United States should know there are a great number of supporters and sympathizers with the North all over the world, and the "righteous reaction will get stronger to smash the evil doings." |
And I can confirmed The Interview will not get a screening in South Korea according to The Korea Times and Wall Street Journal, which is kinda sad really because I think this film would've been a hit amongst South Korean moviegoers and North Korean defectors living in South Korea. I mean who wouldn't want to see a film where Kim Jong-Un get assassinated.
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
leafy sea dragon
Joined: 27 Oct 2009
Posts: 7163
Location: Another Kingdom
|
|
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:47 pm
|
|
|
|
What I find kind of odd is that Paramount never got attacked over Team America: World Police despite Kim Jong-Il being the film's villain, mocking him relentlessly (he even sings a musical number), and him getting impaled on a German Kaiser helmet.
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
