Heavy Rain film deal looking likely
- Posted May 19th, 2010 at 20:28 EDT by Brian Albert
- 13 Comments
We hear rumors of video game movie deals all the time. Most turn out to be nothing more than small blips that disappear as quickly as they arrived. However, some do survive the speculation phase.
A recent auction for the screen rights pertaining to Heavy Rain is winding down. A deal with Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, the minds behind both Seven and Unique Features film studio, is reported to be nearing finalization. Using their own money, the duo placed the top bid in an auction held by developer Quantic Dream.
While there is indeed potential, many are skeptical that the magic of Heavy Rain would be lost in translation. After all, the game focused on providing a personalized story complete with different outcomes for each person who played it - a feat yet impossible for filmmakers to achieve.
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Dave-The-Rave |
Dave-The-Rave- 3:35pm EDT - May 19th, 2010
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A movie could actually tighten up a lot of the lose ends in the game. Can't wait.
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airhead190
- 3:46pm EDT - May 19th, 2010
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nope. the story is nothing amazing. only the gameplay is for VIDEO GAMES!
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Beasley2K
- 3:47pm EDT - May 19th, 2010
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Put simply, don't do it.
Heavy Rain is a game that attempts to make gamers experience emotion dependent on the unique varying choices that each individual gamer makes in order to achieve a personalised experience and therefore chain of emotions. For a game concentrating on uniqueness, choice, personalisation and emotional value, a film simply cannot be made. The play-style and the way in which the game is experienced is unique, and therefore cannot be replicated in a film.
Quantic Dream emphasised the concepts of choice within this game, so making it into a moviewould just be stupid - game-to-movie adaptations are poor, and being as they stressed over te uniqueness of the sequence of events that will unfold for each player, surely they know this better than anyone. Making a movie would be a stupid move. Quantic Dream are a company that listen to their cosumers, so I believe that if many people are against the idea of a Heavy Rain movie, it won't be done. The essence and values of this game cannot be captured in a movie. Even if a movie is produced, the emotion, choices, personalisation and uiqueness of this game will not be present.
This movie may be produced, and it may have the same name, but it will most certainly not be Heavy Rain.
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DreDayDetox |
That's for me to know and you to find out.- 5:22pm EDT - May 19th, 2010
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@2: Like you would know anything about a decent story.
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mcav
- 6:27pm EDT - May 19th, 2010
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Excellent story which screamed movie from the moment I played through it.
The characters are well realised with depth and purpose. Even knowing who the origami killer is, would not prevent this from being an excellent film with particular focus on Ethan's struggle, Jayden's progress through the story and [spoiler deleted]
Green light this as soon as possible. You have the cast, with the possible exception of Jayden. While I liked the actor, if they could hire Duchovny, he'd play Jayden even better.
They also need better actors for the kids...
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OneFlow
- 9:22pm EDT - May 19th, 2010
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Well, Heavy Rain is great, but I can't imagine this working out as a movie at all. The game is basically an enhanced movie, due to the power of videogames added to the formula. Making it a movie would only remove the factor that makes this so special. The gaming aspect allows for deeper connections to the characters and it allows for the game to contain many more details than a movie could. When you have to make your story compact enough for a movie, you are usually not able to include as much content as you can include in a game. (Especially because people may be willing to play 10h+, but they are not willing to watch that long)
Also, there was no game like this before, but there are certainly tons of movies with stories like this one and there's no reason to think that this one will surpass them.
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