#game to movie adaptation

[drewlyyours]

WARNINGS AT WAVERLY ACADEMY FANCAST

ND #21 (w spoilers)

Corine Myers - Corinna Brown

Mel Corbalis - Tanya Reynolds

Leela Yadav - Charithra Chandran

Rachel and Kim Hubbard - Emma Myers

Izzy Romero - Mimi Keene

just lie through your teeth and you'll do fine

MHM, TRT, FIN, SSH, DOG, CAR, DDI, SHA, CUR, CLK, TRN, DAN, CRE, ICE, CRY, VEN, HAU

[skull-pun]

God is dead and we killed him

[chloesimaginationthings]

Abby went into the pit and made a FNAF friend..

[jjadmanii]

film adaptations are all fun and games until ppl start watching the movie without reading the book,,then it just becomes the 10th circle of dante’s hell

[empiireans]

sunset

[inwhichiramble]

Idk if this is just me, but does it seem like the Hunger Games movies left out most of the stuff about food in general?

Maybe I just noticed this because in my first read I was worried that all of them were cannibals, but like… in the movies it seems like they were never actually that hungry. Like, we know that Katniss and Gale have to hunt, and that Peeta gave Katniss the bread, but a lot of the details about just how hungry they were to get to those choices were just… gone. And when they’re in the Capitol on the Victory Tour, they mention the vomit-inducer but it was more of an offhand thing. What got me especially though is that in Mockingjay Pt. 2, their time with Tigris appears to be much shorter, but also… she doesn’t feed them! And from what I remember that was fairly significant in the books, especially considering the position they were in.

In the books, hunger was the driving force of the vast majority of decisions they made. Katniss literally spent a good chunk of her first games desperately searching for water—Haymitch rewarded their performances with food—Katniss described every single thing she eats and primarily characterizes new places based on their food (the Capitol and District 13 especially). TBOSAS supports this even further when you see how even people in the Capitol were starving in the aftermath of the war—that’s why sponsors were added to the game!

I just—the whole series is literally about starvation and what it means to be human, but the movies just focused on love and war.

[prokopetz]

Last night while I was in bed I was thinking about a series where each individual part of it was released in a separate format; for example, Part 1 is released as a book, Part 2 as a movie, Part 3 as a video game, et cetera. Do you know of anything that fits this bill, even somewhat?

It's a fairly common pattern if you count the whole "TV show's plot continued as a series of films" phenomenon. Assuming you've already ruled that out as too obvious (or you're counting film and television as the same medium), the next most common pattern in my experience is "book or film whose direct sequel is a video game" (i.e., in the sense that the video game is a direct continuation, rather than an adaptation of any particular prior instalment), or occasionally vice versa.

The earliest example of the latter I can come up with off the top of my head is Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Green Sky Trilogy, published from 1975 through 1978, whose overarching plot is continued – and ultimately resolved – in the 1984 video game Below the Root.* Other examples include the 1997 video game Parasite Eve (direct sequel to the 1995 novel of the same name, though the English localisation takes numerous liberties to ensure that familiarity with the novel is unnecessary, as it wouldn't be published in English until 2005), or Turbo Kid (video game, 2024), direct sequel to Turbo Kid (feature film, 2015). Going the other direction, you can easily make an argument for Final Fantasy VII (1997), a video game whose direct sequel, Final Fantasy: Advent Children (2005), is an animated feature film.

As for examples spanning three or more separate mediums, I can't think of one off the top of my head, but I'm sure they exist. Maybe someone in the notes can come up with one!

* Interestingly, apart from being one of the earliest examples of a series of novels continued in video game form, Below the Root is often cited as one of the early prototypes of what would become the metroidvania formula; it's really more of a text adventure with light platforming elements, but the outlines are there.

[soratsuart]

I find it incredibly funny seeing some fans complain that the movie wasn't "lore accurate" as if FNAF has ever been consistent with its lore, like

Wow, the movie changes a lot of stuff and is not accurate to what we thought we knew? *looks at The Silver Eyes trilogy* I can't believe that, how horrible *looks at The Silver Eyes trilogy* Who would've thought they'd change stuff that makes us doubt what we know about the series *looks at the fourth fucking closet*

[horygory]

Silent Hill (2006)

[oceanicoleander]

Like a Dragon: The Movie 2007 - Dir. Takashi Miike

[willyhoos]

the mikes.. the michaels, even...

[drewlyyours]

THE CREATURE OF KAPU CAVE FANCAST

ND #15

Dr. Quigley Kim - Ali Wong

Big Island Mike - Taylor Wily

Dr. Malachi Craven - Bradley Whitford

Púa Mapu - Madelyn Cline

You did swallow a lot of water out there

MHM, TRT, FIN, SSH, DOG, CAR, DDI, SHA, CUR, CLK, TRN, DAN

[norvicfiddler]

Mitsurugi Reiji and Naruhodou Ryuuichi | Gyakuten Saiban (Miike Takashi - 2012)

Saitoh Takumi and Narimiya Hiroki

[chloesimaginationthings]

I can’t believe FNAF crying child never got an official name,,

[prokopetz]

The most striking thing about Honor Among Thieves is that it took fifty years for Dungeons & Dragons, the fantasy heist caper game, to get an adaptation which contains an actual heist caper.

[lexosaurus]

tv executives: ah, here is an extremely popular book beloved by so many. it is full of rich lore and extremely deep and complex characters and relationships. it would make such a wonderful movie or television show! tv executives: i know! let's adapt it, but change everything about it and dumb it down because our audience is too fucking stupid to understand this complicated book that they clearly love and cherish. ah yes, we will make millions.