Metroid Movie Rumors Resurface

[ulaoulao]

This close-cropped image, purported to be of a poster for a Metroid movie coming next year, proves absolutely zilch. But a Swedish blog says the director John Woo will announce such a film at Comic-Con, now underway through Sunday in New York City.

Metroid was optioned for a film deal way back in 2004, according to the Hollywood Reporter. And then, nothing. I can't get this Swedish blog to load, but the date on this poster — if it's European format, that's February 5, 2009 and that's a Thursday. If it's US, that's May 2 (prime blockbuster season — have we ever had a video game adaptation release in May? I don't follow that closely) and that's a Saturday. US releases typically open on Wednesdays or Fridays.

http://kotaku.com/381784/metroid-movie-rumors-resurface

[Desert Drifter]

Even if or not to ever come to the big screen, "gaming" based movies are always known to be "instant flops" due to lack of involvement of storyline and character depth which "comic" based ones succeed upon, as we seen in "Super Mario Bros" (with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo) and of "Final Fantasy", "Resident Evil", Doom", etc. - as a few examples of the case. But the real question sets in: "playing" and "controlling" the "epic" is a lot more fun then just "watching" it on the big screen, but other then the fact, a Metroid movie directed by John Woo would be pretty neat, though him "designing" upon a gaming consol instead of "directing" upon film would be the ultimate treat.