http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/22/michael-fassbender-to-star-in-assassins-creed-adaptation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=michael-fassbender-to-star-in-assassins-creed-adaptation By Clayton Davis - Home for Academy Awards, Oscars, and all other award show predictions Thu, 23 May 2013 00:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/22/michael-fassbender-to-star-in-assassins-creed-adaptation/#comment-45117 Frank Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:29:07 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=35692#comment-45117 Video game adaptations don’t and will never work. The prospective fans of the respective movie will never be able to connect to the picture because they spent so many hours in control of the character and are forced to relinquish that control to another. The intimacy of the gamer with the character don’t translate. Adaptations succeed when the level of intimacy is increased as a result of the translation. That won’t ever occur from game to film unless you take a shrouded, little known character and humanize him on the big screen forcing the shroud to dissipate and the viewer to empathize.
Otherwise, video game film adaptations will become successful when people enjoy actively watching someone else play a video game.

]]> http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/22/michael-fassbender-to-star-in-assassins-creed-adaptation/#comment-41684 Nicole Melkonian Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:12:11 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=35692#comment-41684 The degree of control Ubisoft is exercising over this is very promising. Prince of Persia wasn’t horrible but not too memorable either and didn’t capitalize fully on the potential the game. I hope they don’t compromise too much especially in terms of budget. Kind of like how Gore Verbinski gave up the Bioshock adaptation idea due to his wishes to actually build sets instead of relying heavily on CG. That was disappointing but I’m glad he walked away before they messed up that amazing opportunity. I’m excited to see where this goes.

]]> http://www.awardscircuit.com/2012/10/22/michael-fassbender-to-star-in-assassins-creed-adaptation/#comment-41335 Antonio Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:51:45 +0000 http://www.awardscircuit.com/?p=35692#comment-41335 The screenplay of Assassin’s Creed is one of the best I’ve ever seen in a video game. That could be an incredible blockbuster in the lineage of smart movies such as Inception or Minority report.
I’m personally sick of Hollywood’s blockbusters with superheroes or bad aliens and something fresh will be more than welcome.
I think there is enough material for the academy to show some interest in it.
It’s clear that Ubisoft doesn’t wan’t to mess it up like they did with “Prince of Persia” however it didn’t had half Assassin’s Creed potential .

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