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Lost Planet to Cost $150-200 Million to Make?

Capcom's "head of character contents business" Toshihiro Tokumaru was interviewed by his company, and while he talked a bit about the "Resident Evil" franchise and upcoming Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, he made a big reveal about Warner Bros. Pictures' big screen adaptation of Capcom's Lost Planet:
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Published: 303 days 2 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Gaming | Industry News
 
 

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Jamegohanssj5 - 303 days 2 hours ago
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NO! Game was garbage, so I expect the movie to be the same.

TGSI
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IdleLeeSiuLung - 302 days 15 hours ago
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Lost Planet was a great game. To each its own I guess....
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ThanatosDMC - 302 days 14 hours ago
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Great action game. Not so good story but acceptable. Last upgraded mech you get becomes somewhat of an Orbital Frame (ZOE) though, but with terrible controls.
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jadenkorri - 302 days 10 hours ago
1.3 - MOVIE?
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solidt12 - 302 days 9 hours ago
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Lost Planet was really good, You probably didn't even play it. With a movie budget like this the movie will probably be a Sci-Fi hit.
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Tempist - 302 days 7 hours ago
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The producers are aware that there wasn't much of a strong story to the game correct? Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy Japanese games with their quirky stories, but I also remember that nearly every capcom videogame to movie addaption has turned out really really bad.

Who still remembers Street Figher with Van Damme?
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mquirozz - 303 days 2 hours ago
2 - WTF ?
They're BS'n Im not gonna fall for that load of hype.
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outlawlife - 303 days 2 hours ago
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this game was hug in japan for some reason, anytime you played online it was always a bunch of japanese people

and honestly for a big time special effect movie that isn't that much

spiderman 3 cost something like 250 million to produce, the alst pirates of the carribean was around 300 mill, dark knight was around 190 million, iron man was 140 million

i dont doubt that figure one bit, 100 million for a movie that is guaranteed to have a lot of highend cg in it is actually not that much
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Jamegohanssj5 - 303 days 2 hours ago
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It's Capcom dude.

TGSI
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outlawlife - 303 days 2 hours ago
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your point being?

if Avi Arad is the producer they have serious bank to play with, he does all of marvels movies

he also owns the film rights to mass effect and a few other games, the guy is taking games to the movies like comics have been for the last few years

given his list of credits i'd say hes been rather successful
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bunbun777 - 303 days 1 hour ago
4.3 - Seriously
Outlaw life--you got your shi-- on lockdown.

Maybe its the avatar, but once again you bring the realness to N4G.
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pwnsause - 302 days 23 hours ago
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the game wasnt so bad, but it could of been better.
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stix079 - 302 days 20 hours ago
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i thought it was a top game.
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Hiruma Youchi - 302 days 16 hours ago
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Yall should stop making Movies out of games yall always do it wrong. The 1st RE was ok but the 2 others were bad. and wussup with Fox's dragonball? and the new SF chun-li thing yall at capcom havent learned from the 1st one ?
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kewlkat007 - 302 days 16 hours ago
7 - I actually enjoyed the game...
underrated IMO.
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Chaos Striker - 302 days 15 hours ago
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Considering the fact that Avi Arad is producing the movie AND David Hayter (X-Men, co-wrote X2, 1st script of Watchmen) is writing the script with the add-in of a flexible budget such as this, I really don't see how this can fail...I guess it can fail with casting, but we'll just have to wait and see. Everything so far has this movie pointing in the right direction.
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Hellsvacancy - 302 days 12 hours ago
9 - I posted this in the tips yesterday
Wot does that mean for me im a N4G trainee at the mo
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dazzalfc - 302 days 11 hours ago
10 - hmmm...
I always worry when people decide to do Film version of computer games. I was highly annoyed with the job that was done on the Resident Evil films.

Lost Planet was a good game, not great, but enjoyable. Hopefully this will be one game to movie conversion that will go reasonably well
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kingme71 - 302 days 8 hours ago
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Risky. Most game to movies are poorly done. Not sure if they will ever turn the corner like comics have done, but that's a decent amount of cash on a movie that may not recoup it.
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Mad_Rhetoric - 302 days 8 hours ago
12 - LP rules
I loved the game
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Dogswithguns - 302 days 8 hours ago
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i had so much fun playing online this game.... i love riding on the megs.
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jib - 302 days 6 hours ago
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agree with all those that loved the game. this game was underrated
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Norad6 - 302 days 5 hours ago
15 - Don't be too quick to judge...
David Hayter (yes, Solid Snake himself) wrote the script to the movie. He also wrote the script for X-men 2 (the best x-men movie IMO) and Watchmen.

P.S. He also played the game while writing it.

Interview Link: http://g4tv.com/e32008/vide...
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samura - 302 days 4 hours ago
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I hope that it works, for CAPCOM's sake.

I love CAPCOM. Until now, the best dev of this gen, in my opinion.
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bpac123456789 - 301 days 22 hours ago
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200 million dollars (double the cost of the dark knight) for a movie adaptation of a game that wasn't all that great in the first place? the word recession must mean absolutely nothing to warner.
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