According to Hollywood film and television website, The Tracking Board, Capcom’s 1987 video game character Mega Man is reportedly on his way to the big screen, courtesy of a collaboration between 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment – with development apparently already underway.
Being classed as one of the most iconic video game characters and series of all-time, if true, the risks involved here are quite high. We’ll use the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie adaptation as a reference point, one that although it has become a cult hit with fans, Nintendo itself prefers not to acknowledge.
David Ready and Michael Finfer are allegedly overseeing the Mega Man movie project on behalf of Chernin Entertainment, while Peter Chernin produces it. Combined, the team has a history of sci-fi action films including the reboot of the Planet of the Apes franchise under their belt. Mike Ireland and Ryan Horrigan are also reportedly overseeing the project on behalf of Fox.
If this is in fact true, how would you feel about the Mega Man being next in line to receive the silver screen treatment? Let us know in the comments.
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I just can't trust Fox with movies anymore. This might not end good for the blue bomber.
Video game adaptation ? What could possibly go wrong...
In all seriousnes, when will the torment end this poor little guy has to endure ?
How long until Adam Sandler's boys get involved?
Just make a stupid Mega Man game already Capcom. :/
Weren't a Sonic movie supposed to come out or something? Or was it cancelled?
They should have worked with Blue Sky Studios instead. They're doing a great job of respecting Charlie Brown, so they could've given this movie respect too.
I'm hoping they don't go the route of live-action. I think if it was animated in a style to the 2009 Astro Boy movie, we could be in for a treat.
Maybe it'll starred bad box art Mega Man.
They really need to stop this. Hollywood shouldn't touch video game IP until they can manage something tasteful and entertaining. Surely all the money lost on these projects has to be off-putting.
I'm all for taking risks but no one there seems able to condense or adapt available lore/stories with insisting they re-write every last detail. That godawful Dragon Ball movie springs to mind (though manga/anime rather than game but, you know).
Sincerely hope it's not live-action...
@EvanChambers
+1
The fanboy in me wants it to be awesome, but the realist in me thinks it will suck.
And still not a new game in sight
Is this going to be live action or the much rumoured new animated series? Either way I'd imagine we'll finally have a new game to tie in to the project whatever form it takes.
Finally, the mega man from the 1st games box art gets the respect he deserves!
I'm sticking my head in the sand on this one.
Let me know when it's all over.
@DarthNocturnal CG/Tradtional Animation can't save this movie from being bad. If it's made in the west the writing will be garbage either way. We'll end up with some trendy Dreamworks-wannabe animation and shitty tween humor throughout the whole thing, instead of anything decent or serious.
Oooohhhh no. No no no. Ratchet and Clank because it is being written by the series writer, animated with help from the developers and overseen by said team.
This? Where is Capcom? How well can this possibly go?
@CTMike I agree.
Though I never played a game of the series I always found the design sympathetic. I would love to see an animated movie for it and I think you could make a great one about Mega Man.
I cannot judge whether those companies can make a good movie, but I sure hope so.
@Tiefseemiez If they use the lore creatively and make it animated, I will pay the money to see it no doubt, but I don't think I'm alone in having zero faith in anything live-action when it comes to something like this.
Having said that there's always the potential for 'so-bad-it's-good' once we can get over the butchering of another cool IP.
Hopefully the collection sells so well they do the rest then consider a new game otherwise we might have to rely on a movie tie-in...
Because the Internet simply loved Pixels so much....
I wanna see this done right..
I hope they're all familiar with the series enough to pull it of properly.
They really need to go the CG animated route for these movies... they really do.
I hope Nintendo plans to do CG family films for mario..
Live action rarely works for this.
And pretty sure it will be sh*t.
So... How long until this megaman project gets canceled, too?
That's what we're all thinking right? Just me? Okay.
I have mixed feelings. I say its gonna suck, then again its Megaman so i wanna jump and say yeah but i cant
If this is true then great. A Mega Man movie would be cool. As long as it's a good movie I don't mind. I still want a new Mega Man game though.
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Aftet Craptastic4 I can't do it.
Oh boy...this isn't going to end well...I'd like to be proven wrong, but I don't this is going to end well.
@MitchVogel @Megumi
Just wait for the video game adaptation of the movie. I'm sure it will be amazing. I mean, there will be some cosmetic changes to match the movie universe of course. He'll be a dark color instead of blue, because dark is in now. He'll be carrying a gun instead of having one for an arm because a gun arm makes the sex scenes too hard to do. And of course it will be a battle against terrorists and not Dr. Wiley. Also, he'll spend most of the game not wearing his helmet because we'll need to see the actors face unobscured. And he won't be a robot anymore. He'll be a guy in a robot suit. But really aside from a few minor details it'll be a great game. Also he won't really do a lot of platforming. It'll be more of a FPS. So, cool. New movie, better games. Great.
Did anybody else here love the Mario movie? Lol. Yeah...Im scared for the blue bomber though. Just give us MML3 already!
dont...please...just dont...dont take mega man from us...you killed before hollywood...please...just dont do this...i'm scared...i'm...i...
Sheesh, everyone is always so pessimistic when it comes to these adaptations. Gather the right people and you'll have yourself a winner of a movie, so let's just hope that happens. With many video game movies currently in the works, I think something good will come out of it. People try their best you know.
Shouldn't a game be first on their to-do list? I'm sure if Capcom is involved then it may be good.
There are two things that tend to ruin video game movies. Live action and bad writing. If the story is good, and it's animated or at least CGI/live action, it should be somewhat decent.
And they just released Hitman Agent 47
I'd like to see the costume design inspired by the artwork for Mega Man 1, 2, 9, 10.
How about documenty film about the development of the next Mega Man game. That would be much better.
I rather watch the Mighty No. 9 movie..........NOT!
Fox has done a great job Tarnishing Marvel series like Daredevil,fantastic 4,Punisher and x-men, so why stop with comic book's?
How bout an actual game first?
Hast the entire lexicon of game-based films taught studios nothing?
Lets fire up the PsTV and watch Day of Sigma.
Lets fire up the PsTV and watch Day of Sigma.
This is something Capcom needs to put the kibosh on. Mega Man doesn't deserve that!
@SebCroc
Because most people can name maybe 2 good vg movies (Mortal Kombat and Wreck-It Ralph) and maaaybe 1 or 2 decent ones. (I personally like Street Fighters goofiness) XD
And no, people don't always do their best. Let me direct you to Hollywood's latest upcoming atrocity, Jem and the Holograms. shakes head sadly
If Fox were to get, say, the same people that did either the Book of Life (Reel FX seems the most likely choice) or a combination of multiple studios (Fantastic Mr. Fox's pairing of Indian Paintbrush and Reel FX was smart) it could be quite entertaining.
Licensed properties have been doing better (Superman in the upcoming VS film, Batman's Nolan trilogy, Webb bringing legitimacy back to Spider-Man, Marvel's handling of their cinematic properties and Lego's rather successful Lego Movie are all a testament to the shift in Hollywood film adaptations) it just takes the right director and an inspired cast.
Mega Man absolutely deserves to be animated (the property doesn't suit live action and no one wants to see another Tekken or Street Fighter come of this.
My money is on Reel FX (who is huge after The Book of Life) re-teaming with Indian Paintbrush for character modelling and backgrounds.
I'd like to see Inafune brought in as a special advisor, but with MNo9 and Red Ash failing so spectacularly, I'd be happy with that not happening too. At least Capcom had the guts to go back to film after how terrible Street Fighter was (the anime was actually pretty decent, but every one of the films have been horrid. I watched the Legend of Chun-Li as it showed up in the local video store a few months after Michael Clarke Duncans' death; it too was a disastrous effort. Don't get me started on the KoF film either..)
Of course, what could possibly go wrong? I bet not only will this film be so bad it makes you want to hammer nails into your own eyes rather than watch it all the way through, but there'll also be a horrible tie-in game made by some game studio you never heard of that feels nothing like a Mega Man game. BAH!
The dream:
3 films by the previously mentioned Reel FX / Indian Paintbrush squad.
Introduce Wily and Light as up and coming scientists, have some crazy accident splinter their relationship. Advance 20 years and Wily is building a robotic army. Humanity has been reduced to a few million and Light unleashes Mega Man.
He wins against Zero, but is badly hurt. End first film.
Vile assembles Wily's stragglers 'from the shadows' and assembles them against the humans. Mega Man loses to Vile and disappears. Zero saves the day, but is outmatched. Wily is critically injured during a robot uprising (with Vile finally emerging) and uploads his consciousness into a prototype Sigma. Sigma has his own 'spark' and ends up overpowering Wily to challenge Vile for leadership of the robots.
Now called Reploids (as they can fix and create new soldiers without human assistance) Vile's forces stand-off against Sigma's. Zero sets off to fight against them but is overpowered. Mega Man saves the day at the last minute, revealing his new X armor. There's a brief victory where the good guys drive off the bad guys (due to the bad guys not co-operating).
The third film starts in a peaceful time, but the Reploids emerge with a vengeance. Sigma defeats Vile in single combat and the latter pledges his support. A final battle arrives with Zero dying at Vile's hands (Vile also dies during this battle) before passing his Z-Saber to Mega Man, who uses a powered up version of the famous beam sword to defeat Sigma once and for all.
Now, I'm obviously no screenwriter, but that's how I would like for the story to play out, should a movie be released at all.
I can only imagine the kind of art style those two companies could come up with for a project like this and the amount of enemies they would have access to (Shadow Man is really my only must, though there are plenty of options to choose from).
Make it 110 minutes long, cut some unnecessary sap and make it one film. I just have the idea in my head to establish the Blue Bomber as a force without the X armor before introducing the villains that make it a necessary upgrade.
A free roaming Mega Man game (think big, like Mario 64 big) with better platforming, a great camera, solid controls, crisp anime style graphics (Mega Man done in the style of Hard Corps Uprising would be fantastic too) and a mix of new and remixed music.
It makes it seem like it would be upper Japanese-y but remember that Mega Man has ALWAYS been rendered in anime style graphics (except by idiotic Western artists..).
sigh oh Rock... all I can say is I wish you the best of luck...
If they use the mega man x figure then it could actually look good
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