Tuesday
Jul152008
'Lost Planet' Video Game will go to Big Screen!
venkman
2008-07-15T07:42:32-0700 
Venkman here with some cool news! During the E3 Convention it will be announced today that Warner Bros. and Capcom will be taking the Video game 'Lost Planet' to a whole new level of greatness and turn it into a movie! I am a fan of the game which was really fun to play. David Hayter who recently did 'Watchman' will write the screenplay. Here is what Variety reports:
Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul will produce through Seaside Entertainment, the shingle they formed to produce fantasy fare.
"Lost Planet," which was released in Japan in late 2006 and North America in early 2007, has sold over 2 million units. A sequel is believed to be in the works.
The vidgame revolves around an expedition to an ice planet that harbors an energy source with the potential to save mankind.
WB will have worldwide distribution rights on "Lost Planet."
Capcom is becoming an increasingly active participant in movie transfers of its vidgame hits. The publisher so far has had "Resident Evil" turned into three films, with a fourth in the works. It is currently partnered with Hyde Park Entertainment on a live action version of its game "Street Fighter" and has a feature version of "Onimusha" at Paramount.
Avi Arad is a name I haven't seen in the news in awhile. If you don't know he use to be The Man over at Marvel. It will be interesting to see how this movie ends up. Hollywood is loving its Video Game and Comic Book adaptations. Why people haven't got there shit together yet to do a Halo movie is ridiculous. One day.
I think a 'Lost planet' Movie could be really kick ass movie if its done right!

Reader Comments (1)
LOST PLANET MOVIE ALSO STREET FIGHTER ONIMUSHA AND DARKSTALKERS.
All I talking here is that Capcom will producing movies based on their video games series with Lost Planet,Street Fighter and Onimusha,David Hayter,Warner Bros and Capcom will work on the Lost Planet movie which Crystal sky CEO Steven Paul and former Marvel comic man Avi Arad to produce the film,
Capcom is working with Hyde Park Entertainment and 20th Century Fox with Street Fighter:The Legend Of Chun Li and Onimusha with Davis Films,Davis Films Samuel Hadida has put the project on hold so they will get the Onimusha project back on track with Japanese production companies to work on the film and the plot will get rewritten to get rid of that Big Trouble in Little China story and do the script to follow up the game Onimusha Warlords,Shin Yoshida will have his name on the Onimusha film credits with John Collee and Keiji Inafune on IMDb when something happens.The film location for Onimusha will be Japan.
Capcom should get into talks with Lawrence Kasanoff/Threshold
Entertainment to work on the Darkstalkers project with films and TV series.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.