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Originally posted by Concord Dawn
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
That's less than 2 years to make a movie....
(even less if you take in account the time needed to get things started and finished)
Either it will
a) be a shitty movie (even for a "game2movie" movie)...
b) or that date is taken reaaaaaally optimistic...
c) they got tons and tons of money to pull this off in time...
take your pick...
3rd option. This is Microsoft we're talking about.
erm no... MS isn't going to make any movie, they sold the movie rights from a game. Universal and Twentieth Century Fox are going to make that movie...
Also making movies costs a lot of money, _and_ time. 1.5-2 years time is a very tight schedule. What often happens is, to cut production time, putting a lot of second level CGI in such movies and/or using small sound studios with huge painted backdrops and models instead of using huge outdoors sound stages.
Technology has improved a lot though. So what is considered top-notch CGI 5 years ago is now 2nd, 3rd level CGI. But anyways, the figures given in the original news bulletin are very tight and raises some questions about the quality, and sounds more like milking the dead cow (as the hype is over) than anything else.
But of course, who says those figures are absolutely correct. Or who says plans aren't already much further than that news bulletin says (this often happens).
All we can do is wait and see and hope for the best...
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