Red Dead Redemption Movie Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt is reportedly the frontrunner to play the protagonist John Marston, in a big-screen adaptation of the Old West video game, Red Dead Redemption. 'Red Dead Redemption 2' borrowed a scene from Brad Pitt's high-profile movie Rockstar Games released the second trailer of the upcoming prequel title 'Red Dead. Brad Pitt is reportedly interested in starring as John Marston, the lead character of Red Dead Redemption, the year's most highly talked about videogame from Rockstar.
The blood-soaked battlefields of the 41st Millennium have long been razed and celebrated by thousands of dedicated generals, artists, gamers and nerd-folk the world over. The hobby, and the universe around it, has seen a number of successful (and not so much) video game adaptations like the popular Dawn of War series and the unfortunately discontinued Space Marine IP. But while the property has begun to shrink somewhat in the general gaming consciousness, the original table top board game is stronger than ever before. On the other hand, high prices and a convoluted rule book have repelled many a new comer from truly diving in.
Brad Pitt won't do it, he did The Assassination of Jesse James not too long ago and there's no reason for this movie to succeed. The story of RDR was good but if you strip it down it wasn't all the good in just movie form. I don't think there's enough depth there to make a movie that doesn't have the same story but ties in with the game. Deus Ex and Mass Effect are a different case. There's a lot of untold story there and the possibility for it to work. Movie games suck in general because people make movies out of stuff like Doom, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat which have no story or a pretty poor, irrelevant story.
Just the fact that there are people who play these games and expect to get the same satisfaction out a hollywood movie with both having the same name behind it is beyond me. The cinematic experience you get from playing the game ain't enough for you folks. Besides, I've only seen one decent videogame movie and that was that Final Fantasy 7 movie, and even that was made by the people who made the games. This game hasn't even been out more than 4 months yet and they're announcing a movie based on it. This is hella rediculous. @Wattstown I agree with your statement on movies being games because of their media but I gotta admit that Scott Pilgrim vs the World was kick @$$ from start to finish it had it all in their probably 70% or more from the game and I'm guessing the best parts of the comics and the story flows also.
I think Brad Pitt can make it work cause he played the general in Inglorious Bastards who had a southern accent shouldn't too hard to do in the red dead movie grown out his hair a bit more and add a scar and he should be fine. Arnold should play marshall johnston! Brad Pit a homosexual? You wish buddy. Jealous much? Insecure much? Pitt's one of the better actors out there.
He's got range, and he slips into roles that people wouldn't think a so-called pretty boy could pull off. 12 Monkeys, Kalifornia, Snatch, Burn After Reading, even in films that aren't perfect, he always turns in a solid performance. Aldo Raine was flawless, and even though Interview With the Vampire strayed from the source material here and there, he completely stole the show. He's rumoured to be standing in for Max Brooks in World War Z, and his presence in Red Dead would cement it's funding. If you're hating on Brad Pitt, it's just because he left one woman who's hotter than any woman you'll ever date for another woman who's hotter than any woman you'll ever date, he works with a bunch of different charities helping starving kids, he adopts lots of starving kids, he's got a bunch of houses that are nicer than any house you'll ever live in, and he's got more money this week than you'll make in two lifetimes. Oh, and he's also got his own film production company.
Hate if you want, but you're just envious. Games COULD make good films if the right people can be attracted to the project and the proper funding, time and attention allotted to the people involved. Games like Bioshock, Halo, Gears of War, Dead Space, God of War, these are the kinds of games that should be top priorities, and with the right casts, directors and writers involved there's no reason that these films couldn't be amazing. Halo and Gears are begging for cinematic treatment, but look what happens almost every time. The budgets get cut, because the studios want a quick cash-in rather than any kind of actual interest in integrity of the property or the wishes of the fans who supported the games. Plenty of things have been proven to be possible when people had previously written them off.
There's a serious lack of integrity in Hollywood. It has nothing to do with the relevance of games as an ART form (middle finger to Ebert) or their viability in inspiring filmmakers to greatness. People said Lord of the Rings couldn't be done.
All it took was some very creative people with a lot of passion and a studio that was willing to put the time and money into it. (Even then they still tried to screw the filmmakers and crew out of well deserved royalties) Nobody has put that kind of thought into a game adaptation. Even the ones that are halfway decent like Silent Hill or Resident Evil aren't really adaptations but pseudo-homages and aren't really all that evocative of the games they take their names from. Bloodrayne could have been a huge hit. A sexy redheaded Dhampir hunting the Nazi Thule society? Who needs Kate Beckensale with that concept as a possible film?
A vampire killing Nazis in bad-ass secret fortresses during WWII would have been frickin' awesome. One part Underworld and one part Indiana Jones but more violent and badass than either. But no, they give it to a guy who's certainly got passion and creative vision but no real sense for dialogue, acting, casting, or story. He can do it for cheep, and that's about all the thought it gets.
Kids are dumb and they'll pay to see it even if Joe F@ckwad unknown actor and Douchebag Johnson co-star perform poorly, wear lame costumes and pretend to interact with the half-assed special effects and weak dialogue. Just 'cause nobody's bothered to give a sh!t yet doesn't mean it's impossible. Hell Gore Verbinski was supposed to do Bioshock until the studio wanted to change locations on him and cut the budget.
They can't break the code that you get out of it what you put into it and most people can tell if a films worth their time by the time the second trailer is out. Games COULD make good films if the right people can be attracted to the project and the proper funding, time and attention allotted to the people involved. Games like Bioshock, Halo, Gears of War, Dead Space, God of War, these are the kinds of games that should be top priorities, and with the right casts, directors and writers involved there's no reason that these films couldn't be amazing.
Halo and Gears are begging for cinematic treatment, but look what happens almost every time. The budgets get cut, because the studios want a quick cash-in rather than any kind of actual interest in integrity of the property or the wishes of the fans who supported the games. Click to expand.Okay, okay, I see what you're saying and understand where you are coming from. But there's an influx of too much shit in too many fields of entertainment. Originalality has disappeared and the looks to other forms of entertainment from the near and far past flood what we see at the movies nowadays.
I'm saying fuck dipping into what's been done and make something new. We play the games, go through the story, and that should be that. There are many other mediums that fit the conversion from story to film, but when you play most of these games and get both story and cinematics, why is there a need for a film.? There will be a good game-to-movie at some point, it's bound to happen. But as you said, unless the right people go at it the right way then what's the point. Videogames are videogames, movies are movies.
Brad was actually good in 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'. He played Jesse all sly and full of coiled menace. Not sure about him playing John Marston though. He would have to play him as a reluctant hero and lots of makeup as he is kinda baby faced.
But he would be a big name actor that would give the move immediate cachet. As someone else mentioned, Josh Brolin would be perfect.
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Most of the time, video games suck when brought to the big screen but this game had a great storyline and could translate well. However, the game itself was already a homage to the classic western and its archetype characters so maybe not. Not enough westerns of late but a few good ones is the first one I mentioned as well as '3:10 to Yuma' and, um, 'Unforgiven'. Maybe this movie will kick start a re-birth of the western?