Poppular Videogame to Become Movie? High Risk of a Flop...

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Originally Posted by Gerbil the Sinner

I know. I asked what you defined as Expanded Universe.



But why is that necessary and not, say, introducing new plot elements specifically for a film?

The reason why I believe that EU material is necessary is due to most games not having decent stories in terms of movies. You could always introduce new plot materials and that is what I am getting at. I think the EU needs to be there as a base for the writers to expand upon. If you give the writers nothing to work with they can't craft anything good. The writers need a lot of material to work with in order to create new material that still adheres to the game's universe.

I don't think a movie should ever just be about the events that took place in the EU of said game. There is no point in just redoing a story that is already done unless it is horrible of course.