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franchises, for some reason, will be very difficult to go live action. Welcome back to VGBM , and today were going to look at a few
franchises in different medias , may it be gaming , books or anime in
which for some reason or the other it will be difficult to make the
live action transition. Back in august my friend paskr18 did a post
on the different reasons why the transition will be hard so I’m
going to present some franchise in my opinion that we will most
likely not see in the movies anytime soon.
1. Duke Nukem series (game)
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| Duke Nukem 3D |
Back
in the 1990’s one of the most influential gaming franchises was the
Duke Nukem series. It was an action game in which the plot consisted
of killing invading aliens. One of the first great FPS with full 3D
environment with Duke Nukem 3D back in 1996. Now why would a fairly
simple plot not work, well honestly although the game was fun, but
the main character for lack of a better word is a douche.
Duke is a confident, aggressive, and frequently politically
incorrect muscle
man, who, although not superhuman,
nonetheless manages to achieve incredible physical feats of violence
and conquest through sheer machismo and
expertise with automatic
firearms.
Seriously who say things like :” it’s time to kick-ass and chew
bubble gum, and I’m all out of bubblegum” or “I'll
rip your head off and shit down your neck” which he actually does .
But although all his faults, Duke Nukem is just a mixture of the
typical hero stereotypes from the 80’s and the 90’s which is not
so acceptable in this day and age. Unless they revise the main
protagonist personality I find the transition to live action very
difficult.
2. Wanted (Comic books)
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| Wesley and Fox |
Although
a movie based on this comic as already been made, anyone who actually
read the book will tell you that story wise the movie has really
dropped the ball in this case. The story focused on main protagonist
Wesley who discovered that his father who abandoned him as a child
was a super-villain called The Killer after who’s death inherited
his ability, his wealth and his position in the guild of
super-villains called the Fraternity that eradicated all of the
world’s superhero’s, imagine that most of the heroes dead in the
flashback sequence of the comic. What does really seem disturbing is
how Wesley goes from a cubicle push-over that was abused by nearly
everybody to a complete killer that enjoys random acts of violence.
Not to mention the many plots and sub-plots of the story but having a
main protagonist going on a shooting rampage for the fun of it would
be a little off which they tried to ignore when they made the movie
but I admit it was that transformation that made the book so
enjoyable.
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| From push-over to stone cold killer |
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| Crazy killer |
3. Hellsing (Anime)
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| Alucard |
Finally
we have the anime of this list. With a huge cult following which
includes myself by Kouta Hirano. For those not familiar the franchise
, it consist of the fight of an organization called Hellsing that
protects Great Britain from any supernatural treat and their main
weapon is a reformed vampire Alucard. I have to note how dark this
story is for which I feel the transition to live action will be
difficult although there is a presence of mild humor , but what is
unsettling is how close to being evil that main protagonists Alucard
and Sir Integra really are. They even portray represent and of the
Vatican as monsters. Some may say that the first version of the story
was acceptable in terms of good guys being good but we have to agree
that it mostly concentrated on one of the 3 main characters and even
then there were signs of Alucard going blood crazy. In the end, I
admit that this is one of my favorite anime of all time I just see it
nearly impossible going live action.
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| Alexander Anderson, representative of Vatican |
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| Sir Integra and Victoria, main secondary protagonists |
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