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If there's a man who can do it, it's got to be Fiddy. | |
He's my hero. | |
As much as my inner nerd screams no, I can see this working. I mean, it's a gangland action flick with a fairly interesting cast of characters and a bunch of over the top action scenes. It's not hard to see this being done. | |
NOOOOOOOO GOD DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't let that pile of human filth do it!! Saint's Row is awesome and I don't wanna see it destroyed. | |
I do not support 50 cents style of Rap; However, this would be a good fit for him. 50 Cent has the right gangster image to fit in with the movie, and he is a competent actor when the job calls for it. Though the true determing factor of this move will be the writing, will they take the over-the-top whackiness from the game? or will the take the darker, more gritty road? -This-is-Hip-Hop | |
I don't think they care enough to identify the game's tone. They'll probably go with a gritty tone because that'll be totally hardcore gangster. | |
O_o No. Just... no. ... No. Seriously, no. There isn't enough room for me to type how many "no's" this deserves. NO. | |
hehe, i'll watch this just to see him fail | |
As much as I am loath to say this, I will probably watch that if it comes out. | |
But... this is the first video game to movie adaptation I have ever heard that makes sense. I mean... it doesn't need a story, plot, casting or anything. All he needs to do is run around and shoot people for 2 hours. | |
Gaames like mass effect and gta people have said need movies or t.v. shows but they already are. Saints row 2 plays out like a cheesy action movie, there is no way in hell I can take this shit seriusly.... exept the fact that 50 cent is full of shit. | |
What is it with rappers and thinking they know video games? | |
As opposed to anyone else? It's a 35 year old medium, it doesn't take years of study to learn a thing or two about games. Soulja Boy was pretty damn good at Gears when all those magazines challenged him. I dunno, at this point I think gamers ought to just welcome the hip-hop community into the fold. It's not like GTA isn't one of the top selling franchises of all time. Or that game plots couldn't use a fresh injection of humor and ridiculousness. | |
50 Cent + Saint's Row... hmmm it's so crazy it just might work! I mean, anything that stops him from making games right? | |
Well, it could be worse - it could be Kanye West optioning the game. | |
you know, i dont think that the saints row movie would suck with 50 cent. if its made. | |
Admitedly he would make one great "Joke" gangster, if the writers decide to go that direction. I could imagine him wearing his polo while robbing a gas station, and then procced to say he is doing this because his fiance left him and his mother died. Love his music though, always has a good beat, great when your feeling rather down. -This-is-Hip-Hop | |
But don't you make your own character in Saints Row? | |
No, this is NOT what we need to improve the game's image... | |
Who do you think is smarter? Fiddy or Kanye West? I would have gone with Kanye West, but that was before I actually listened to Fiddy speak in a couple interviews about various subjects. Sure, he's Fiddy, but that doesn't mean he's stupid. Hm... This Saints Row idea is actually pretty great. Like previous posters have said, it doesn't have a very strong narrative. What it has is its own atmosphere, world, and personality. A good writer could turn Saints Row into anything. And I think 50 would fit in perfectly as one of the over-the-top crazy gangsters. | |
Movies based on games suck, and movies with Fifty Cent in them suck... I can't see this being good. | |
"He would also like to make a version of Tetris" ...Hahaha I would love to see it. But seriously, how many versions of tetris does the world really need? How would it be different I wonder? | |
Well if there was any game that should not be made into a movie, it would be Saints Row, very very poor choice, but since he loves to rap about how he got shot 9 times, I am not surprised. | |
clown violence rapper wants to make a film about a clown violence videogame. I've heard of worse matches. | |
What about the people like me and Yahtzee who made the Saint's leader a swarthy Aussie? | |
No DAMMIT I want the protagonist to have the Australian accent. | |
I hate him so much, I can't describe it. Just looking at him makes me ball my fists up and want to punch him. 50 cent Tetris? Did I read that right? I can imagine the blue falling down and shouting at the yellow, "Get out mah way, motherfucker! I'll fuck yo' up!" | |
The row had little to no plot... it was just mindless fun, so this isn't going to be good. However, if my cockney accented guy is on screen with his black suite and blue tie... with mime face paint... throwing a old lady over a roof top, into oncoming traffic, this movie would RULE. | |
A saints row movie. Hmmmmmmm. If they just drum up some random plot and some black humour ala Postal, this could work. Possibly. A bit. | |
But I loved Saints Row...NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh god I'm terrified, half of me thinking "Lots of guns and dirty comedy, Fiddy could pull this off" but then I remember that it may kill Saints Row. | |
50 Cent is the new Uwe Boll. | |
Oh sweet Jesus...well, I guess there's a chance the movie might actually be...good? If so I'd be glad to see it, as I did enjoy the Saints Row games. Well then, I wish you good luck Mr. Fiddy. | |
Ninja'd. Maybe he is going to be worse who knows. | |
Well negative times negative equals positive, so this will be the best movie ever. Or, at least, the next Snakes on a Plane. Go go 50 Cent! Also, if 50 Cent has any sense, (and actually manages to make another game), he should definitively call it 150 Cent. | |
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50 Cent Making Saints Row Movie
Not content with making videogames about himself, 50 Cent now wants to make a movie out of a videogame. He would also like to make a version of Tetris.
50 Cent's partnership with THQ, the publisher of his game, Blood on the Sand, is proving lucrative beyond the just-released game. The hip-hop mogul now wants to get into the entirely respectable business of producing film adaptations of videogames, and he wants to start with THQ's Saints Row franchise.
"With my relationship with THQ, they'll actually see me develop Saint's Row into an actual screenplay and into a film project," 50 revealed during a conference call about Blood on the Sand. "I'm optioning the rights for that right now, so they'll see that before they see me do it from my own perspective for my game."
Call me crazy, but it might actually work. Saints Row doesn't really have much narrative meat to it - it just has a barebones story and then a wacky over-the-top universe in which crazy things happen. It's more about an atmosphere and a tone than anything else, and 50 Cent knows what it's like to live in ridiculous and cartoonish faux hip-hop state of mind at all times anyway. In any case, there's really not that much there to ruin, so why not?
With two games now fully under his belt, 50 Cent also seems to be thinking about taking game development to the next level. No, not 50 Cent 3 (150 Cent?), but something altogether different. "I'd like to be a part of developing, marketing and promoting a game I'm not actually in," he told MTV. "It could be like Tetris. It's one of my favorite games."
50 Cent Tetris. That may make you doubt the man's capacity for genius ideas, but listen to this. You know the premise of Blood on the Sand? 50 Cent gets a crystal skull, the skull gets stolen, and then 50 and his buddies chase bad guys all over Iraq-but-not-Iraq to get it back? That was his idea.
"The crystal skull actually exists," 50 revealed. "It's a diamond, an artifact. I saw it in a magazine in Dubai. I took it and said, 'Make this what they're after.'"
[Source: Kotaku, MTV]
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