"Welcome to dee metro, Artyom!" MGM acquires film rights to the mutant killing LSD trip book series! - Polidicks

[quote]Heat Vision is reporting that MGM has acquired the film rights to Dmitri Glukhovsky's Russian sci-fi novel Metro 2033. F. Scott Frazier will write the script for the film, to be produced by Mark Johnson ("The Chronicles of Narnia" films). The book is described as follows: The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend. More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over. A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price. VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared. Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity. The site says the book first appeared in Russian online in 2002 before being published in Russia as a novel in 2005. The book was then translated into 35 languages, including English in 2010, the same year it was adapted into a video game by 4A Games. [/quote] I'm not too sure how to feel about this. Sauce: [URL="http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=94788"]http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=94788[/URL]

They better not mess it up, I remain cautious until we see more.

[quote]Scott Frazier will write the script for the film[/quote] Without Dmitri (at least) helping to write the film, I have little to no hope for this.

I thought Metro Goldwyn Mayer went down the shitter?

If it's anything like the game, it'll screen at 20fps with a ridiculously small field of view and you won't be able to see anything because of how dark it is

[QUOTE=zerotwelve;37668215]If it's anything like the game, it'll screen at 20fps with a ridiculously small field of view and you won't be able to see anything because of how dark it is[/QUOTE] Not if you have a decent PC, the ability to navigate to the config files and actually keep the flashlight charged.

i loved metro 2033 a lot and i preordered last light, for the love of god please dont butcher it

[video=youtube;EIGcNjXFwoA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGcNjXFwoA[/video] I'm just going to leave this here. I feel it is appropriate.

So this guy will write the script . [url]http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2400444/[/url] And this guy will produce it? [url]http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425741/[/url] The script will probably be awful but it will probably look really good.

I've heard of F. Scott Fraizer before. what did he do? [editline]14th September 2012[/editline] am I thinking of F. Scott Fitzgerald? :v:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mON5WmA5REk[/media]

[QUOTE=Radley;37669099][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mON5WmA5REk[/media][/QUOTE] If it's anything like this, we can expect good things

[QUOTE=altern;37669089]I've heard of F. Scott Fraizer before. what did he do? [editline]14th September 2012[/editline] am I thinking of F. Scott Fitzgerald? :v:[/QUOTE] I just read the Great Gatsby. Good read. On topic, I'm skeptical about this. I think Metro 2033 could be a great film, but I think the author really needs to be involved, here.

Artyom will either suddenly start drinking lots and slinging around rifles like toys or he'll become even less competent than he is in the book, pick your poison

[QUOTE=zerotwelve;37668215]If it's anything like the game, it'll screen at 20fps with a ridiculously small field of view and you won't be able to see anything because of how dark it is[/QUOTE] so, just like every movie ever?

I hope they don't go for the obvious A-listers. Please no Brad Pitt in the lead role.

[QUOTE=Carne;37670517]I hope they don't go for the obvious A-listers. Please no Brad Pitt in the lead role.[/QUOTE] Why not?

I'd rather have them not include main characters in the movie. Just keep it in the same universe and I'll be fine with it.

[QUOTE=koeniginator;37670539]Why not?[/QUOTE] They should go for an authentic russian cast.

[QUOTE=Cone;37670445]Artyom will either suddenly start drinking lots and slinging around rifles like toys or he'll become even less competent than he is in the book, pick your poison[/QUOTE] I vote Artyom becomes less competent. When the Dark Ones begin attacking his station, he curls up into the fetal position and sucks his thumb. This is the majority of the movie, with the exception of the last ten minutes, where the mutants overrun the station and kill everyone, Artyom included. 10/10, would watch again, learned a lot about the adept art of thumb-sucking.

I see nothing wrong with getting another writer. Glukhovsky comes up with some fantastic ideas and imagery, but his writing style is pretty bland and much too wordy. Seriously, whoever edited the original novel didn't do enough. There is just way too much pointless detail and the story drags on, and on, and on, and on. It's a great read, but when adapting a book to film, I'd say the most important skill is being able to pare it down to the bare essentials to fit within the time limit, and if Metro is anything to go by Glukhovsky himself would be terrible at it. [editline]15th September 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=koeniginator;37670539]Why not?[/QUOTE] One of the big stylistic points of Metro is that Artyom is just another guy trying to survive, albeit with some very weird and inexplicable connection to the place. Having a recognizable actor in the lead role undermines this somewhat, since that actor brings their own legacy and stage presence. When the audience sees Artyom, they should be seeing him as just another guy, not 'that awesome dude who was in [x] and is clearly the hero'.

Watch as they miss the whole point of 90 percent of the source material, cast american actors and hire the resident evil director.

[QUOTE=Nikota;37671467]Watch as they miss the whole point of 90 percent of the source material, cast american actors and hire the resident evil director.[/QUOTE] and make the lead role female so paul anderson can cast his wife [editline]15th September 2012[/editline] at least she is russian

[QUOTE=Nikota;37671467]Watch as they miss the whole point of 90 percent of the source material, cast american actors and hire the resident evil director.[/QUOTE] Welcome to Hollywood :v: Anytime they make a movie off a book or a game, they completely miss the point, but they don't care 'cause they're after the dollars.

[QUOTE=SSBMX;37672002]and make the lead role female so paul anderson can cast his wife [editline]15th September 2012[/editline] at least she is russian[/QUOTE] Executive decision to make the film about Artyom's mother, after the bombs fell. Shortest film ever. [sp]Artyom's parents were eaten / killed by giant rats when Artyom was an infant.[/sp]

Videogames to movies never work, but books based on videogames [B]to[/B] movies have been a lot more succesfull. But western film adaptions of eastern european books rarely work.

I'll be pretty surprised if its worse than the Doom movie.

The book is a really great read, even if the film is successful I doubt it can top the book.

Just another movie that will either never happen or happen and suck total dick.

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbx4jzDBcvU"]I hope the music is as good as the game's soundtrack (by Anthesteria).[/URL]