ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the relationship between movies and games and explains how writing a movie differs from writing for a game and explores why it is hard to adapt a game to a movie. The infamous business of video game/film crossovers is teeming with these stink bombs. Films and games are two distinct industries that both rely on the unpredictable task of trying to pick hits, so when one of them strikes gold, it's no surprise that the other attempts to board the gravy train. The best games based on movies begin with the film as the seed of an idea and grow the story in new directions. Video game film adaptations are an even more fraught scenario. The worlds of many modern video games are enormous, and players take great joy in exploring every detail. Gamers weren't impressed, nongamers were simply baffled, and the movie bombed.
