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Like the seemingly unending comic book movie craze, Hollywood loves to find a type of film that it can turn into the next big cultural touchstone. Over the years, we’ve seen movies based on video games attempt to reach that level, with varying levels of success. We’ve seen adaptations of games for decades, but, to be fair, a lot of these were awful adaptations. Many of them missed the point of the source material and were clumsily executed–although we’ll always have a soft spot for the 1994 Street Fighter movie–but lately, we’ve seen some big changes in this genre.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie took the world by storm last year, earning an obscene amount of cash at the box office, while the Uncharted and both Sonic the Hedgehog movies were also successful. With fresh new IPs to option, dozens of video game movies have been announced over the last couple of years, and while production is moving swiftly on several of them, many more appear to be trapped in the lowest levels of development hell.
We’re hopeful that we’ll see some progress on these long-in-development films, but until Hollywood says otherwise, here’s a deep dive into the video game movies that could be showing at your local cinema in the future. If there’s not an attached release date or it’s not a sequel, though, keep in mind these could also just never be made in the end.