Shadow of the Colossus Movie Makers Want Film To Be More WALL·E, Less Scott Pilgrim

Turning the solitary world of PlayStation 2 classic Shadow of the Colossus into a movie, as some people are attempting to do, is a tricky prospect. How to turn a series of 16 battles against giant furry foes into a two-hour film?

According to a recently published interview with Kevin Ping Chang, production exec at the company adapting Shadow of the Colossus, the filmmakers are taking lessons learned from movies like WALL·E and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World into account during the big screen adaptation process.

Chang tells Play Till Doomsday that the producers "aim to capture the magic from the first hour of WALL·E," an animated movie that started off nearly devoid of dialogue. And...

"Not that I don't respect the Scott Pilgrim source material, but watching the movie, I felt it sort of dragged along," Chang tells Play Till Doomsday. "Those are some of the pitfalls that we have to be careful to avoid. So these colossi battles need to be very significant, they can't just be one after the other, there has to be something learned from them. We need to be cognizant of that and say 'we're not going to do a montage sequence.'"

Sometimes it takes a montage. Sometimes it doesn't.

Chang indicates that Team ICO head and Shadow of the Colossus game designer Fumito Ueda is also heavily involved in the sign-off process, but that plans to adapt games Ico and The Last Guardian are not currently in the works—but not out of the question.

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I love the game so much! Can't wait to see the movie!

Honestly, I thought Wall.e dragged a whole lot more than Scott Pilgrim and even if Scott Pilgrim did drag. You were putting six comic books into one movie, there are going to be some time issues. The people who did the Scott Pilgrim movie did that masterfully well and getting to the topic, I would pretty much hate the idea of a Shadow of the Colossus movie, if they're going to attempt to really speed it up. It would probably be quite horrible and wouldn't leave enough time for the final scene, which is the one flaw I found in the Scott Pilgrim movie. If they go in this direction, I suspect the movie would be pretty bad, or at least the ending would be.

But as long as they don't do Michael Bay style monsters (who are probably secretly aliens) then I will hopefully be happy with everything else as long as they stick to the source material.

Never played the games, but Adam Sandler did in Reign Over Me. lol I enjoyed both Wall-E and Scott Pilgrim. I would have to agree that Scott Pilgrim dragged a bit and the first half hour was pretty boring. Wall-E dragged a bit, but I don't remember too much about it.

I pray this movie turns out well. The game is a work of art and it is going to be hard to translate the absolute beauty of the game to the big screen.

I hope it'll be good, because the game was awesome. I love Team Ico's productions and can't wait for both this and The Last Guardian http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/happy.png

Aww come on, why does this get a movie but not Kingdom Hearts or Zelda?

Aww come on, why does this get a movie but not Kingdom Hearts or Zelda?

 

I'm sorry, but I'm not so sure about a Kingdom Hearts movie. Now Zelda's another story. I think that could work, if done well.

Aww come on, why does this get a movie but not Kingdom Hearts or Zelda?

 

Because Shadow of the Colossus has a dramatically better story than Kingdom Hearts and Zelda combined.