The days of the “video game adaptation curse” are well and truly over. Now, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and The Minecraft Movie are dominating box office records of past years, and The Last of Us is becoming one of the centerpieces of HBO’s prestige TV lineup. Now that any video game is on the table, there’s no telling what could be next — even Weapons’ Zach Cregger is making a Resident Evil movie.
It appears as though the next big video game movie will take on one of the most beloved video games of the 2010s — but don’t expect a Game of Thrones-style fantasy epic. Instead, this is going a completely different route.
