Video game adaptations are undergoing an interesting rift right now. In the realm of television, we’re seeing the rise of high-budget, prestige-y adaptations like The Last of Us and Fallout, trying to replicate the hard-hitting emotion and complex ideologies depicted in their source games. In movies, on the other hand, we’re seeing the exact opposite. Movies like The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Sonic the Hedgehog took classic video game characters and transformed them into crowd-pleasing broad comedies with all-star casts.
Now, one of the most successful movies of this new trend is becoming a series, meaning we could be seeing a watershed moment in video game movie history.
