This could be good. After all, metroid doesn’t exactly have a story to screw up. Go John Woo!
He’ll find a way…
He didnt with the Hulk.
I don’t know, video game to movie has a history of NOT working. House of the Dead, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Tomb Raider, etc.
Ang Lee directed The Hulk, not Woo.
If any other VG movie is an indication, Samus Aran will spend less time in her power armour and more time running around sweaty in a tank top. Oh, and they’ll make the morph-ball sequence goofy too.
The only thing that can save this is a semi-serious treatment from a scriptwriter familiar with the material.
There’s no way to make the morphball sequence *not * goofy. Count me in as someone who’s going to pass on this film, despite my undying love of all things Metroid. John Woo sucks major ass. He’ll probably end up casting Tom Cruise or Nicolas Cage as Samus, manage to fit in a motorcycle sequence, and populate the metroid world with thousands of white doves. Mark my words.
Y’know, even as good as the graphics were in Metroid Prime, I just can’t imagine a live-action film about the adventures of Samus Aran. It doesn’t make any more sense than a live action version of Aeon Flux.
Fie on all o’ ya.
Yay, Metroid. There’s enough story - bad alien thingy, space pirates got it - for it to not be plotless, but so much “gray area” that they can fill in almost any story they want.
Sure, it could suck. But hey, it’s got to be better than, say, The Core or Armageddon.
Once you give Samus somebody to talk to, you lose the majority of the feeling of the Metroid games - being alone on a hostile planet filled with mazes. Without somebody to talk to, it would be an hour and a half of Samus jumping around, shooting random critters (which is fun for the game, but not as passive entertainment).
Besides, John Woo can’t direct this. She’s already got one arm completely covered by a cannon, and another on the other hand would be goofy.
There can be other beings to chat with. The first half-hour doesn’t even have to be on Zebes… and there’s no reason why there can’t be other folks on the planet (there just wasn’t for game purposes, 'cuz, well, there were no RPG elements…)
I do agree, however, that a sidekick for comic relief or a “lover” (shudder at THAT thought) for added drama would ruin the flick. Metroid is not a romance.
So who would be a good Samus? I’d say Angelina Jolie, but she’s pretty much tied to the Lara Croft character. Conflicting interests, and all that. Charlize Theron would be great, as would Uma Thurman.
Well, many of those were made by people who simply were incompetant to begin with. This is John Woo’s pet project, and I like most of his work. And some video games with less of a plot have been pretty good: Mortal Kombat ain’t Shakespeare, but it works pretty well as a simple martial Arts flick.
resident Evil sucked, but it shouldn’t have and wouldn’t have if Paul Anderson had any talent. How that man got a job I will never know.
Tomb Raider was ok… not great… but not resident evil…
Mortal Kombat was good for a teenager… (I saw it about 20 times)
Metroid has some serious potential… but so did Tomb Raider.
I am still waiting for The Legend of Zelda starring Orlando Bloom as Link.
Come on… can you think of any better actor to play any video game character?
He can even use his old Costume from LOTR…
The answer is Linda Hamilton. IMO, Samus is a veteran, and Hamilton would be perfect to convey that.
Except that Samus actually looks good.
Well, for a cartoonish video game character that is.
I’m sure it’ll suck, and I’m sure I’ll see it anyways 
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Real shame. Some games could be made into awesome movies if people did better jobs making them.
As for who should play as Samus, I’m going with Uma thurman. I can’t think of anyone else. She’s just the right age, and she’s hot, but not too hot. Plus, I would have no hard time believing that she went through boot camp or was in an army at some point. I think it’s silly when people start suggesting supermodels play a baddass bounty hunter.
On a related note, is the list of “good videogame movies” composed of only two movies? The only good game movies I can think of are Tron and Mortal Kombat (Street fighter is good, but only in a “so bad it’s good way” imo, so that doesn’t count). Is that all?
Hey, I was going on acting talent, not looks. Frankly, I think that to be a far more important characteristic.
And besides, Miss Theron has already proved that she need not be considered a “supermodel”… 
They should film the entire movie from Samus’ first-person viewpoint. Except the morph ball sequences.
Speaking of the morph ball sequences, how are they supposed to work in the game? In Metroid Prime, it looks like Samus just crouches into the fetal posistion, and the shell of a ball forms around her. But in the 2D games, the ball is obviously much smaller than Samus, and there’s no way she’d fit into it unless her body was physically crunched and compressed.
Especially since the character spends most of the game inside a full body Power Suit.