Calgar99 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Ubisoft has hired Oscar winning directors Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy, for $10m to make a live action film based on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Oscar winners making GR movie short Ubisoft is paying Oscar-winning directors Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy $10m to make a live action film based on new game Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The 'short' will be 20 minutes long and serve as a prequel, setting up the story for the US special forces squad, the Hollywood Reporter reported. Children of Men writer Tim Sexton is also on board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnTC02 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 $10m seems a lot just for a 20 minuet movie, I can't help thinking that all those dollars could be put to better use producing a better game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Ah thanks for posting this. I found the news on a german site and was trying to translate it lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brettzies Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 I wonder how much money they are spending on the actual game. I find paying these guys 10 mil a little distasteful to the actual devs. I highly doubt anyone actual artist or dev at ubi or redstorm is getting even 1 million to work on GR. Games have been raking in millions of dollars without the benefit of paying 2 people 10million to do something that isn't even the game. However cool it could be, I don't really like the precedent it is setting in terms of money. Also be-littles the efforts of the developers to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ResidentPSYCHO Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Sounds like Ubisoft is focusing a lot of attention on marketing for this game. I would imagine this reflects how much effort has gone into the actual game, to detail and quality. As it is a prequel this is in a form the first Future Soldier content confirmed since the preview trailer and a serious attempt at that, so good news, not bad, right? Also to JohnTC02, the less money they spend on marketing/sales, the fewer people will buy/preorder the game and the budget for the actual game would most likely be smaller, rather than $10mil extra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoQuarter Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 ^ Word of mouth carries more weight than 10 million dollars worth of pre-release buzz and hype ever will, the talents of Francois & Herve -whoever they are- notwithstanding. Imagine that sum being properly utilised within a given title. ____ Typical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteKnight77 Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 you are right NQ. With Ubi releasing game after game that suffers from the same bugs that were in previous releases, it would be much better if said monies were spent on game development and bug fixes. Ubi keeps saying that they are giving the gamers what they want, but are they? Gamers want as close to bug free games as possible (remember when console games were next to bug free and didn't need patching?) and yet, it isn't done. Ubi needs to put it's money where it's mouth is and actually start doing what it states. If Ubi really wants gamers to buy it's games, they need to offer what gamers really want in a game and not high priced PR stunts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 On the flip side, to me this is an indication that Ubisoft are following up on their promise to make GR4 a major success for them this year. Hiring talented professionals as part of the games PR shows they mean business, and hopefully is an indicator on how much resource they are also putting into the games development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR6 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 I agree with Rocky that this move by Ubi does show their commitment to help promote the success of GRFS. The question is if this movie will actually help to move more copies of GRFS than without it. Hopefully the game will also be good enough to speak for itself too. Ubi has not made their ambitions to expand into the movie business a secret for the past few years. They wanted to form a CGI production house in their Montreal studio a few years back (not sure how successful that was) http://www.gamespot.com/news/6165617.html And recently purchased another special effects company. See: http://www.edge-online.com/news/ubisoft-ta...ce-of-hollywood They also made an online movie to promote AC2 which was ... OK Personally, I wish the GRFS movie would have been CGI - like the one Ubi released for GRAW1. In any case, looking forward to the movie and hope it's a success! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migryder Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) SHORT FILM COMING WELL, I don't know what the game will be like and the chatter about the promo seems negative...but check this tidbit at Gamespy... http://www.gamespy.com/articles/108/1080065p1.html mig [Admin Edit: Merged with the existing thread on this] Edited March 28, 2010 by Pave Low Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeealice Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 (edited) $10m seems a lot just for a 20 minuet movie, I can't help thinking that all those dollars could be put to better use producing a better game. but you have to remember if its not mechanical its cgi and they both cost quite a bit and seeing their constumes and the drones i would say the price is about right i'm guessing they wont be showing these on kids channels, i love my little darlings but theres an age limit for blood and guts these days. Edited April 1, 2010 by zeealice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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