ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE BIG RED SERIES
Noire seemingly featured the entire cast of Mad Men Mark Hamill was the Joker in Rocksteady’s Arkham series Ellen Page led Beyond: Two Souls in 2013 and Liam Neeson was your do-gooder dad in Fallout 3. If you look carefully, half of Hollywood has popped up in a game over the last five years. The cultural exchange goes the other way. (Of course, that will make the moral of the story that it’s right to fear and mistrust strangers. Technically, this suggests Red is an instinctive racist, but my guess is that his suspicions will be vindicated. And he is the only one who thinks the arrival of pigs to his native island is anything other than a multicultural delight. The film’s protagonist is a bird called Red, and he is – you guessed it – angry. Luckily, the Angry Birds screenwriter, Jon Vitti, appears to have embraced the thinness of his source material. In 2012, Universal released Battleship, a film “loosely inspired” by the Hasbro board game of the same name. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising, because there is widespread belief in the box-office magic of “existing IP” – brands that have already demonstrated their commercial appeal. But in recent years Hollywood has shown itself willing to plunder even those video games with no obvious plot or characters in pursuit of success. I harbour a soft spot for both the Tomb Raider series (remember when Angelina Jolie looked as if she ate carbs?) and Jean-Claude Van Damme muscling through 1994’s Street Fighter. Movie versions of video games are not a new phenomenon. Well, he will do if his approach to Assassin’s Creed is anything like mine. And, in December, Michael Fassbender will try to knife people quietly before getting bored and just stabbing everyone in sight, then running away up a bell tower. He will be hoping for better reviews than the 17% score on Rotten Tomatoes awarded to Ratchet & Clank, last month’s adaptation of the platformer game. In May, the game-to-film crossover continues with a World of Warcraft adaptation, directed by indie darling – and mini-Bowie – Duncan Jones. (That might alarm gamers: Dinklage’s voiceover work for Destiny was notoriously underwhelming.) The Angry Birds Movie cast includes credible comic actors such as Jason Sudeikis, Maya Rudolph and Bill Hader, and a cameo from Peter Dinklage, also known as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones. From Friday, he’s in a film based on a smartphone app about catapulting poultry. The Sean Penn who campaigns about the Falklands, played gay rights martyr Harvey Milk and directed a film about a man who hitch-hiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
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