DJ2 Entertainment have scooped up the adaptation rights to a load of games in recent years. Their current plans include a live-action Disco Elysium series, a live-action Life Is Strange series, a Sleeping Dogs feature film, an Echo live-action movie, a live-action Ruiner series, a Little Nightmares series, and something based on It Takes Two. In terms of ideas they’ve actually realised, DJ2 were producers on the Skulls Of The Shogun cartoon, two of their fellas co-produced the unexpectedly fun Sonic The Hedgehog movie (which I’ve still not forgiven for changing Sonic’s face), and DJ12 are executive producers on the Tomb Raider animated series headed to Netflix. I’m not interested in adaptations even of games I like, but I am hopeful these next few years might at least be better than Uwe Boll’s heyday. Maybe we’ll get really, really lucky and return to the golden days of video game adaptations, the 1990s. They followed a simple formula: take a video game’s name, slap it on a dystopian action-comedy movie, and you’re done. Perfect. Nobody’s made a better video game adaptation than Super Mario or Double Dragon.
