Parasite Eve
Rumors of a Parasite Eve film have circulated pretty much since the original game's introduction. Years later, there's no definitive word on the film. Ain't It Cool News reported at one time that Madguy Films would coproduce the film and that it would be done in full Digimation CG animation (the same process used in the Final Fantasy movie).
Area 51
In 1997, seemingly dog years ago in the games business, New Line Cinema announced that it inked a deal with Atari Games to bring the shooter Area 51 to the silver screen. Forrest Gump producer Steve Tisch was among the list of possible producers, and Atari Games indicated that the script was being written by Brandon Braga and Ronald Moore, who wrote the script for Star Trek: First Contact, and that it would generally follow the plotline of the arcade version of the game. In the movie, DNA geno-morphing aliens crash on Earth and are taken by the US government to Area 51 to be studied for potential weapons use. Nothing has been said about the film since the original announcement.
House of the Dead
What's perhaps most notable about the potential House of the Dead movie is that Jesse Dylan, Bob's other son and the director of Neverwhere, based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel by the same name, licensed rights to the game from Sega out of his own pocket. This all happened in 1998. Then the story was that Dreamworks SKG bought rights to the film from Dylan, leaving him on board as the producer and director. Writer Mark Verheiden (Time Cop and The Mask) was slated to write the screenplay.
The film was to take place in a house in a small town, where the local college's most fashionable kids happen to be zombies. A zombie murder at a rave sets up the invasion of the "Goth" house by the film's heroes.
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