Rumor: Shadow of the Colossus is hitting the big screen

by Xav de Matos on Apr 7th 2009 9:30PM

If the Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business Blog is to be believed, Sony's Shadow of the Colossus is coming to the silver screen. The 2005 critical and commercial hit title from developer Team Ico is reportedly slated for a feature film release from producer Kevin Misher and Sony Pictures.

Don't get too excited. Justin Marks, the guy responsible for writing Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, is slated to pen the Colossus script but not before finishing up work on the deliciously ironic film Hack/Slash. Its title is presumably based on one-part his writing skill and one-part what he does with licenses under his care, amirite?

This isn't the first time Shadow of the Colossus will be seen on the big screen. In 2007, Adam Sandler starred in Reign Over Me, a film about a man who lost his family during the 9/11 terrorist attacks and played the game to ignore the outside world and escape his deep depression.

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Reader Comments (109)

A lot of people moaned about the fact the game has no dialogue which would make it crap.

WRONG, a good writer could think of an epic storyline to go with this, it would just have significantly less Collosus', thats all, I know the game is repetitive (despite this fun) and without much of a plot or dialogue, but if I was given the script to work on, theres enough there to work upon, starting with the people that had our hero trapped in there, what happened to the sleeping beauty we were trying to save, or the secret behind the suspicious ruins, who said there weren't more then 12 collosus? And if all else fails, scrap whats there and rewrite a new plot, I would find nothing more fun then putting together a film that has a great storyline and massive collosus' in it, possibly one with a city on it head, shoulders or whatnot.

However.....this particular movie plan if it goes ahead is doomed, the writer is crap ¬_¬ Street Fighter was a shit movie, I would have had more fun colouring in my eye balls with a crayon..

I never got past the worm-like colossus in the big sand room. Just couldn't get the bow aim right under pressure :(

Must get back to that game, even though I didn't finish it, it has ranked on my all-time favourites.

The tie-in video game might be okay.

There is just no way this game could translate into a good movie, without cutting out the heart of what made it great. An isolated character, no dialogue, no background information or exposition. Please just leave it alone Hollywood.

Upvoted for agreement of your post, but mainly because of your awesome name/avatar.

PREDICTION: the movie will be about giant stone monsters attacking modern-day NYC. They will represent global warming, terrorism, or both.

Don't forget the evils of modern technology. Either nuclear technology or genetic engineering, depending on how culturally relevant they try to make it.

Please... someone kill this man.
I will pay you.
I don't care how much just do it.
Do it for humanity's sake.

Anyone who could possibly think of this being adapted into a movie is either hopefully an indie film writer or a complete fucking moron.

Does anyone here listen to Zero Punctuation?
THIS is what he's always yammering on about. Theres a little thing called SUBTLETY that we need to keep in-tact here.