Based On A Video Game
by bobbycardeluxe | created - 05 Nov 2017 | updated - 08 Sep 2022 | PublicUpcoming movies based on a video game (or based on the book(s), but the game made them popular to even consider making it a movie/show to atrrackt a huge fanbase).
Some of them will sadly only end up as Animation film or TV-Show but deserve more, all at least "Announced" or "Pre-production / Development"
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1. The Last of Us (2023– )
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity's last hope.
Stars: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Anna Torv, Gabriel Luna
Votes: 525,958
2. Metal Gear Solid
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Pre-production
An advanced tank is stolen by a terrorist group and an elite soldier, Solid Snake, is dispatched to retrieve it.
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts | Star: Oscar Isaac
3. Half-Life
Action, Adventure, Drama | Announced
An American scientific research facility opens a portal to a hostile alien world, who begin to invade the earth.
4. Splinter Cell
Action, Adventure, Crime | Announced
Follows the missions of a special operative spy.
Director: Joseph Kahn | Star: Tom Hardy
5. Metro 2033 (I)
Sci-Fi | Announced
A young man, Artyom Ptrovich, is sent on a mission by a man named Hunter to find a man named Melnik at a faraway station known as Polis.
7. Rainbow Six
Action, Adventure, Crime | Pre-production
Plot unknown. Feature based on the Tom Clancy novel.
Director: Chad Stahelski | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Maurice P. Kerry
8. Sleeping Dogs (2024)
R | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ex-homicide detective with memory loss is forced to solve a brutal murder, only to uncover chilling secrets from his forgotten past.
Director: Adam Cooper | Stars: Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, Marton Csokas, Tommy Flanagan
Votes: 6,066
9. Gears of War (I)
Action, Adventure, Horror | Announced
On the planet Sera, a former P.O.W. is civilization's best hope in their fight against the Locust Horde, a race of creatures who emerged from underneath the planet's surface, intent on eliminating humankind.
10. Mass Effect
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Announced
Commander Shepard, a military hero, embarks upon an epic, galaxy-wide journey with his team, to track down and bring infamous Saren Arterius to justice, facing insurmountable odds and lethal enemies along the way.
11. Watch Dogs (I)
Action, Crime, Drama | Pre-production
After losing his niece in an assassination attempt, Aiden Pierce, a street-smart-hacker, uses his phone to take over a new operating system in Chicago to hunt the criminals that killed his niece.
12. The Division (I)
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced
In the near future, a pandemic virus is spread via paper money on Black Friday, decimating New York. A group of civilians, trained to operate in catastrophic times, are activated in an attempt to save who and what remains.
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Chastain, McKinley Stamper
13. Dead Space
Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi | Announced
Starship engineer Isaac Clarke and his salvage crew get stranded aboard the giant mining ship ishimura. Clarke must repair the ship and survive its crew who have been changed into alien ... See full summary »
14. Eliezer
Sci-Fi | Announced
A spaceship on a voyage to colonize a distant planet becomes infected with a deadly parasite and the ship becomes a flying hypodermic on a collision course with planet Earth.
Director: Damian X. Fulton
15. Assassin's Creed 2
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
Plot unknown. Planned sequel for the 2016 film 'Assassin's Creed', based on the video game.
16. God of War
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
A Spartan warrior faces off against mythological creatures in an effort to defeat Ares, the god of war. Feature film adaptation of the video game.
17. Payday: The Heist
Action | Announced
A modern day Robin Hood story based on the award winning, cult favorite Starbreeze studios online video game PAYDAY: THE HEIST. The president of a corrupt global bank joins his estranged ... See full summary »
18. Heavy Rain (I)
Adventure, Crime, Drama | Announced
Architect Ethan Mars joins a private detective, a journalist, and an FBI agent in a race against time to save his son from a child murderer known as the 'Origami Killer'.
20. Call of Duty
Action, Adventure, Thriller | Announced
Plot unknown. Feature film based on the video game 'Call of Duty'.
Director: Stefano Sollima
22. Mega Man
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Pre-production
The movie is based on the best-selling video game series developed by Capcom.
Directors: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
23. Kane & Lynch
Action, Crime, Drama | Announced
A pair of Death Row inmates, a mercenary named Kane and a schizophrenic named Lynch, escape during a prison transport and team up to retrieve a stolen fortune. Based on a video game.
24. Ghost Recon
Action, Adventure | Announced
Feature film based on the popular video game centering on a squad of U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers with state-of-the-art weapons.
Star: Derek Cappuccino Brown
25. Duke Nukem (I)
Action, Horror, Sci-Fi | Announced
Plot unknown. Feature film based on the video game 'Duke Nukem'
Star: John Cena
26. Borderlands (2024)
102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | Completed
Based on the best-selling videogame, this all-star action-adventure follows a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Gina Gershon, Cate Blanchett, Ariana Greenblatt, Jack Black
27. Infamous (I)
Action | Announced
An adaptation of the video game in which a bike messenger survives an explosion in Empire City, one which endows him with super powers.
28. Castlevania
Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | Announced
Christopher Belmont takes up the whip against the darkness of Count Dracula, which plagues the lands of Transylvania every 100 years. As he fights the evil, the origins of the Belmonts' eternal struggles are finally revealed.
29. Far Cry
Animation, Action, Adventure | Announced
Feature film based on the video game 'Far Cry' in which an a former Special Forces operative tracks down a missing journalist.
30. The Sims
Comedy, Drama | Announced
This movie is based on the video game the Sims
Director: Kate Herron
31. Driver (I)
Action, Adventure, Crime | Announced
An undercover cop named Tanner posing as a getaway driver risks his life in order to infiltrate a crime ring based in four of America's biggest cities.
32. Clock Tower
Horror, Thriller | Announced
A woman is tormented by an evil that has haunted her family for generations, but the only man who believes her is the psychiatrist she meets in a mental institution. Together they must find the source of her family's damnation and then fight for their lives, until the curse is finally laid to rest.
34. Army of Two (I)
Action, Adventure | Announced
Tyson Rios and Elliot Salem are two ex Army Rangers turned contractors for SSC, a Private Military Corporation. They take on various individuals and organizations located all over the world... See full summary »
35. Hitman 2
Action, Crime, Thriller | Announced
At a low point in his life, Agent 47 endeavors to regain his spot atop of pantheon of elite assassins.
36. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.
Directors: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Pierre Leduc, Fabien Polack | Stars: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black
Votes: 237,371 | Gross: $574.93M
37. Sly Cooper
Animation, Action, Adventure | Announced
Orphaned raccoon, Sly Cooper, discovers that he comes from a long line of highly-skilled, international thieves. Based on the 'Sly Cooper' video games.
Director: Kevin Munroe | Stars: Ian James Corlett, Matt Olsen, Chris Murphy
38. Dragon's Lair: The Movie
Animation, Action, Adventure | Announced
Dirk the Daring, a knight who sets out to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe and a wizard named Mordroc.
Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman | Star: Ryan Reynolds
41. Dante's Inferno (I)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
Feature film based on the video game, 'Dante's Inferno', about a knight named Dante, who battles through the nine rings of hell to rescue his beloved Beatrice.
Director: Fede Alvarez
42. Firewatch
Adventure, Drama, Mystery | Announced
Based on the popular video game about Two Fire lookouts becomes in the center what seem to be a conspired mystery in the Wyoming wilderness.
Star: Cissy Jones
43. Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
PG-13 | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. During his first night on the job, he realizes that the night shift won't be so easy to get through. Pretty soon he will unveil what actually happened at Freddy's.
Director: Emma Tammi | Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard
Votes: 93,702
44. Fruit Ninja
Action | Announced
Plot unknown. Live-action feature film based on the mobile app game.
45. Gran Turismo (2023)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Based on the unbelievable, inspiring true story of a team of underdogs - a struggling, working-class gamer, a failed former race car driver, and an idealistic motorsport exec - who risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, Takehiro Hira
Votes: 100,638
46. Minecraft (2025)
Action, Adventure, Family | Post-production
The malevolent Ender Dragon sets out on a path of destruction, prompting a young girl and her group of unlikely adventurers to set out to save the Overworld.
Director: Jared Hess | Stars: Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Jennifer Coolidge, Kate McKinnon
49. Shinobi (I)
Action, Adventure, Family | Announced
Based off the popular video game by Sega
Stars: Sou Watanabe, Nagomu Kawai, Jungo Oka
51. Streets of Rage
Action, Adventure, Crime | Announced
Feature film based on the 1991 SEGA video game
52. Tetris 2
Sci-Fi | Announced
Plot unknown. Part of a planned 'Tetris' trilogy from Threshold Global Studios.
53. Spy Hunter
Action, Adventure | Announced
An ex-fighter pilot rids the world of spies, assassins, and other vermin with his souped-up Interceptor car.
54. Carmen Sandiego
Action, Adventure, Family | Announced
A live-action feature film based on Carmen Sandiego.
Star: Gina Rodriguez
55. Just Dance
Comedy | Pre-production
Plot unknown. Described as an ensemble comedy inspired by the Ubisoft video game 'Just Dance'.
57. Rabbids
Animation, Comedy | Announced
Large, crazy rabbits known as Rabbids like to cause havoc and mischief.
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
58. Shadow of the Colossus
Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
A man named Wander attempts to bring a maiden who was sacrificed back to life by defeating a series of colossal stone creatures, so that a magical being named Dormin will revive her.
59. Tomb Raider 2
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
Sequel to the 2018 reboot.
Director: Misha Green
60. Just Cause
Action, Adventure | Announced
The story of a deadly CIA black ops assassin code-named the Scorpio, who specializes in regime changes, battles pirates, mercenaries and rogue agents.
61. Ruiner
Action, Sci-Fi | Announced
In a dystopian future, a corporation extracts emotions from the poor and sells them to the wealthy elite. A skilled fighter with a hacked implant tries to resist the company's control and save his captured brother.
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