Battlefield: Bad Company
What It's About: War, baby - only no war you've ever heard of. Taking a cue from the alternate landscapes of Japanese mech games, Battlefield: Bad Company brings gritty Call of Duty-esque combat scenarios to countries you've never heard of - because they don't exist. In the game, the United States is at war with the Russian Federation. The 'Bad Company' is a not-so-elite special ops unit assigned to covert operations by the virtue of their skills, and their status as rebel rousers and non-conformists. The gang is trying to earn back their standing, and their freedom - along the way being tempted by scattered treasure and the allure of a set-for-life boon. Along the way to earning their legit honorable discharge, the gang gets the idea that they might appropriate a treasure and devise their own discharge under the radar.
The 'Bad Company' of the title is comprised of of four colorful military misfits: Private Preston Marlowe, the affable everyman and main protagonist; Private Terrence Sweetwater, the brains; Private George Gordon Haggard, pyromaniac and explosives expert; and Sergeant Samuel D. Redford, the tough as nails leader of the company.
Who Should Play Who: Newly unemployed Stargate: Universe star Brian J. Smith would make a great Preston Marlowe. Dominic Monaghan could be a terrific Sweetwater, while Zachary Knighton as Haggard and Lennie James as Redford would cap a perfect cast.
Why It's Good TV: Military drama does well in general, the prospect of an entirely invented saga seems ripe for the times. Historical accuracy while making many of these attempts all that much more admirable also demands sort of a somber mood. Bad Company could essentially be an A-Team for war nuts with bigger explosions, and bigger stakes. Plus, given that most of the enemies are completely fictitious, Bad Company could portray the enemy in any way they want without worrying about offending anyone.
- Jon Lachonis
Good call on Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed. AC especially could play well in short runs on HBO or Showtime. Very twisty, lots of characters, a basis on history. Got a good mix of sci-fi and conspiracy thriller going on, easy enough to translate the action.
I don't agree about starting Mass Effect on the contact war. Wasn't that decades before Shepard in the first place? That universe is rife with internal politics, memorable locales and characters and it makes no sense to me to throw that away. I think that story is best told in a Sci-Fi prequel movie, or a "Caprica" like Spin-off down the road.
Just wait a few years until Chuck is canned to pull Yvonne Strahovski into it. Think Martin Sheen would do a stint as The Illusive Man? Seth Green as Joker? Gotta stick with the voice cast. After all, they are modeled and perfectly played by them.
Borderlands doesn't really have a story, it's mostly running around doing random tasks. Dragon Age also would make a good MOVIE, but not tv.
I think Alan Wake should be a tv show. It's already set up like one in-game.
The thing is with most games, they would make a good movie but not necessarily tv shows.
ummm…….bioshock???
Bioshock is overtly mocking a philosophy (Ayn Rand's Objectivism) that many of the wealthy and powerful seriously believe in. There's a libertarian group basically trying to replicate Rapture by building giant man-made islands. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valle…