Despite being released less than a month ago, The Last of Us comes in at #3 in all-time top TV series video game adaptations. Arcane, adapted from the popular game League of Legends, came in at number 1. For movies, Uncharted topped the list. Interestingly, both Sonic the Hedgehog movies also made a list.
History has shown us Hollywood has an easy time adapting a good video game into a bad movie. The mid-1990s saw a handful of video game adaptations, including movies based on the popular fighting games Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.
1993 production of Super Mario Bros. That film boasted an expensive-for-its-time budget of almost $50 million, and a cast that included Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, and Dennis Hopper. Predicated on a truly bizarre decision to translate the colorful, whimsical world of Shigeru Miyamoto’s incredibly popular and influential Mario games into a dark, weird, and uncharacteristically violent sci-fi dystopia, the movie was a critical failure and a box office bomb, bringing in just $20 million.
There have been some exceptions to the rule let’s take a look at the list.
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