From Tabletops to Movie Screens
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
People play games for the same reason they watch movies: escapism. And yet Tabletop-to-Big Screen adaptations have been pretty putrid up until very recently.
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
People play games for the same reason they watch movies: escapism. And yet Tabletop-to-Big Screen adaptations have been pretty putrid up until very recently.
by Hunter Bush
Hello again good people and welcome to another installment of Everything Old is New Again, my bi-monthly column on Adaptations, Remakes and Legacy Sequels. If any of those terms are new to you, allow me to elucidate: an adaptation is a work based on any pre-existing work; a remake is when a film is made again as though it were the first time; a legacy sequel or long-gap sequel is the continuation of a franchise that has been lying dormant for some time; and while I'm at it, when I say bi-monthly, I mean "occurring every two months" not "occurring twice a month". So this EOINA will cover all the movies and such that fall into any of those categories coming to screens big and small in November and December.
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