Way back in January, Square-Enix’s Yoshinori Kitase teased that he would “would love to see something come out of [major Hollywood] creators in terms of a cinematic or some kind of visual piece” for Final Fantasy – VII, specifically – though he also admitted that nobody was actually negotiating anything.
When I first read the headline, I had a half second of excitement until I realized it was VII and not XIV. Awww. I may not play FFXIV, but I would be super thrilled to see another MMO get a big production. Sure, some of the past movie and TV spectacles in our genre have been messy, and others were promised and never happened, but we’ve had one or two in our orbit that actually took off, one that’s run for years, and another one on the horizon. It’d be a rising tide to lift all boats.
Which MMORPG deserves its own movie or TV series? Is anything out there particularly suited to it?
Every morning, the Massively Overpowered writers team up with mascot Mo to ask MMORPG players pointed questions about the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre. Grab a mug of your preferred beverage and take a stab at answering the question posed in today’s Daily Grind!
