GamesBeat Summit 2025: Why trust and authenticity are key to Hollywood adaptations

Video games modifications continue to make a large splash in Hollywood. Minecraft movie He got more than $ 900 million via theaters worldwide. The second season of HBO’s Another of us He received delirium reviews, with a third business season. And more films based on games and TV shows-in that second season of Amazon’s He falls And complement to Super Mario Bros. – On the way.

According to The Hollywood and Games Talk in Gamesbeat Summit 2025 in Los Angeles, everything shared all these successful adjustments is a commitment to originality. They pick up the concession spirit they are based and took a long time to understand what made these games very special in the first place.

“I think the thing that the best films achieved is actually listening to the fan base,” said Mourin Van, CEO of Baobab Studios in the painting. “In Hollywood, there is this [attitude of]”I am creative, I know the best.” And I feel that the reasons why these films are better are that they have already listened. “

Part of this includes bringing people to focus groups, but it is also important to speak regularly to indigenous creators as well. When working on IP modifications to video games, FAN and her team meet with developers on a monthly basis to check their fans ’feeling about the project.

“My background is to search the user experience, so I really appreciate it [process]. The fans said: “This is something that my team had to learn.” My participating creativity officer was the only product of Manna. So they come from this world “I know the best.” But over the past years, we have been present all over, and they have now reached the point they are eager to this data. They want to talk to the audience, especially when you do the things of Gen Z and you are of a different generation. “

Another factor is the talent behind the camera. While it seems that film and television companies in the arms race around the IP chase of major games, the interactive ALCON president, George Collins, believes that it will become important to the place of associating those properties with the appropriate managers and writers, especially those who have a unique view or can say something new with the brand.

“If you are thinking about things like Greta Gerwig, do Barbie, or [Phil] Lord and [Christopher] “Miller does Lego – they could have been horrific films,” Collins said. [specific] Idea, they took it in directions you did not expect. This is what made them good. “

But since this last list of movies and TV shows were, there are still a lot of big names like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto that have not jumped to Hollywood yet. For Dan Prigg, President Skydance Inacive, one of the main reasons for it is related to the cost.

Brig said: “You will not get Grand Theft Auto for anything cheap these days, and this is only for licensing fees, right?” Then you aim at the actual production value that you must enter to match the level of expectations that I think is the audience [would have] People only looked at the spreadsheet and were like “No, this is a great danger.” It can be great success, but it is also a great danger. “

Collins noted that Call of Duty in particular was floating around Hollywood for a short period, but the problem is less than the cost and more about finding the text and the right story.

“I think it seems that you should get a text, either a pilot or theatrical text, which you believe in,” Collins said. “You should be able to attach the people you know can make a good movie or a good TV show, which is a good view. This is not easy as you think.”

Without the talent and the right story behind the project, you are risked to cancel the movie brand, but also on the reputation of the game and the developer. Once again when Fan was the Vice President of Games at Zynga, I remembered how Farmville’s success attracted a Hollywood person who wanted to make a Farmville TV program. She said no at the time, on the pretext that the game was already making a lot of money and did not want to risk destroying her reputation.

“There is a lot of negative aspects because if someone adapts to my Karbi, they will raise my brand and be at risk to the main revenue stream or disturb Republican members, and my players, right?