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do you think that someday this would be turned into a movie, starting with the 1st game? with real people not CG. a trilogy kinda like LOTR, or maybe even longer. who would be a good director and april ryan?
shareI don't know if I'd want to see The Longest Journey/Dreamfall with real people. First of all, they'll never find actors who look like the characters, with an adaptation from a book they can use a lot of creative license if they want but it's a lot harder with a game. We know what April looks like and sounds like, it would be hard for any player to get into the movie or suspend disbelief when the protagonist is so starkly different from the original platform.
shareFinding an actor/actress who can be made to look like the characters in the game is not too much of a problem.
See this picture:
http://www.longestjourney.com/globalGFX/katja.jpg
(She's Katja Koopmann, a Germand model who was hired for TLJ promotional events in Germany in 2000.)
I think the bigger problem would actually be acting, i.e. recreating April Ryan in case of a TLJ movie as we know her from the game. In the English version of TLJ, Sarah Hamilton has made such a strong impression on me that I can hardly imagine if any other actress could make me believe she's the same April.
Moreover, TLJ's long and elaborate story should be simplified and shortened for a feature-length film. And there's no chance distributors will invest in another LOTR-sized trilogy movie every now and then. (SW and LOTR are huge exceptions even for the largest studios.)
P.S. I've yet to receive Dreamfall so I can't reflect on that.
Hey, that's a nice photo. I kinda agree though, i think it might be hard to find an actress who can do the voice of April and still look something like her. I wonder what Sarah Hamilton herself looks like?
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