The “Hollywood Reporter” asked its readers which games should be made into movies, and here are the Top 20 responses . . . along with the percentage of people who’d be interested:
1. “Super Mario Bros.”, 44% . . . Of course, there was that bizarre 1993 “Super Mario Bros.” movie with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. And there’s already an animated Mario movie in the works.
2. A tie between “Pac-Man” and “Mario Kart”, 37%
4. “Donkey Kong”, 36%
5. “Grand Theft Auto”, 34%
6. “Call of Duty”, 32%. There’s currently a movie in the works.
7. “The Legend of Zelda”, 31%
8. A tie between “Super Smash Bros.” and “Tetris”, 28%.
There’s supposedly been a “Tetris” movie in development since 2016.
10. “Halo”, 26%
11. “Final Fantasy”, 24%
12. “The Oregon Trail”, 23%
13. “Red Dead Redemption”, 22%
14. “Minecraft”, 20%
15. “Fortnite”, 19%
16. A tie between “The Elder Scrolls” and “Spyro the Dragon”, 17%
18. “Metroid”, 15%
19. “Pong”, 14%
20. “Starcraft”, 13%
(Hollywood Reporter) (Skip to Page #15 for the video game stuff.)