John Woo tried to make a Metroid movie with Nintendo, but Catwoman killed him

For years, Nintendo did not want to have anything to do with Hollywood. After the disaster of the 1993 film Super Mario Bros. The company has organized an almost impenetrable wall, refusing to licensed its greatest franchises for film adaptations.

Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario AND ZeldaIt was particularly stopped in this position. According to former advertising director Nintendo of America Gail TildenIt didn’t matter who was knocked. He said, even “if Stephen Spielberg himself” wanted to make a Zelda film, the answer was still not.

But not everyone in Nintendo felt in the same way. Metroid co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto was open to the idea and for a short moment, a Metroid The film has almost become a reality, with the legendary action director John Woo (Hard boiled, face/off, mission: impossible 2) at the helm.

With Metroid Prime By postponing the franchise on the gamecube, the times seemed perfect. According to Tilden, Woo and his team were serious about the project:

“John Woo’s company … she wanted to launch a Metroid Movies. We had several meetings, it took a long time. Sometimes we talked about who should play Samus. Should it be Charlize Theron? It should be … no, it’s not right.

“Anyway, he was turned on and turned on for the actresses who could see like Samus. That we have never opted at all. I think they thought [Samus is] It is not such a beauty, unlike the species of athlete. “

It is wild to think about how close we have been to see a Metroid Woo movie! But just as the momentum was building, the entire project collapsed. Hit a wall with which he had nothing to do with Metroid. The problem was the reluctance of Hollywood to invest in action films led by women and the only movie he sealed MetroidDestiny was Catwoman (2004).

Halle Berry’s Catwoman He had to demonstrate that the action film led by women could be successful. Instead, he bombed hard on the box office and with critics. That failure sent shock waves in the sector and any big budget film starring female suddenly became a difficult sale.

“We had several history angles that we launched or presented and finally landed on something and made a shooting kit and we pulled it out. The budget level that would be necessary to make the film was significant.

“At the time, the only female action film that had been released was that of Halle Berry CatwomanAnd it didn’t work well. So, John Woo’s company launched MetroidBut we didn’t do a sale. “

And so, the project is dead. This sucks. What Hallowood did not realize is that it was the screenplay and the story for Catwoman who sucked, not that fact that it was a film led by Feamle. There are many successful Foamle LED movies that came before!

In these days, Nintendo has become much more open to cinematographic adaptations. Miyamoto supervised personally The Super Mario Bros. filmand a live-action Legend of Zelda Film, who is now in the process of are with Sony.

But despite these films Nintendo on the horizon, there was no word Metroid get another blow. But it would certainly be fantastic if Nintendo actually had actually produced a Metroid Movie!

It would have been really interesting to see what a Metroid movie directed by John Woo would be like! Such a missed opportunity for a film that could have been fantastic.

You still would like to see a Metroid Movie? And who would you like Samus?

Source: Foundation for the history of video games