Many video games have been adapted into live action movies. And although they couldn't be more different from each other, practically all of them have something in common, they are very mediocre. In fact, with a few entertaining or curious exceptions, any game-to-image conversion in the flesh is pretty bad. But yes, some of its protagonists have been cache interpreters. That's why we bring you to the best-known actors who have given life to video game characters.
There are famous actors and actresses who have wanted to be the face of legendary game characters as well.
After all, many of these computer and console titles have a bigger budget than the movies, so it's not uncommon for movies and video games to have allied themselves more than once to get even more money from us. However, it usually doesn't go well.
The sad history of videogame-to-film adaptations
The reality is that, although it has been tried many times, the history of adaptations of computer and console games to the big screen has almost always given a mediocre result.
It is clear that video games do not usually have, with a handful of honorable exceptions, very deep characters or convoluted plots. On many occasions, these are nothing more than a weak excuse to shoot or conquer planets.
And apparently, in most film adaptations they have not made an effort to do much better either. However, some have been profitable, which is what matters. And to increase the hook, they have used renowned actors and actresses.
Today we show you the main known actors who have embodied video game characters.
Keep in mind one thing, we will only talk about live action movies, no animation. And to put the face, the body and the gestures, not only the voice in the dubbing.
We start the list in chronological order with the muscles of brussels.
Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile in Street Fighter (1994)
It may be the most legendary arcade machine of all time, but the same cannot be said of its film adaptation. Jean-Claude Van Damme leads it as Guile, the American character with blond hair and military uniform that you could select on the fighter screen.
Van Damme puts the same salt shaker on it that he puts on everything and the movie is awfully bad, so it's not worth talking about, except for one thing.
In one the castings strangest possible, the legendary Raul Julia was Mister Bison, the most powerful evil. He says a sentence for the story when he is talking to Chun-Li, another of the game's characters:
«For you, the day that Bison destroyed your village was the most important of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."
Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSjoV8i3FVg
21 years since Angelina Jolie will play the legendary Lara Croft in the film tomb raider, titled as the video game.
Immersed in the world of the same, where Lara Croft tries to obtain ancient and legendary artifacts from the Illuminati, the movie is quite enjoyable if you turn off your brain
Giant robots and a trigger-happy Lara, for a much happier adaptation than that of 2018 with Alicia Vikander like Croft. Of course, Vikander will once again do Lara's legendary braid in a future second part.
Dwayne, The Rock, Johnson is the Doom Marine (2005)
Actually, in the credits he appears as Sergeant Asher "Sarge" Mahonin, but he is the main protagonist of the movie based on the video game Doom.
Don't go looking for it, because it's pretty bad.
Also, as always, you miss out on the allure and mystery of Doom's marine character, sometimes known simply as Slayer and one of whose essential characteristics is that he is an unknown soldier.
Meanwhile The Rock es The Rock in absolutely all roles. At least, this movie does not take place in a jungle, something increasingly rare in Johnson's filmography.
Mark Whalberg is Max Payne (2008)
Max Payne was a DEA agent and former New York cop in a third-person shooter video game franchise that would make three titles and a movie.
In it, the role of Max is played by Mark Whalberg, which gets us into the history of a policeman looking for the murderers of his family and his partner to get revenge.
One more of the heap, as almost all of the movies on this list actually are.
Jake Gyllenhaal is Dastan, in The Prince of Persia (2010)
The film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time It was the film adaptation of the magnificent video game series that revolutionized the platform genre with its physics. I still remember playing it constantly on that PC 486 that I had with a turbo button.
to the main character he was given the name Dastan for the film, which would also be used in later video games of the series Jake Gyllenhaal puts his important talent at the service of a passable film, but one that is the fifth most successful adaptation at the box office of a video game.
Gyllenhaal is recently recognized for being the face of Mysterio in the Marvel Universe, but better his movies Nightcrawler o Prisoners, the latter by Denis Villeneuve (Dune, ) and with Hugh Jackman / Wolverine giving him the reply.
Michael Fassbender as Aguilar in Assassin's Creed (2016)
Aguilar de Nerja is one of the elite assassins that appear in the game. Assassin's Creed: Rebellion y was played on screen by Michael Fassbender. The actor who also plays Magneto becomes a flesh and blood assassin and the suit he wears is quite well done.
That's where the virtues of a movie end. incredibly mediocre.
I still remember how Fassbender himself advertised it, saying that it was going to be like a new Matrix. The things that make them say for money. But he seemed convinced even though he was laughing on the inside, which shows that he is a good actor.
Travis Fimmel is Anduin Lothar in Warcraft (2016)
El actor, who also played Ragnar Lothbrok en Vikings, donned the armor to fight for the humans against the orcs in another forgettable video game adaptation. In this case, the legendary series Warcraft.
There, ungraciously plays Anduin Lothar, the commander-in-chief of the human forces of the kingdom of Stormwind, in a fairly flat film.
But it did well at the box office and, in fact, has the honor of being the highest-grossing video game-to-film adaptation, in front of Detective Pikachu.
Mila Jojovich is Artemis in Monster Hunter (2020)
Among the few premieres of 2020 came Monster Hunter the movie based on that kind of game that is like Jurassic Park, but with monsters from another world. Don't bother looking for it, unless you want it in the background for a Sunday nap.
The funny thing is that the movie character Artemis was not initially in the game but was later included at a special event, so technically, Mila Jojovich has incarnated a video game character.
The same does not happen with the saga resident evil. There, Jojovich plays Alice, a character who doesn't appear in any of the games, so we can't count her that way for this list.
Tom Holland is Nathan Drake in Uncharted (2022)
We close the list with the most recent famous actor to have played a video game character.
Which Uncharted It is one of the most mythical sagas of video games, no one doubts it. That the anticipation for the new film based on it is minimal, either.
We like Tom Holland, but it doesn't make sense that it's Nathan Drake in Uncharted. The film opens this year 2022 and, at least from the signs, it does not anticipate anything good. Hardly anyone liked the posters and the trailer looks like just another generic adventure, a flea market Indiana Jones and too young. Unless the surprise comes, it will not break the dynamic that prevails on this list.
In addition, for that same reason, youth have had to go make a prequel to the action of video games and, following the line of the casting most out of tune in history, Mark Whalberg is Victor Sullivan, aka Sully.
Really?
As you can see, the list of famous actors and actresses who have played video game characters is long, although it is true that it is not the most prominent part within the curriculum of none of them.