Ben Wheatley thinks video game movies aren’t interactive enough for viewers.
The 48-year-old director believes that movies based on video games have had a hard time adapting to cinema as gamers are unable to interact with the movie after playing the video game.
He told Polygon: “Video games have trouble crossing back into cinema because they are born out of cinema. But the magic sauce is interaction, which you’re then removing back out of the game to put it back into a film. That’s the trick the back and forth of it, and that’s why it’s been very hard to make things successful.”
It comes after the filmmaker was tapped to direct the new ‘Tomb Raider’ movie after fans were disappointed with the first film which was adapted from a video game.
The 2018 thriller flopped at the box office, having only banked $274,650,803 worldwide, and received mixed reviews.
‘Tomb Raider 2’ will see Alicia Vikander return as Lara Croft with Ben’s wife, Amy Jump, writing the script.
