22. CHALLENGE MODE: Brief synopsis of script
If I could turn any game into a movie, what would it be?
Oooooh. I used to be way into questions like this, but the quest for video games to be validated as serious art is a cause for the young and innocent. I’m past my prime in that department.
That being said... maybe it’s because I’m partial but I think Bloodborne would make a fantastic flick. Give it some brief, vague exposition up top, have our main character be a stranger to the city but join the hunt in an effort to escape the city/cure their terminal disease with blood ministration. Have that be a ticking clock for them, and make that their journey. There’s even characters you could include; Eileen would be your big co-star, I think. There’s also the Doll and Gehrman, but potentially Alfred as well -- we could throw in the Vilebloods as a sub-faction our hero must defeat. Maybe mix them with the Choir and Micolash and have them trying to bring about The One Reborn, or raise Ebrietas to harness Her powers. Our hero discovers the true nature of the beastly disease and the old blood and the city of Yharnam, has a bunch of big and bloody monster fights, and close with a personal duel between our protagonist and Gehrman. End ambiguously, of course.
You’d lose the weird storytelling that make From’s games special, and you’d have to cut a bunch out to streamline it, but we’d gain a new ultraviolent horror-action movie, and they just don’t make enough of those!
