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Full Throttle – fan film script by Duncan Jones [pdf]

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What are the reasons why Hollywood hasn’t yet mined the old Lucasarts games for movie ideas? They seem such natural source material.

Are there IP ownership complications?

Are the games themselves too derivative of movies (e.g. Monkey Island being inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and thus reverse-retrospectively derivative of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies)?

Would it be too hard to adapt them as comedies, or would they be too boring as non-comedies?

Is the built-in audience actually not as large as I imagine it would be?

Are there some gaming-ignorant egos involved? i.e. what lead to the 4th Indiana Jones using the lame Crystal Skull story instead of the great Fate of Atlantis story?

Is the world simply not ready for Day of the Tentacle on Disney+?

> i.e. what lead to the 4th Indiana Jones using the lame Crystal Skull story instead of the great Fate of Atlantis story?

This is a great example. I would love to know if this, specifically, has even been discussed.

Apparently Lucas Arts was part of the sale of Lucas Film to Disney.

https://screenrant.com/lucasfilm-movie-plan-lucasarts-advent...

Didn’t Spielberg work on The Dig with Lucasarts? Now that you mention it, it does seem weird they’ve never made that into a movie.

The story at the time (true or not, who knows) was that the dig was meant to be a film but was too expensive to make so it became a game instead.

The Dig was derived from a story idea for a TV episode that Spielberg was involved in (supposedly Amazing Stories). But that wasn't filmed, so the idea got finally handed down to Lucas Arts.

The scuttlebutt is that Disney executives simply don't know what LucasArts IP they bought when they bought Lucasfilm and it will likely take new blood at the executive level with some bit of videogame literacy.

Some of that might also be complicated by existing licensing contracts. For instance, it's not clear from the outside how much Double Fine (and thus Microsoft) owns now of the games they managed to remake (Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango). Maybe Microsoft has the movie rights now? That would be funny, though Microsoft's attempts at movies to date have all been cursed.

That's a good question. Maybe the screenwriter doesn't want to share royalties? Although Disney doesn't seem to care too much about that: https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/16/22166064/star-wars-alien-...

Wow. This is by the Duncan Jones of Moon, Mute, Source Code and Warcraft. [1] I would love to see it being made.

[1] https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/1348748164208021504

AKA Zowie Bowie, David Bowie's son.

That's correct, but ... there's a reason why he chose to use a different last name :)

Also, "Bowie" was just a fake name, so Duncan didn't inherit it.

AFAIK Bowie himself was still David Robert Jones and never change it legally like most other stars.

Well, “fake” isn’t exactly fair. It was his stage/equity name. He couldn’t go with his actual name because... someone was already using it.

The "someone" was Davy Jones of the Monkees, who were kind of a big deal in the sixties. It's not that he couldn't use it, but he was unhappy as the name caused confusion.

He actually very briefly went by Tom Jones, to the point of doing a photoshoot under that name, before It's Not Unusual came out and forced him to change it again.

Wow that's some bad luck! At least "Bowie" stuck after that, it's a cool name.

Fair point! Stage name is indeed a much better way to put it.

Oh I didn't know that actually. Thanks.

Also, for anyone who is not familiar with Duncan's work, Moon is an amazing movie!

Moon is amazing indeed! He's certainly among my favourite modern directors. Crazy that a son of a rockstar not only turned out to be a pretty normal guy, but also got lots of recognition purely out of talent.

I'd forgotten he did Source Code.

Moon was great. And particularly when you think about Space Oddity's "Major Tom" (and "The Man Who Fell To Earth").

The population is greatly decreased,

And now the odds are grealy increased,

That I may someday get a chance to kiss your lips.

I thank the Lord each day for the apocalypse.

Folks are mostly disfigured or dead,

But sugar, I won't let it go to my head.

My Mamma's face has dripped down into the dirt,

But I'm still chasing Chitlins, Whiskey and Skirt

That could have come from The Stand miniseries. All but the chitlins part.

For those interested in hearing the song, here's a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnD82Xh3cts

"This view defines true beauty." :)

I recall playing the Full Throttle demo over and over again when I was a kid. I finally played the full game for the first time a few years ago when I discovered it was available on steam. It was great, but I was surprised how easy it was compared to some other titles in my memory, like Day of the Tentacle, then again my problem solving skills have improved since I was a child.

FT was definitely easier than the first 2 monkey islands, DoTT or Sam & Max. All of them are worth playing (as is Loom, which is perhaps similar in difficulty to FT).

I'll just put this here to spruce up your day

[Full Throttle OST - The Gone Jackals - Born Bad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmCWmijKz0&ab_channel=MaxBl...

If you browse around YouTube you might be able to still find an edited version of all cut scenes from full throttle + some dialogue parts.

It plays pretty much like a 1 hour short film and is really good on its own.

Great. Now about “Grim Fandango”...

Not Lucas Arts, but I'm still adamant that the Gabriel Knight series would be a great trilogy in the screens without changing much! [1]

[1] Other than the infamous puzzle like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_hair_mustache_puzzle

I was joking at the time Disney bought LucasArts they did it in part to clear Pixar to sell Coco because of similarity to Grim Fandango.

The flipside is probably accurate now though, at this point Disney would probably be unlikely to greenlight a Grim Fandango film because they already have Coco.

Now about "LA Noire" !!!

Last I heard Duncan Jones was circling The Black Hole remake which I would be much more interested in.

Remakes of movies with cool ideas and poor execution make much more sense artistically, although I also understand why they're not popular commercially

Completely agree. I wish they'd do a remake of In Time - interesting concept that was poorly executed.

One of my favorite games growing up, and somehow always kept going back to it despite already knowing how to solve all the puzzles.

Seemed like a natural pivot to become a movie someday as well, though I could never see it being a smash hit at the box office.

"Put my head in a basket 'cause I'd had a tank full. When she blowed my gasket I surely was thankful. 'Til I head for the skies up above, it's a woman with wheels that I love."

"You know what might look better on your nose? The bar!"

This works with the opening song, or not at all!!!

The opening intro to Full Throttle: https://youtu.be/rf9xqsmO9m4

The Gone Jackals. Loved the soundtrack to Full Throttle.

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