They're Making a BLOODBORNE MOVIE??

LET'S GO. APPARENTLY, THERE'S A BLOODBORNE MOVIE. Bloodborne came back. Bloodborne video game getting R-rated animated, not anime, movie adaptation from Sony. Oh man, nobody saw that [ __ ] coming, dude. And I have a couple presumptions on this, but let's go ahead and read all the official listing about what happened. But I think Jack also made a video talking about it. So, PlayStation's Bloodborne is being developed into an R-rated animated feature for Sony Pictures that the studio says will embrace the carnage that made the game so popular. The rumored film would be very true to the gory spirit of Bloodborne, which follows a traveler who journeys into a gothic city full of nightmarish creatures. That is a summarization. That's layer one. The craziest news is that the film has been co-produced by PlayStation Productions Lyrical Animation. I don't know what these guys did before. I have to check that out. And creator and gamer uh Seán William McLoughlin, Jacksepticeye better known as Jacksepticeye for the initiated, is a gamer who has spent the years in the world of Bloodborne where his digital adventures are tracked by 48 million online fans. God damn. This fan base is crazy. That is so big. That's pretty much it. There's a lot of video game movie adaptations happening right now. The fact that Sony made the choice to jump into making a Bloodborne movie is something cuz what's the last time Sony jumped in and did a Sony Pictures feature film video game adaptation? Is it technically Uncharted? Gran Turismo, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, there was a Ratchet animated movie as well. Does this mean that there is a new Bloodborne game coming out? As someone that has been aware of how some of these tie-ins work and have spoken to a lot of people behind them, no. [laughter] Uh my genuine thoughts are no. I think it could stir up interest, but those different sides of PlayStation marketing do not work in tandem, my dude. Netflix DMC, it's like no. No, it does not have a direct reflection. Like the DMC thing just came out. Resident Evil movies just come out. Street Fighter movie is weirdly coming out before the 40th anniversary. Like Mario Galaxy just came out and there's no new 3D Mario game. And the Mario Galaxy collection was like years ago. What I'm trying to say is that the marketing efforts of film adaptations and the production studios that go behind them and all the like the sort of energy that gets put into that does not directly correlate to like making games. It does not. And that's kind of the what I'm feeling right now. This is sort of like a few years ago, there was a Bloodborne comic, like an entire Bloodborne comic book series. That was really cool and really well done. But did that end up doing or mean anything for the future of Bloodborne? No, that was like that was like five years ago or something like that. This is sort of the same thing. Things just sort of happened in the background because someone was passionate about it. And I almost guarantee you Sony wasn't going out and fishing, "Hey, who's out here to make a Bloodborne comic?" And then they're like, "Send this out into the ether and whoever's going to come back with your Bloodborne pitches, bring it on. Let's make some No, no, no. It was likely the publisher or, you know, some creative heads that had some power were like, "We would love to do a Bloodborne comic. Hey, Sony friends, what do you think about this?" And they're like, "Fuck it." They're probably like, "Yeah, sure." with no direct tie-in to anything. I think Seán or Jacksepticeye I don't know a ton about him, but I do know that he's a huge Bloodborne fan. I'm pretty sure that he is indubitably super passionate about Bloodborne, likes it just as much as me and many of the other super hardcore Bloodborne fans that are out there, had the eyes and ears of probably some people at PlayStation, you know, or PlayStation Productions or that kind of stuff. And I'm I'm assuming that made a pitch that he would be super down to do it, that he would be down and willing to and all that kind of [ __ ] And then all of a sudden they start seeing that oh, somebody with like 50 million, you know, online fans wants to sort of champion this project. Wow, maybe this could be a thing. The good thing is an animation instead of a live action? Um I think either one could have been severely cool. Another thing that we got to talk about is like people are like, "Oh god, it's going to be a Jacksepticeye movie." And listen, I don't have anything against Jacksepticeye. That's where the sentence ends. It's that that's all I got. That That was just That That was actually a period there. I personally feel that I kind of have always seen this as a movie in my head cuz it does fit a really cool motion picture style. Like getting some real cool actor as a hunter or something like that or some of the older, you know, character portrayals. Jesus Christ, man. Could you [ __ ] imagine the casting in this [ __ ] which can still happen? I just want to see some like I want to see some crazy people in their faces. Stellan Skarsgård could play an incredible character in this world. I just feel that like just getting some of that raw ass acting and emotion out of some people. I wanted to see that on their faces. I wanted to see people like Willem Dafoe. I It's It's so difficult to ask because like I want to see people with actually interesting faces. You know what I mean? People that actually have character to their faces and they light well and they have cool shadows on them and [ __ ] like that. It's like this could have been [ __ ] really neat. I think either way, I actually do not necessarily want it to be in like the the sort of traditional Netflix-y kind of style that we've seen in DMC and like Castlevania. I don't think I necessarily want that. I think it should be like really stylized in some way. I really hope it is if especially if it's animated. Something that is not identical to a show like Arcane, but definitely has a very very distinct visual look to it. I still think this is neat. I still think it's going to be celebrated, but I'm one of those guys that like does not necessarily need my games to be made into movies. I hope for the best and I want it to be great and I'll be be supporting it 100% of the way. But man, I think that like if there's one thing that most of us want like 11 years later, here's a movie. Well, it was like six years later, here's a comic. And then 11 years later, here's a movie, you know? Like that kind of stuff. I don't know if that's exactly what I was looking for. But I mean, dude, I'll take what I can get. And to be honest, the fact that someone is in charge of it or is a producer of it, that Jacksepticeye is a producer and he is as passionate as he is about the project, I have full faith that he's going to get the right talent in the right places. A lot of people YouTubers directing it and I'm like No, he's a producer. And then I realized I have to explain what a producer is, what an executive producer is, what a director actually is. A producer is not the director, is not the writer. [music] A producer is somebody that's effectively getting the film made. It's their responsibility to make sure the project continues, gets made, the right people are put in places, that things get made. It's their job to make sure everyone's working on time. In fact, one of the hardest jobs on a film set is a producer. Because they just have to be aware of everything. So, that's a lot. Like I was actually pretty surprised to see that he would be a producer of some kind, which is an astronomical task for a a film production. Especially an animated film production. Like holy crap, dude. It's a lot of heavy lifting. That's still great. I still actually I actually have a lot of faith that he'll find the appropriate people. Markiplier did it, so he can. Mark did that with like blood, sweat, and tears and a passion project and a skeleton crew. You realize that, right? Mark's movie he had to create a render farm in his house to produce the visual effects, man. He did not have Sony Pictures behind him helping out. Like no, this is very different. And the the problem with Sony being behind it is that when you're a producer, you also have to meet the demands of all the people that are higher up that are going to be providing the money and need to see dailies and all that kind of [ __ ] You have to make all appease all those people as well. So, it's a lot. It's a big It's a big job. And I actually really appreciate that somebody that's as passionate about Bloodborne as all of us is going to be doing it. I hope for the best. I can't wait to see it. I hope it's going to be cool. I think a lot of us are definitely feeling like, "Bro, we want a game." [music]