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How video game movies got good
Episode 14

How video game movies got good

Post Games · Chris Plante

August 25, 20251h 1m

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Video game adaptations threaten to replace superhero movies as Hollywood's favorite fad. How did Mario and friends evolve from box office poison into some of the most valuable IPS in movie history? Today on Post Games: an extended interview with filmmaker and video essayist Patrick H. Willems, in which we make sense of 30 years and five distinct eras of video game adaptations.

  • Act 1: The Doomed Decades
  • Act 2: The Hollywood Hits
  • A Patreon bonus: The Future of Video Game Movies. Patrick sticks around to speculate on the future of video game adaptations – including no fewer than 46 movies in active development
  • Act 3: The News of the Week

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