Bet you weren't expecting this...

http://imdb.com/title/tt0484895/

tragic, no?

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at, Researcher.

You mean a film?

I very much doubt it. TV series are also registered on IMDb, which is itself a very unreliable and oft-inaccurate source of information anyway.

Mick

VG= Video game

I haven't heard much else from any other place, but given the recent wave of film-based video games, it's possible.

Reservoir dogs is being made into a game! A spokesperson for it said it was "very true to the film". Taxi Driver has been made into a game...two weeks after the film, Betsy is gunned down by the mob and Travis goes after her killers. Apparently a bit like GTA except wanton violence will lose you the game...or something stupid.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/12/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/

confirmed.

How is that "tragic"?

Something that could very well be tragic is Fergie from Black Eyed Peas being in the new saeson.

Tragic? Because I don't think a drama as great as The Sopranos should be cheapened by a video game.

Maybe. But I wouldn't mind seeing her lovely lady lumps.

Please explained how it is cheapened by one?

i read in Arena Magazine (british gents lifestyle...ie not porn magazie) that a Sopranos game was on the cards.

Similarly Scarface and of course, as we all know, The Godfather.

I can understand how some may see this as cheapening The Sopranos; after all, The Sopranos has a lot to say about comntemporary life. The effect of the subtle humour and genius writing could be quite massively affected by making it into a video game...i mean video games are video games...they are not intended to make culutral statements or be a commentary of twenty-first century America...they are purely there to entertain, they are culturally disposable by their very nature.

Indeed, i might even go so far as to say that The Sopranos game might actually cause a great deal of annoyance and even anquish within this board...for it certainly shall affect the way we view the show both past episodes and future.

A movie similarly would not be able to do what Chase has created over 5 series. Unless of course it is a real epic on the scale of Once Upon a Time in America or The Godfather Part two.

If you think it will cheapen it, don't buy it. It's as simple as that. If you don't buy the game how will the series change to you? It may change some people's opinions who buy it but why should you let other people's views on the series change your own.

WOW a videogame of the sopranos...
GREAT...SO AWESOME..

I love the Sopranos, as I love the Godfather. I don't think they should be made into video games or "cheapened" as you quoted before. However, if they decide to release the Soprano video game, I will buy it. Maybe even play it.

Video games, though, are a cultural statement and a commentary on 21st century life, intended or not.

I probably won't buy it...a video game won't as such cheapen the series, but I find the idea of a sopranos video game really stupid, given that the series is a drama based more upon character interaction than tons of action. I think it's totally unnecessary, and is just a way of commercialising another mafia game. I don't think 'The Sopranos' label is really needed at all. I can't help but feel all it'll do is create more stories and history behind the characters so much inferior to what the show could have produced. But I'm not arguing with anyone who's really eager to play this game, I've got no problem with that.