Which movie would you most like to play as a video game?

Have you ever watched Fran­cis Ford Coppola’s har­row­ing Viet­nam War film Apoc­a­lypse Now and thought, ​‘Man, I would real­ly love to play this as a video game,’? If so, you’re in luck, because a team of video game design­ers are report­ed­ly devel­op­ing a video game ver­sion of the film in which the play­er will take on the role of Cap­tain Willard on his jour­ney to find and kill Colonel Kurtz. Sounds fun, right? They’ve even received the director’s bless­ing, with Cop­po­la releas­ing the fol­low­ing statement:

“Today, I’m joined by a team who want to make an inter­ac­tive ver­sion of Apoc­a­lypse Now, where you are Cap­tain Ben­jamin Willard amidst the harsh back­drop of the Viet­nam War. I’ve been watch­ing video games grow into a mean­ing­ful way to tell sto­ries, and I’m excit­ed to explore the pos­si­bil­i­ties for Apoc­a­lypse Now for a new plat­form and a new generation.”

The mak­ers are hope­ful that the game, which is being fund­ed by a Kick­starter cam­paign, will be com­plet­ed by 2020 – back­ers will have a chance to try out a beta ver­sion of the game in 2019, just in time for the film’s 40^th anniversary.

We’re con­fi­dent that Apoc­a­lypse Now will work well as a game. The film itself is almost struc­tured like a series of mis­sions on the way to the ulti­mate boss lev­el. And there’s plen­ty of scope for action-heavy boat chas­es, heli­copter bat­tles and tiger chas­es. It will cer­tain­ly be inter­est­ing to see how the writ­ers and devel­op­ers opt to immerse play­ers in this bloody and con­tro­ver­sial conflict.

The news has got us think­ing about which oth­er clas­sic films we’d like to see turned into video games. Per­haps The Blues Broth­ers, where the aim is to get the band back togeth­er while evad­ing the cops (and Nazis, and a red­neck coun­try band, and Jake’s deranged girl­friend). Or The Big Lebows­ki, where you play The Dude on a rug-relat­ed plat­form game caper through LA’s seedy under­bel­ly. Or how about The Revenant reimag­ined as an endurance-test­ing FPS sur­vival game? Or a third-per­son Dri­ve shoot­er, which come to think of it would basi­cal­ly just be GTA…

Which movie would you most like to play as a video game? Let us know @LWLies