Well friends it looks like a good director knows when to hold em and when to fold em… Gore Verbinski is done dealing with “above” the water adventures and is now going “under”.  Since he took the job of helming the Bioshock video game adaptation, the possibility of directing another Pirates film is either schedule prohibiting or he had decided he’s done with the series.  I guess he did what Sam Raimi should have done, and what Christopher Nolan is thinking of doing. To his credit he did something only dreamed of  before: creating a living, breathing, wildly popular (and profitable) franchise from a simple idea/novelty.  He looks to have…

Looks like Columbia Pictures will be bringing the characters and mystical lands in the epic game Shadow of the Colossus (or the Japanese title ‘Wander and the Colossus’) to the big screen.  This makes me happy and sad at the same time.  The idea of it becoming a film gives hope that this will be the greatest and most successful video game translation ever.  The reality of this (since they are having Justin Marks write the script) makes me weep for another failed attempt, and this one is closer to my heart than another game. Now a little back story from my perspective.  Here at GCT we all love movies…