Kan Gao’s tearjerker To The Moon, a sport which affected our John a lot that he nonetheless daren’t open the curtains on clear nights lest he be swept away in a torrent of his personal tears, is turning into a full-length animated film. It’s the story of docs travelling by means of the reminiscences of a dying man (with the help of a elaborate machine), seeing his life and creating new reminiscences so he can have sort-of lived his dying want: visiting the moon. At this level, John is hammering on the door as a brook flows down his physique, so I think about we’ll must make use of Ludovico Technique eyespreaders to make him watch it.
Gao doesn’t say who’s behind the “major animated feature film”, solely hinting in his announcement video that the businesses concerned are “pretty big players in the animation industry, and those who are familiar with the animation industry will probably have heard of them.” Mysterious! Gao additionally says that the funds is “pretty significant”, and that he’s been advised it’s above that of the animated film Your Name.
He doesn’t have absolute management over the movie however says he will likely be concerned with the script and supervising.
Buuut past that, it’s all a giant thriller. When it’ll come, the way it’ll be launched, what it seems like (that artwork ↑ up there’s a advertising and marketing image for the sport), and all which might be nonetheless secrets and techniques for now. But right here, he appears fairly hopeful, and has some attention-grabbing issues to say about putting a stability between faithfulness of goodfilmness in a movie adaptation:
It does appear ’un to be movified. As Johnny Dub mentioned in his To The Moon review:
“To The Moon takes on old age, regret, mental health, and love. It’s about the role of ambition versus reality, and what’s worth sacrificing. It’s a properly funny comedy, and a hanky-requiring tragedy. Games this effective are rare beasts, and when it’s disguised by such simple graphics (albeit with wonderful animation, and such detail), old-school Japanese RPG presentation (something it brilliantly jokes about very early on), no voice acting, nor photo-realistic expressions, it’s something of a feat.”
I solely play video games deemed inventive sufficient to be made into movies, so I’m excited to lastly play this; I can’t hold hammering on Tekken endlessly. Handily, the sport is half-price proper now on Steam, right down to £3.49/€3.99/$4.99.
Gao additionally notes that he’s began work on his subsequent sport. His final, after a sequence of To The Moon mini episodes, was the sequel Finding Paradise.
