Ratchet & Clank and Heavenly Sword Will Become Animated Films

Heavenly Sword....why?

Not sure if video game looks exactly like movie, or if movie looks exactly like video game.

I'm okay with this as long as it's done as good, if not better, than the CG cutscenes in A Crack in Time. I remember being highly impressed with them.

The animation in that video looks good...except for the lip synching. That seems way off. Weird.

@wolfmanjenkins: Kids dude. Kids are excited about the idea.

No offence to R&C, obviously a sweet franchise, but it's easy to tell who the movie's aimed at.

I'm more than ok with both of these happening.

Never played a rachet and clank so I'm obviously more excited about the Heavenly Sword movie. It was a good game

I'm all for more games like R&C. Funny, bright, colourful, just an all-out game and proud of it. And I've enjoyed every single one of their releases mechanically, I love the way they play.

I hope Anna Torv will be coming back to voice Nariko. I also hope the movie doesn't suck.

Why?

That teaser was brilliant, and I could see a Ratchet and Clank movie totally working. I'm in for the first one at least.

I'm actually more excited for the Heavenly Sword movie. I'd love it if they used the same art style of the five shorts that were made for the game.

If it ever comes out I hope it's well promoted so that, when it does ok, that there is a possibility of a game sequel.

Wow about time Sony finally does something else with Heavenly Sword. No one can blame that game for not being able to sell a $600 console that wasn't able to do anything more then $400 competitor was doing! (lets forget blu-ray exist, because it didn't really matter for games in the end) I have played Heavenly Sword from beginning to end and really did enjoy it and would be more interested in a sequel.

Ratchet and Clank 3D's models look better than ever. This is some A+ grade CGI. You can actually see the detail in Ratchet's fur. Impressive, after watching that teaser I'm sold. 2015 come quicker!

I don't know how I didn't notice it before, but Ratchet & Clank is one of the most immediately film-make-able games ever made.

Weird!

Recent R&C games haven't been great but excited for the movie because the story in the mainline R&C games were really funny and actually fairly well told

More interested in Heavenly Sword. The story for HS would actually make a great action blockbuster.

Now, the combat and gameplay needed a lot of work.

Here's to hoping they can get the wonderful acting of Andey Serkis back for the project.

@boodoug187: because it already exists. it's called tomb raider. and it has ta tas. WIN!

@bbk: I second that we need more games with creative art design aside from the indie games. Makes you yearn for the PS2 era when we had a bit of everything.

@ironscimitar: no it wasn't

If Ratchet and Clank comes out before The Goon I will smash my face through the nearest piece of asphalt.

@penguindust: Sony Pictures Animation isn't even involved. Did you read the article?

OMG Rainmaker, creators of Reboot, Beast Wars and several other great 90s/early 2000s cgi shows are making a RnC movie? FUCKING SOLD GIVE ME A DATE AND LOCATION>

This could be the first good movie adaptation of a video-game ever.

I predict that Heavenly Sword will go straight to digital/disk & have a game launch on Vita along side it.

I also predict that R&C will never release. Large studios can't seem to figure out how to produce video game movies without a sexed up lead character.

@yadilie: If you can't see why we need more colourful game worlds with personality and charm instead of the endless onslaught of brown shooters then you are in the wrong hobby.

Heavenly Sword was awesome so cool!

Know what? A Ratchet and Clank movie actually sounds brilliant. I could see it being a legitimately good film

The graphics look JUST like a Pixar Movie!

Ratchet and Clank could be cool but I have the feeling they'll kiddie it up too much and it will turn out like Planet 52, Fly Me to the Moon or Space Chimps. I assume this will be done by Sony Pictures Animation. They've been hit or miss over recent years. Pirates Band of Misfits and Arthur Christmas were good but I didn't think much of Hotel Transylvania, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Open Season. Surf's Up was an okay-if-on-cable movie, too.

Ratchet and Clank (like Oddworld) seem tailor-made for the feature animation treatment, but looking at most of the mediocrity that passes for animated entertainment from Hollywood (no more Ice Age, please!), I don't have high hopes.

I would have preferred if Heavenly Sword was a live-action B-movie like Red Sonja or Barbarian Queen.

I am SO wet with anticipation right now.

Awesome! If this does well which I think to kid audiences and fans of the series (me) it may help with giving hope for videogame movies. If its done by the developer or someone who gives a shit about the series and not some Hollywood jack off videogame movies could be done well I think

The non-interactive parts of Heavenly Sword were the best parts. This sounds like a solid plan for a quality experience, but I just don't know how it could be financially viable (since, you know... who the fuck cares for the Heavenly Sword IP at this point?).

The R&C movie looks like it perfectly captures the spirit of the games. I am especially pleased that they are using the voice cast from the games. This seems like it has been the endgame for that series since it first started. I am kinda excited to see it. Heavenly Sword could be cool too I guess. I haven't thought about that game since I first beat it about 5 years ago, and since I doubt too many people played it, I wonder what the thinking was for picking up this IP. I will probably check it out when it shows up inevitably on Netflix instant.

Interesting though I'd rather have a live action Alan Wake movie (based on the game + DLC + maybe American Nightmare).

Oh, sweet Jesus, please get as much of the VO talent from the games as possible. Otherwise, it's a shame that the Heavenly Sword movie doesn't appear to be getting much effort put into it, but I feel like Ratchet and Clank is one of the first times I've looked at the potential of a video game franchise to be translated to film and gone "yeah, that actually seems really smart."

Insomniac has done some of the best humor and even straight emotion in the business when they're at the top of their game. Here's hoping that can make the transition intact and we can have a successful thing with this.

@boodoug187: Because to studios a live action makes more sense for me though I would rather it see it animated far less for the studio to screw up.

Never thought this would happen I hope it turns out great hard to believe its been a little over a decade since the first Ratchet game was released.

Heavenly Sword isn't Heavenly Sword without performance capture.

That R&C trailer was great. It's amazing to see how far the animation quality has come since the first game.

Funny how we know more about the R&C movie than the Warcraft movie.

The humor in that Ratchet and Clank trailer isn't really clicking with me, but it's still one of the few game series that make sense as a animated film.

Unless you are Studio Ghibli, doing "mundane" or something approximating the real world for an animated movie never works.

In that respect the idea of doing a Heavenly Sword movie makes a lot of sense. It is a series that they can try this plan out on without risking their precious big value Uncharted. If the Heavenly Sword movie tanks, then no one will care. If an Uncharted movie is tried and tanks there is a bit more teeth gnashing and wailing.

What's up with all the Heavenly Sword hate... or disinterest as it were? It was a great game, with an awesome story. The animated series released in parts before the game was fantastic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTAlCA-CLZM

I'm into it!

I've not played all of them but I love Ratchet and Clank.

The best part of the game, the cutscenes and king bohan.

I just realized that I knew James A Taylor when I was growing up. I remember when he was trying to get the loony tunes voice roles, he had a reel where he did a Shakespeare sketch (I don't remember now which one) with all them. He also helped my family do a radio show we did (just for fun, we did it for the family during christmas) in his studio. He also went to the same church as me and my family at the time. That was a long time ago.

I know this is not really what this article was about, but my mind is literally blown right now is all. He's done voices in several things in video games since then and I never knew.

So weird.

Man, celebrity stunt casting in animation sucks.

I sort of feel like a Ratchet and Clank movie would've been more appropriate during the height of the series' popularity. That said, I think R&C is far better suited for film than most game franchises and with good writers this good be fucking rad.

Not everyone is dead inside.

Kai better be in the HS movie. SHE BETTER BE.

Need more twingtwang.