Christopher Nolan considering an Inception video game

From Slashfilm.com 
  
One vaguely disappointing aspect of Christopher Nolan’s film Inception was that, despite a lengthy video-game inspired training sequence in which Leonardo DiCaprio teaches Ellen Page how to physically manipulate a dream world, there isn’t much of that large-scale manipulation in the scenes that follow. (There’s a lot of flying about, yes, but not so much of the street-bending stuff.)

A perfect home for further street-warping adventures in the world of dreams would be a video game. Don’t worry: Christopher Nolan is (possibly) way ahead of us in thinking about it.

As quoted in Variety while doing press for Inception in Italy, Nolan recently said,

…one thing we are looking at doing is developing a video game based on the world of the film, which has all kinds of ideas that you can’t fit into a feature film…That’s something we’ve been talking about and are looking at doing long-term, in a couple of years.

   

How would that even work?

I'm pretty sure Tim Schafer already did that =/

Yeah, you know what would make a great movie ever better? A crappy game.

The type of stuff that inception does, would probably be logistically very, very hard to do in a videogame. Probably won't ever happen

Great idea, likely will never happen.  But we'll always have Minecraft....

I would make an Inception game if I knew how to make games. 
then I would just loop the same 5 minutes of the first level over and over again to make it a 120+ hours game and my excuse "Inception, it's like a dream within a dream within a dream...etc." 

Press X to dream.

Nolan North should be one of the voice actors.
 
Nolan-Nolan combination... *Gasp* This would be so Epiiiic!

" Am I the only one who didn't like that Matrix ripoff? And on that note, look how well the Matrix games did and that's about how well this should do. "

Ha. He's just dreaming...

" I'm pretty sure Tim Schafer already did that =/ "

Easy. Gameplay is half adventure game half stealth-actioner. Each mission is a heist. The adventure game part is the setup, finding the info, questioning the subjects subconscious. The stealthy action part is acquiring the data, it'd be like Hitman. Do it right, don't make the subconscious aware of your presence, everything goes smoothly. If something goes wrong you have to fight your way out. Don't try to be overly philosophical or clever, just use the world as a way to incorporate some good adventure elements and action gameplay. It could work, provided it had nothing directly to do with the film, none of the characters etc. 
 
Failing that, a pure adventure game with Eames as the main character.

I think Inception is better fit as a video game than as a movie. I guess the fact it was  a movie before a game makes it auto lame though. Maybe they can score a DECENT developer who wants to make a good game and not farm cash from people. 
 
People doubted War For Cybertron when the first trailer was shown, and that turned out well. So did Batman Arkham Asylum. Movies->Good games isn't impossible anymore(even though neither of those follow the plot of the movie, which the game Nolan speaks of doesn't seem to either so it's all good). 

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I would check it out.

" @YoctoYotta said:

" @uskomaton said:

" Am I the only one who didn't like that Matrix ripoff? And on that note, look how well the Matrix games did and that's about how well this should do. "

I hated Inception because the plot is full of lazy conveniences that I'd be ashamed of as a writer, but don't tell that to anyone, they'll take offense and start telling you that you just don't get it, man. "

Well, at least I'm not alone. And yeah, I get it just fine, in fact it was very easy movie to follow.  Of course it also reminds me of this one RPG session I had, years back, where we kept "waking up" when the GM noticed that we weren't exactly thrilled with the direction the story was going. (Crashed UFO exploration in a gritty espionage type world etc.) "

Maybe you play three levels with one controller at the same time.

 
I think the translation from film to game would be perfect if placed in the correct hands. Perhaps a shooter with adventure elements akin to a Starbreeze game? Or a situation where you creatively build the environment for the subject prior to the mission, then execute the plan and adapt to what the game throws at you. 
 
Who am I kidding. They'll probably copy the mechanics of Gears of War, slap "Inception" on the cover, then toss it out.

The final boss is grief.

" @uskomaton said:

" Am I the only one who didn't like that Matrix ripoff? And on that note, look how well the Matrix games did and that's about how well this should do. "

I hated Inception because the plot is full of lazy conveniences that I'd be ashamed of as a writer, but don't tell that to anyone, they'll take offense and start telling you that you just don't get it, man. "

I want to play the van level.