10 Video Games That Should Be Movies (And Who Should Direct Them)

10. David Fincher's Firewatch

The Game:

Developed by Campo Santo and published by Panic, Firewatch is a first person adventure game that takes place in the wilderness of 1989 Wyoming. The player is in control of a man named Henry, a fire lookout stationed in Shoshone National Forest who becomes entangled in the disappearance of two teenage girls.

While Henry did come across the drunken teens - who accused him of leering - he knows nothing of their whereabouts. When he finds his watchtower ransacked and notices that he is being followed by a cloaked figure, he realises that something strange is going on in his forest, and he is now involved in it whether he wants to be or not.

Why David Fincher:

With a CV that boasts titles like Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl, David Fincher knows his way around a thriller. What all those films have in common, apart from style and substance in abundance, is a protagonist attempting to solve a mystery they don't quite understand.

The search for truth is a recurring theme in Fincher's work, and Firewatch's Henry certainly fits the model.

Another Fincher trait that would work well with Firewatch's story is that of the unreliable narrator. Ben Affleck in Gone Girl, Ed Norton in Fight Club, Kevin Spacey in House of Cards - they are the ones telling us how it is, but we're never entirely sure we can trust them.

This angle would work perfectly with Henry's situation, and with plenty of shocking twists and turns to play with (including the discovery of a mummified child) Fincher could bring this game to life.