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

The Game:

Though it was something of a commercial failure upon release in 1999, RPG Planescape: Torment has since become known as the most underrated game of its type. Planescape was something of a rarity at the time in that it was very much story driven.

Combat is not a prominent part of the game, with creators Black Isle Studios ignoring all the common role-playing game hacks in favour of immersive dialogue, gothic settings and a lead character with a unique persona.

Planescape's protagonist is known only as The Nameless One, an immortal being that wakes up with complete amnesia every time he dies. The story follows his journey to the skyless city of Sigil, from where he travels many new planes in search of memories from his previous lives.

The trouble is, every time The Nameless One dies, someone else dies to fuel his recovery, and he finds himself haunted by the ghosts of countless angry unwilling sacrifices.

Why Tim Burton?

Even though Johnny Depp would likely be cast as The Nameless One and turn the character into some distant cousin of Jack Sparrow, it would be worth it to have a filmmaker with Burton's unique perspective at the helm of this one. Essential to this adaptation would be matching the feel of the game - macabre and magical at the same time, a like a circus performance inside a crypt.

The opening of the game in which The Nameless One wakes up on a cold mortuary slab and gets advice on where to go from a nearby skull is the kind of stuff Burton dreams of, and there is plenty more where that came from. While the film might call for a little more swordplay than Burton is perhaps used to of late, it is about the former-Batman director got back among the action.