If Peyton, Johnson and their collaborators manage that task well then who knows: perhaps Rampage will prove to be one of the still-rare good video game-turned film adaptations.
Petyon and Johnson’s San Andreas aspired to be an “emotional and scary” thrill ride itself, but most critics and filmgoers seem to agree that it succeeds more as cheesy genre entertainment than anything else.
Rampage opens in U.S. theaters on April 20th, 2018.
Peyton confirmed to WGTC that the Rampage movie will include the three classic beasts from the original games, before simply teasing that “you’ll have to stay tuned to find out where we’re going with this.” This is a respect in which Rampage should have a relatively easy time succeeding too; after all, whereas recent video game movie such as Warcraft and Assassin’s Creed have faced the challenge of streamlining and adapting the dense mythologies of their source games, there’s not much lore that Rampage will be expected to maintain from the original games, outside of the three primary monsters and general concept.