News > Christopher Gans to Direct Onimusha Adaptation

Via: Dark Horizons, IGN

Written by: Noah Sanders 

I don't know what draws foreign directors working in Hollywood to video game adaptations, but honestly, it's like a moth to the fire.  First, John Woo announced his umpteenth attempt at making a video game film this week, and now Silent Hill director Christopher Gans is stepping up to direct another video game film. 

This time he's stepping behind the wheel of the Japanese samurai epic, Onimusha.  The story follows a 16th samurai who looks to cut the crap out of some resurrected baddie while saving an attractively in-distress princess in the process. 

There's a reason why video games are allowed to have mundane plots - because you get to play them.  The idea of samurai saving a princess is as cliche as possible, but when you get to grab the controller and actually play the samurai slicing and dicing the undead, it doesn't matter.  You're enjoying the cliche in a completely different way.

Gans Silent Hill was sort of expunging of surreal, visual diarrhea but there was real promise in just how absolutely f'ed up it was.  He's also shown he has some pretty impressive skill in directing martial arts with Brotherhood of the Wolves, so this might actually be the first decent video game adaptation of all time.  Or not.