Lights, Camera, Game Over!: How Video Game Movies Get Made

In—depth production histories of movies based on video games, including insights from over 40 industry insiders.

Since 1993, Hollywood has been rendering popular video games on the silver screen, mainly to critical derision and box office failure. While a few have succeeded, many have been hailed as the "worst movie ever" and left gamers asking: how did that get made?

Super Mario fans expecting plumbers jumping on Goombas got an inter—dimensional battle between humans and evolved dinosa...