Gaming the Movies
In the fall of 2008, I began writing a monthly column for Knights of the Dinner Table called Gaming the Movies. The premise was to take a movie and distill the key elements out of it that would let you play it as an RPG. What are the themes, the aspects of genres, the touchstones that would make a game of that movie feel like the movie.
I’d started this concept in a couple solo articles, beginning with the “All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Firefly” in issue #100 where I examined the short-lived cult hit Firefly, and “So You Want to Play Heroes” in issue #136 where I distilled the essence of the Heroes TV show.
In support of the column, I’m going to be providing additional information to expand some of the topics.
Planet of the Apes – Issue #169
Adventures in Babysitting – Issue #168
Inception – Issue #167
Three Days of the Condor – Issue #166
Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns – Issue #165
Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Issue #164
The Wild Geese – Issue #163
Thirteenth Warrior – Issue #162
Johnny Mnemonic – Issue #161
Burn Notice – Issue #160
Mission to Mars/The Red Planet – Issue #159
Underworld Trilogy – Issue #158
Rosemary & Thyme – Issue #157
Ghostbusters – Issue #156
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow – Issue #155
The Shield – Issue #154 - More Information
Pirates of the Caribbean (Issue #153) More Information
X-Men (Issue #152) More Information
Apocalypse Now (Issue #151)
Alien (Issue #150) More Information
A Reservoir of Pulp Dog Fiction (Issue #149)
Band of Brothers (Issue #148)
Forbidden Planet (Issue #147)
Indiana Jones (Issue #146)
Death Race (Issue #145)
Mystery Men (Issue #144)
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (Issue #142)