Things in movies that were inspired by video games

[Turbo Kid]

James Gunn channeling Lollipop Chainsaw for Suicide Squad

John Wick 4 and The Hong Kong Massacre

“The staircase I knew I could own because it was a metaphor for Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill and being knocked down. We had that dialed in; we had the Arc de Triomphe dialed in,” director Chad Stahelski says. “The apartment fight wasn’t clicking. It was just a fight in an apartment. And I’m like, How do we shift perspective?” The former stuntman, who has helmed every John Wick installment, found the “special sauce” of inspiration in the 2019 video game Hong Kong Massacre, which unfolds from a bird’s-eye view. “There was a visual there that shouldn’t have made sense but did,” he says. “It was part video game, part anime, part cinematic experience.”

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Surprisingly tricky question because I can only think of inverse examples (like how contra was inspired by commando and Rambo, or pitfall being an Indiana jones homage, or doom being inspired by aliens)

Only instance of games influencing movies off the top of my head is kingdom hearts being confirmed to be canon to the Disney movies they appear in, meaning Jack Sparrow did canonically meet sora.

 

[Deleted member 560402]

pretty much all of Pacific Rim

 

[bjork]

The movie that immediately springs to mind is Scott Pilgrim, but it's been a decade since I saw it so I'm unsure of specifics.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

It directly makes me remember this movie:

When cinema makes baby with FPS genre lol.