The game found immediate success - as of July 2015, it had been downloaded over 3 billion times - which led to many spinoffs, such as versions of Angry Birds available on PCs and gaming consoles, an animated series, and merchandise featuring the angry-faced feathered friends. The Angry Birds game was launched in 2009 by Finnish company Rovio Entertainment, and it has stayed at the top of the mobile gaming charts ever since. The fact that Angry Birds Movie appears headed for greater success than most game-inspired movies suggests, counterintuitively, that the relative lack of story and substance in the original mobile phone game may have been a liberating gift for the filmmakers at its helm.īomb (Danny McBride), Red (Jason Sudeikis) and Chuck (Josh Gad) in The Angry Birds Movie (2016) According to Den of Geek, there are 48 video game films currently in production, including Warcraft and Assassin’s Creed, which will premiere later this year.
This might signify a turning point for the game adaptation genre, which has clearly been embraced by Hollywood studios of late. Although it has been poorly received by critics, The Angry Birds Movie earned a surprising $39 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. Yet Angry Birds Movie is not quite the same as a Super Mario Bros or a Tomb Raider: it also bears the distinction of being the first movie based on a smartphone app. The genre formed in 1993 with Super Mario Bros.(1993) and has bred notoriously bad movies: 33 video game adaptations have seen international release with an average Rotten Tomatoes score of 18.7%. Does its success reveal any insights about the game-inspired movie industry and our current cinema landscape?įollowing in the path of films like Street Fighter(1994) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider(2001), The Angry Birds Movie (2016) is the latest film adaptation of a video game franchise - and it will likely be the most successful one yet. The game’s mindlessness allowed the filmmakers freedom to create what is essentially an original story. But Angry Birds is a non-narrative video game with almost no characters or story to translate into a movie, so directors Fergal Reilly and Clay Aktis could only take inspiration from the game’s “essence,” while creating new characters and plots from the flightless birds that function as tools in the game. The film is loosely based on the popular mobile phone game Angry Birds, providing a backstory for the birds-versus-pigs premise of the game. Quick Answer: The first film based on a smartphone app, the Angry Birds Movie fits into an expanding genre of video game adaptations.
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