Yes, videogame adaptation usually always blow the big one, so I’m probably setting myself up for a disappointment, but Lost Planet seems like it could prove history wrong. Warner Brothers has optioned the rights to bring the game to the big screen. Having played the game, it could translate well to cinema; think Aliens meets the setting from The Thing. For those not familiar with the source material, read on for the prologue straight out of the booklet from my Xbox 360 version of the game, as well as why I think this might not suck!

It was T.C. - 80, eighty years before the Trial Century. Humankind had abandoned the comfort of a familiar world in order to attempt life on E.D.N. III. As emigration to the new world progressed, facilities were constructed to handle the growing population, and colonization appeared to be successful. With the expansion of the colony, humanity encountered a new alien lifeform. Known as the Akrid, they were immediately identified as a hostile presence. They humans had no weapons with which to repel Akrid aggression, and were forced to retreat from their new home.

While fleeing from the enigmatic menace, the humans discovered the precious thermal energy lying within the bodies of the Akrid. It was a powerful new energy source; suddenly humankind was determined to fight. The humans developed a weapon capable of fighting back against the Akrid scourge - the Vital Suit, or VS. With VS technology, humanity has returned to E.D.N. III, and the great colonization experiment has resumed. Those who were left behind in the initial retreat banded together as the Snow Pirates. As a team, they roamed the hostile planet in VS vehicles, fighting for their very survival.

In the course of its wanderings, a small band of Snow Pirates discovered a young man buried among the snow drifts. They rescued him and brought him back from the brink of death. The young man remembered only two things about his past. First, his name was Wayne. Second, that his father was killed by an Akrid known as “Green Eye”.

In the hope that Green Eye is the key to regaining his memory, Wayne, together with the team of Snow Pirated that rescued him and a VS, goes in search of the Akrid. On a hostile world of extreme cold, Wayne will soon discover that his past and the future of Lost Planet are inexorably linked…

So while the film may not follow this to a T, I’m sure it will take most of its cooler elements. The barren snowdrifts, the war machines called VS, and the scourge of aliens called the Akrid. It could all add up to a killer sci-fi/action flick, and with Variety reporting that David Hayer, scribe of X-Men and X2 (my all-time favorite superhero flick), has been tapped to write the screenplay, the future for this looks a lot brighter than most other videogame flicks. Only time will tell however.