Director, producer and writer Guillermo del Toro has been in the news for his "Pacific Rim" movie that will release July 12, 2013.
Del Toro has produced "Rise of the Guardians" and has earlier directed "Hellboy" and his most famous "Pan's Labyrinth".
In an interview to IGN, the director said that he has seen "video games evolve from tele-pong to now." He says a great video game is that which makes it possible for developers to tell their story beyond the art forms using the video game engine.
When asked about the challenges of making a good video game movie, del Toro said, "I think there are very few games that offer the possibility of being adapted to a movie. I think video games are, in themselves, a great narrative experience. It's kind of stubborn to think that they should be adapted to movies. I think that certainly Halo would make a great movie, or a great series of movies, but it's rare."
"I think BioShock is really interesting, but it would need to be an R-rated movie to capture the atmosphere and action of the game and all of its different genres."
He also said that he had watched a couple of Webisodes of the "Halo: Forward Unto Dawn" web series.
"One of the fortunate experiences I had around 2006 was that I actually adapted Halo with the writer D.B. Weiss before any other incarnation of the game and we were having a lot of fun with it," he added.
Currently, del Toro is playing Dishonored and was "enjoying the hell out of it. It's really a great engine and really an interesting universe that combines a sort of future retro design with very good gameplay. I'm enjoying it quite a bit."
Del Toro revealed that he was a loyal Call of Duty fan. "Well, I'm very loyal to Call of Duty and since I don't play online, I only play the campaign," he said.
