Video games are fast becoming popular as the new creative pool film studios are drawing from.

It has been reported that Capcom's Mega Man has been optioned by 20th Century Fox for a live action movie. Nothing else is known about the project so far as it is still in its very early stages without writer or director but the report reveals that the producers are in place.

Hollywood is definitely tapping into video game craze, with the recent reveal of James Wan helming a Mortal Kombat reboot.

In 1993, the Super Mario Bros. film adaptation tanked at the box office and with critics but Nintendo is reinstating faith in Hollywood magic, as in a recent interview with Slash Film, one of Nintendo's execs spoke about how the marriage of video games and movies made sense:

"We've had, over the years, a number of people who have come to us and said 'Why don't we make a movie together-or we make a movie and you make a game and we'll release them at the same time?' Because games and movies seem like similar mediums, people's natural expectation is we want to take our games and turn them into movies... I've always felt video games, being an interactive medium, and movies, being a passive medium, mean the two are quite different....As we look more broadly at what is Nintendo's role as an entertainment company, we're starting to think more and more about how movies can fit in with that-and we'll potentially be looking at things like movies in the future."

So watch out Nintendo fans, there might be news of a major film adaptation around the corner.

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