Errmm...the game is fine (and fun in multiplayer with a friend) , but a movie will be absurd.... I mean shooting pigs in cop uniform? Or shooting other aliens? (Reminds me of the lukewarm DOOM movie.) But definitely there will be strippers and nudity, but making it so will have to compromise the viewership extending to teens.

Anything after Nuke Nukem 3D is jinxed.

John Cena as Duke Nukem, is like Arnold Swarzenegger started doing standup 🤣

Is this an April fools joke that got out early?

squiggly wrote:

Is this an April fools joke that got out early?

Very possibly, but it could be genuine. I've just googled it and the 'news' is on a lot of websites. To quote from the first result:

"It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I’m all out of gum. There’s a Duke Nukem movie coming, and wrestler John Cena is earmarked the play the titular hero.

He’s played a jarhead, a generic action hero, a cartoon bull, and even a wrestler, but now it looks like John Cena is set to play … another generic action hero.

Everyone’s least-favourite first-person shooter protagonist is getting his own film and it’s probably going to be very stupid. At least Cena will look the part, mind.

“We don’t have a script yet, so that is confirmed at this point but if he reads the script and he doesn’t like the script I’m sure there’s ways that he could pull out,” producer Andrew Form explains of Cena’s casting, via CinemaBlend. “But right now he’s our guy.”"

Source https://www.vg247.com/2018/03/28/john-cena-duke-nukem-movie/

Doesn't sound exactly professional, does it? It's difficult to believe that a film's producer would admit “We don’t have a script yet", or say "...if [the star] reads the script and he doesn’t like the script I’m sure there’s ways that he could pull out,”. You'd think a producer of all people would know that it's important to make an upcoming production sound professional and of a very high quality, instead of making it sound like a half-hearted let's-make-a-film-if-we-can project that even if it succeeds won't be worth your time watching.

And the website's "Everyone’s least-favourite first-person shooter protagonist" line isn't fair, either. Some people no doubt like Duke Nukem's personality and character, and if in fact no one does, then a film about him isn't going to attract many viewers, is it? And as irritating and unlikeable as Duke would be in reality (though you'd have to admire his courage (or stupidity!), at least he does have a personality, unlike the protogonist in 95% of first peron games, where you play as mute nobody. So by definiton you can't dislike those protagonist, as there's nothing to dislike!

Even if this news turns out to be true, the film will probably be rubbish. But if the news is true, and the film turns out to be even fairly popular, then it might just lead to a new Duke Nukem game. So let's hope, fellow Duke game fans!

They Live 2...

They've should have asked Cliff from the LGR channel, he can immitate DN perfectly.

And Uwe Boll should direct, everyone knows that he is the only one capable of making good videogame adaptations.

There's "emulating" duke and then there's trying to match that macho fantasy build he has. John Cena was obviously picked for the latter.

This will end well.

Kerr Avon wrote:

And the website's "Everyone’s least-favourite first-person shooter protagonist" line isn't fair, either. Some people no doubt like Duke Nukem's personality and character [...]

Scroll down a little and you get a hint -- it's because Duke is 'sexist'. For certain people it's vital to convince themselves that everyone shares their opinions; the idea is, if they say so often enough, perhaps their echo-chamber might make it true. Kind of like certain pre-historic beliefs that if you ritually wet yourself often enough, the rain will come. 😁

That's not to say a Duke movie isn't a singularly terrible idea, because it is, but the reasons are much simpler...

I don't care for the Duke character all that much as he's toxic masculinity personified (i'm one of those who play with Duke Talk OFF). I only played Duke3D for the heretic mechanics

I don't think I've ever played an FPS with a storyline so captivating it could potentially spawn a watchable movie, and part of that has to do with the fact that there's probably an already existing film offering more or less the same thing. I've got 2 in the back of my head right now, and I'm only talking Duke.

Now, if they were shooting for a Shadow Warrior movie with 97' Lo Wang (not this generic character from the unofficial sequels), that I'd eager to watch just for the kicks 😎

Spec Ops The Line would make a hell of a movie IMO but its technically a TPS..

I suppose System Shock could qualify..

Malik wrote:

Errmm...the game is fine (and fun in multiplayer with a friend) , but a movie will be absurd.... I mean shooting pigs in cop uniform?

Perhaps the movie could be made into an excellent action-adventure-comedy ala The Mummy series. After all, it's all in the execution.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Malik wrote:

Errmm...the game is fine (and fun in multiplayer with a friend) , but a movie will be absurd.... I mean shooting pigs in cop uniform?

Perhaps the movie could be made into an excellent action-adventure-comedy ala The Mummy series. After all, it's all in the execution.

I don't know about that..

Maybe they could cast some discredited politicians as the pig aliens? 🤣

There's only one John who can be Duke, and it's spelled Jon.

Ugh, John Cena as Duke Nukem? What next...Cena as BJ Blazkowicz??

If Cena can act half as good as a young Bruce Willis and the director is Christopher Nolan, then we're all set.

hmmmm Duke as a movie ? Oh well, it seems to me that Hollywood has ran out of ideas. Rampage was another game made into a movie with The Rock. And Duke having a toxic masculine personality, seriously what a load of overly political correct and over sensitive SJW bollocks ! People could just as well go after Shadow Warrior with its tongue in cheek humour too. Sometimes I feel that people do not get that, sexism racism and stuff like that, goes both ways. I used to run with the crowd like that, and bloody hell, men were oppressed. And this comes from a guy who is against racism, sexism etc.

What is next, going after the late Georg Carlin ?

Both games , Duke 3D and SW were made in the 90s and they were fun . Give me a hairy vulva and a cigarette, and I am fine for the rest of the evening.