In a busy year for video game adaptations, here's every video game-based movie currently set for release in 2022. Once upon a time, there was a clear divide in both prestige and success between the world of movies and the world of video games. As games have gotten more advanced, though, and in many ways more like movies, the interactive art form has become an even more financially lucrative industry. Top-level video games now have budgets that rival superhero blockbusters, and their releases have become just as big of events as the latest Marvel movie release in theaters.
Yet, despite how similar video games and movies now are, Hollywood hasn't proven very adept at translating them to the big screen. Ever since the Alone in the Dark.
2021 saw heavy hitters Resident Evil step back into the movie realm, to mixed results. 2022's video game movie offerings include Spider-Man's Tom Holland going on a different kind of adventure, Mario's attempt at cinematic redemption, the return of gaming's favorite hedgehog, and more. This is every video game movie currently planned for 2022.
Uncharted (February 18)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (April 8)
Considering that the Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic's human friends Tom (James Marsden) and Maddie (Tika Sumpter) go on vacation, leaving Sonic (Ben Schwartz) without supervision in a world still pretty new to him. When arch villain Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) and his new associate Knuckles the Echidna (Idris Elba) come around looking to acquire the powerful Master Emerald, it's up to Sonic and fox pal Tails (Colleen O'Shaughnessey) to stop them.
Untitled Super Mario Bros. Movie (December 21)
After the critical and commercial bomb that was 1993's Super Mario Bros. movie, Nintendo wisely Super Mario Bros. movie cast include Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, and perhaps oddest of all, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong. Rogen's DK is already being considered for a spinoff movie.
Borderlands (TBA)
Debuting in 2009, the Eli Roth, the Borderlands movie's story takes inspiration from the trilogy as a whole, and does feature some of the original playable characters. However, game developer Gearbox Software has confirmed it's set in an alternate universe to the games. The story centers on the outlaw Lilith (Cate Blanchett), who's hired to find the missing daughter of Atlas (Edgar Ramirez), Pandora's biggest weapons manufacturer. With her on this quest are Roland (Kevin Hart), a former mercenary, Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a young demolitions expert, Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina's burly bodyguard, Dr. Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), an unstable scientist, and Claptrap (Jack Black), a snarky robot.
The Division (TBA)
Hopefully heading to Netflix in 2022 is video game movies covered here, The Division has seen the most setbacks during pre-production, and seems the most likely to possibly be bumped to 2023 as it's yet to start filming.
