"Because games are first and foremost a form of fun, are open to more crazy ideas," he said. Both James Gunn and Suda51 shared separate statements on their personal Twitters claiming no involvement with the recently announced Lollipop Chainsaw remake.
Gunn also has an idea for why this might be. "Movie-goers just aren't they want just one of five genres."
"Gamers are just way more open to different kinds of storytelling," Gunn said. He also points out the rather ironic notion that though a successful game could pave the way for a Lollipop Chainsaw movie, it'd be much more difficult to get a stand-alone screenplay approved for production without the game coming first. "If Lollipop Chainsaw has a big enough audience, which we hope it does, then I think a movie would be a great thing," Gunn noted. Gunn, whose screenwriting credits include films Super and Slither, understands that "these mixed genre movies have a hard time making money." "It would be hard to make a Lollipop Chainsaw movie without people knowing the game," Gunn told Edge in an interview at GDC. approached him about just such a cross-over project during the game's early development stages.
The quirky and violent concept doesn't exactly seem like mainstream movie material, but Gunn asserts that publisher Warner Bros. According to Lollipop Chainsaw's lead writer James Gunn, Grasshopper Manufacture's upcoming game about a cheerleader ridding her high school of zombies with a chainsaw has some silver-screen potential.
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