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disagree about the female lead being a detriment. If they kept it true to the games, she wouldn't speak, and we wouldn't see her. Now, of course CG can be integrated into live action movies, and i think they could do the suits justice. The only problem i see is, what movie will succeed with virtually no voice from the lead role? And if they did give the actress a speaking role, wouldn't that go against the game? I still think Burton as director, with Uma Thurman as Samus, would be incredible, but any movie with no voice from the lead role would be an extreme risk, and the studio would have to have realistic expectations for a movie of this type. If they released it expecting a summer blockbuster, i'm sure that would indicate our fears realized-they would've ruined our favorite adventure.
Samus says *ALOT* she has spoken since the first metroid, its always been her perspective.
In metroid 3, the opening is her speaking, she explains what she did the previous 2 games.
In metroid fusion: she says ALOT of stuff, which gives more into her past and the way her psyche works, shes a very interesting character. In prime what she says is very little, but considering *you* are supposed to be samus in Prime (an effect that was done with an amazing effort, i honestly felt like i was "samus" just the way the information in the game is given to you...)
I believe, for a movie, it would have to be heavily chozo related, because the chozo's are quite talkative fellows (If i remember correctly, from the 2 comics) and Ridley also speaks, this I also know. I'm not sure how it would turn out, but it would most likely use the same live action/CG that something like "Hulk" is using, where its almost believable*cough*, but the main character is heavily CG.
I can see it working decently well, as long as her suit is nearly full powered from the get-go. I'd love to see how they get around "morph ball" technology this time. It's still never said on how it works =p.
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Massive editage/update.
Now that i think about it, the way that Samus gets her suit could be turned into a *quite* good movie. Her colony is invaded by space pirates(lead by Ridley), who kill EVERYONE. Then a chozo finds her nearly lifeless body, gives her chozo blood + the suit, she comes back and kicks some serious pirate ASS. It's much more involved than that, but i can see how it would be a good movie. And show her with a decent amount of "out of the suit" time.