Fans of the video game Clock Tower and its sequels can rejoice, as a movie adaptation is on the fast track.
Variety is reporting that Senator Entertainment will be producing the film, which revolves around all of the games in the series, but centers on the sequel, Clock Tower 2: The Struggle Within. The basic plot includes a girl who is put in an insane asylum where she is haunted and tormented.
Directing the movie will be Martin Weisz (The Hills Have Eyes 2), based on a script by Eric Poppen (Borderland).
Stay tuned for more details as they arise!
Wow… they’re gonna hafta do something about those giant scissors. =P
i played the shit out of this game on ps
WOW! This movie better be worth it! I’m definetly gonna buy tickets!
What really pisses me off is when people complain how there is no scissorman in Clock Tower 3 when there is! If they were true gamers they would know he and his sister Jemima are in the 3rd one; there the killers before Lord Burroughs.
Clock Tower 3 scissorman is not Dan, nor is he Bobby, and thusly is not the Clock Tower scissorman at all. If you were a real gamer, you’d know that. Clock Tower 3 was awful. Having said that, I’m upset that they’re basing the movie on the Clock Tower 2 plot, as it has little to do with the original Clock Tower story. The writers are all imported from the “let’s kick some ass with beers” genre, making this movie a likely candidate for the “Oh no, scary man with a sharp thing.” award. Don’t get me wrong, I think a clock tower movie is an amazing idea; I’ve been waiting on it since the sixth grade. But all of the potential for plot in the original story: A father willing to sacrifice his son, a mother willing to sacrifice others FOR her sons, revenge, pain, fear, the tormented pleasure of the chase, a mystery hundreds of years in the making. All of these great story points will be, sadly, lost in this project. Believe me when I say that I want this movie to be great, but with all of the elements they’re building it around, I just don’t see it being anything more than filthy, white-trash slop. Sorry guys, I don’t think this will be the one.
Um…Am I the only one who thought Clock Tower 2: The Struggle Within (also known in Japan as Clock Tower 3: Ghost Head) sucked major balls…It was a fun game but c’mon the story totally blew with all the plot holes like the buried twin babies and their relation to the “deseased”/cursed statue, oh and the main killer (Maxwell) only being in the game for no more than 10 minutes in the last scenario…I mean at least they had Scissorman in the super nintendo Clock tower and the PS Clock tower throughout the whole game…then you get the third installment in the series “The struggle within” which you got a crazed little girl with a knife who was “possessed” and then was said to actually be infected with a neuro-toxic virus that makes you a crazed killer but when you defeated her in the end of the first scenario, you see a damn ghost come out of the girl, wtf, I thought it was a fuckin virus?? Pot holes everywhere…The second scenario, you’ve got zombies all infected with the virus and then Maxwell in the third scenario with the oversized cleaver who takes 10 seconds to lift the damn thing over his head (try something lighter genius) while Alyssa just stands there with her hand over her heart thinking God knows what…Oh and Alyssa being a school girl, having the alternate personality of a grown ass convict-prone man inside of her who in fact later on is found out to be the soul of her twin brother trapped inside her after both being buried alive as infants (fuckin complicated!)…Oh and how the hell does the soul of a teenage boy, have the voice of Wolverine who sounds like he went through cartons of cigarettes in his past life…Sooooo if they want to go ahead and focus on the one game where the plot isn’t consistent or appealing then Kudos for the guys who are trying to make it a good movie because that’s a long ass road they got to take and I’m not expecting the best from it…The first clock towers (super nes and ps) were the best although the acting in the ps game was very dry and the graphics were a tad bit outdated, it still scared the living shyt out of me in middle school and I loved the whole story plot with the original scissormen bobby and dan because they didn’t even speak and yet we were still intrigued by them…Oh and Clock tower 3 was amazing but not as a point and click horror survival game…more like a twisted fantasy game that tries to be silent hill and resident evil at the same time and needed a different title because I’m pretty sure it let down a whole bunch of true clock tower fans who were expecting similar game play like the first two…struggle within (again which is actually the third installment in the series) I don’t even consider as part of the clock tower franchise and neither clock tower 3…those last two games are on their own.