In the first installment of Everything Old is New Again, I discussed decades-old movie properties that are ripe for remaking into new game titles, a la Ghostbusters. Since Spielberg made the move from movie director to game designer with Boom Blox, George Lucas has been planning Super Howard the Duck Melee, and Ridley Scott is already in production on a FPS titled G.I. Jane. But what other older movie IPs might be snatched up by game producers and be the next big budget movie-to-game masterpiece?

Midnight Madness
Through the magic of XBox Live, compete against teams of players from across the country in a sport all but forgotten since 1986: The Great All-Nighter! Follow clues through the open world city of Los Angeles, progressing from location to location while doing your best to stymie your opponents. Achievements include…

Beer Bomb: Burn the Pabst Blue Ribbon brewery to the ground without killing anyone
Frame-up: Frame a another team for a crime, causing at least a 3-star wanted rating
Fagabeefe?: Complete the Mission “Musical Mayhem”

Throatwalker’s Bailiwick
Throatwalker’s Bailiwick is the story of Bora, a 15-year-old boy whose world is shattered when an epidemic of flatulence overtakes his homeland. At the same time, there is turmoil in Monstropolis. Sulley, Monstropolis’s top scarer, is missing. Buzz Lightyear and Lightning McQueen set out to find him. On their travels, they meet Bora, and they are told of ominous creatures known as the Fartless – beings without flatulence derived from an unknown dimension.

Pixar has teamed with Bioware to produce this new game. While some criticize the choice of title, others point out that “Throatwalker’s Bailiwick” makes no less sense than “Kingdom Hearts”.

Zardoz Online
In the distant future, men of the elite warrior class all wear bikinis. In this next-generation MMO, you can choose to play as one of these well-armed Exterminators, or as one of the powerful nomadic Brutals. Who will discover the truth about the mythical god Zardoz? Who will fly to the paradise of the apathetic Eternals inside a giant stone head? And with what powers will he return? Answers to these questions and more await within the fantastic world of ZARDOZ.

Xanadu
Do you like Barry Manilow, Gordon Lightfoot, and The Carpenters? Then you’ll love this new Nintendo DS Rhythm Game from iNiS. As the muse Terpischore, you must travel the world, inspiring people to accomplish their goals – help a frustrated fourth grader with her math homework, help a laid off steel worker from Bethlehem build his own roller rink, and help a disbarred lawyer show the bar association that they were idiots to disbar him – all through the music of the seventies! Includes music from Paul Anka, The BeeGees, The Commodores, Abba, and Captain and Tennille.