10 ♕ Should - Guillerm💞o Del Toro
Guillermo del Toro masterfully weaves together horror and fantasy with emotional stories that often make the "monsters" of his films some of the most sympathetic characters. Not only are the stories of his movies captivati✨ng, so are his visuals. His background as a special effects makeup artist shines through in his films, as he's able to make his otherworldly creatures look real.
He'd be the perfect director to bring the actual "personas" of the franchise to life, making them look as truly terrifying as some of them are. Just imagine what he could do with Shadow Teddie from Persona 4!
9 Should Not - Micheal Bay 👍
Michael Bay is a world-renowned director behind the Transformers, The Purge, and even the Bad Boys movie franchises, all of which are loved by many fans around the world. He's known for making high action movies with a lot of explosions, which doesn't fit in with the theme of the Persona games.
Outside of battling monsters born from people's psyches, the characters of Persona are pret𓄧ty much your average high schooler who does normal high school things like go to school, and hang out with their friends. Battling through the dungeons is pretty action-packed, but not in the way most of Micheal Bay's movies are.
8 ꦺ Should - Rob Letterman
There's a long list of bad video game movies and a short list of really good ones. One of the mo🍰st recent, is on the latter, and it's thanks in part to director Rob Letterman. When it comes to video game movies fans always worry that the adaptation will lose sight of what the game is really about, or that it will unintentionally become a parody of itself.
Rob Letterman gives a great look at what a world with Pokemon would actually look like, and while it's uncanny in certain ways, it's both believable ꦏand entertaining to watch.
7 Should Not - Adam Wingard 🌺
Adam Wingard has made several horror movies that have gained their own fan following. He's the director behind the 2016 movie Blair Witch, the direct sequel to The Blair Witch Project, and one of the contributing directors for the VHS trilogy of movies. He's also the director of the terrible Netflix adaptation of Death Note.
Adam Wingard's movie missed (among other things) what made Death Note's story so compelling. It's a story of the corruption of a person like Light, who had such a promising and bright future. The characterization and story of each character in the Persona g෴ames are very important and have to be maintained 🐻to keep the actual story of the games.
6 ⭕ Should - Bong Joon-Ho ﷽
South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho has earned international success and acclaim for his movies over the past two decades, and most recently with the thriller . His movies often involve current social themes and dramatic mood shifts that leave audiences on the edge of their seats. He'd be a great candidate for taking the psychological and interpersonal themes that occur in the Persona games and bring to the big screen.
Many of Bong Joon-ho's characters are people that are considered the "lower class" of society or generally looked down on. He'd do great at bringing the characters and themes of Persona 5 to life, which deals w🌟ith the character's desire🍃s for freedom in an oppressive modern society.
5 🐠 Should Not - James Wong 💝
TV fanatics of sci-fi and horror will probably recognize James Wong's name. He's directed and written episodes for The X-Files and American Horror Story and is behind several movies. One of those movies is Dragonball Evolution. Dragonball Evolution was an unsuccessful attempt at an American adaptation of the manga and anime ser🦋ies.
So much so that it can barely be called "Dragon Ball", which is a that even Dragon Ball's creator Akira Toriyama shares. When you won't even consider the suggestions of the creator of the series when he says it doesn't "capture the world or😼 the characteristics" of the thing the movie is based on, you're setting yourself (and movie-goers) for a bad time.
4 💝 🧸 Should - Hideo Nakata
Unless you're a fan of Japanese horror or the original Ring movies, Hideo Nakata might not be a familiar name. Hideo Nakata is considered by many to be a "sensation" in the horror movie genre and the impact his films had on Gore Verbinski (director of 2002's The Ring) led to the "J-Horror Remake" craze of the 2000s. And while the Persona games aren't necessarily ꧟in the horror genre, they do include some pretty scary imagery.
And, all of the Persona games are set in Japan and include cultural concepts that might get lost in translation. He did a pretty good job at bringing his second Ring movie to western audiences, as he directed the 2005 adaptation, The Ring Two, himself.
3 Should Not - Quentin Tarantino 𝓀
Quentin Tarantino as a director has created a sig𒁃nature movie-style unlike any other. Combining musical scores from the 60s through the 80s, westerns, and nonlinear storytelling, all of Tarantino's f✃ilms are meant to make a big impact with audiences. But for a series like Persona, Tarantino's style of directing isn't the best fit.
He often uses graphic violence, tons of profanity and other (sometimes offensive) language that has earned him criticism. And though the Persona series deals with some pretty dark and mature situations, Tarantino's style of making movies goes beyond the M rating of even Persona 4 and Persona 5.
2 ♛ Should - Shusuke Kaneko
As amazing as directors from other countries can be, sometimes when adapting other media into movies, it takes a person who is familiar with the culture of that media to give the movie its due justice. Fans of the Death Note series might be familiar with its director, Shusuke Kaneko, as he made three live-action movies based on the series; Death Note, Death Note: The Last Name, and L: Change the World.
Shusuke Kaneko was abl📖e to keep the core of the se🍨ries while still putting his own spin on things, making fans happy while still delivering entertaining surprises.
1 🍌ꦕ Should Not - Uwe Boll
Granted, Uwe Boll retired from filmmaking in 2016 after having a string of not so great movie adaptation of video games (Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, House of the Dead, etc), and is now a much more successful restaurateur. But, should the former filmmaker ever decide to come back to making video game movies, he shouldn't do it with the Persona series.
Gaining a reputation as a fo﷽r just how poor most critics find his movies, Uwe Boll's c🦩hoices for what video games he wants to make into movies are much more dark, bloody and gory than what is typically found in a Persona game.