From Console to Cinema: Video Game Movies – answers and explanations
Here are the answers to all 15 questions in the From Console to Cinema: Video Game Movies quiz, each with a short explanation. How well do you know films and series based on video games? Haven't played yet? Take the quiz first and compare your score.
Play the quiz · 15 questions1. Which late British actor played Mario in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie?
Answer: Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins, the British actor best known for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, played Mario in the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. film opposite John Leguizamo as Luigi and Dennis Hopper as King Koopa. Hoskins, who died in 2014, often called the troubled production the worst job of his career.
2. Which actress starred as Alice in the Resident Evil film series?
Answer: Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich played Alice, a character created for the films rather than the games, across all six Resident Evil movies from 2002 to 2016. She married the series' director, Paul W. S. Anderson, in 2009. Michelle Rodriguez appeared in the first film, but as the commando Rain.
3. The animated series Arcane is based on which hugely popular video game?
Answer: League of Legends
Arcane, which premiered on Netflix in November 2021, is set in the world of Riot Games' League of Legends and follows sisters Vi and Jinx in the cities of Piltover and Zaun. Made by French studio Fortiche, it won several Emmy Awards for its animation.
4. The 2024 hit series Fallout premiered on which streaming service?
Answer: Prime Video
The Fallout series, based on Bethesda's post-apocalyptic games, dropped all eight episodes on Prime Video on April 10, 2024, two days earlier than first announced. Jonathan Nolan directed the first three episodes, and Walton Goggins stars as the Ghoul.
5. Which film became the first video game adaptation to top $1 billion worldwide?
Answer: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The Super Mario Bros. Movie crossed $1 billion worldwide on April 30, 2023, just 26 days after release, the first video game adaptation ever to do so, and finished with about $1.36 billion. It was made by Universal and Illumination with Nintendo.
6. Which Hollywood star voiced the title character in 2019's Detective Pikachu?
Answer: Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds provided both the voice and motion capture for the wisecracking Pikachu in Pokemon Detective Pikachu, released in May 2019 and directed by Rob Letterman; the film grossed over $430 million worldwide.
7. Who played the lead role in the 2010 flop Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time?
Answer: Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal played Prince Dastan in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Mike Newell's 2010 Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer film that took about $336 million against a budget of up to $200 million, far short of the hoped-for Pirates-style franchise.
8. Which actor plays smuggler Joel in HBO's series The Last of Us?
Answer: Pedro Pascal
Pedro Pascal plays the hardened smuggler Joel opposite Bella Ramsey's Ellie in HBO's The Last of Us, which premiered in January 2023 and was developed by Craig Mazin and game creator Neil Druckmann.
9. Who starred as treasure hunter Nathan Drake in the 2022 film Uncharted?
Answer: Tom Holland
Tom Holland starred as a young Nathan Drake in Uncharted (2022), directed by Ruben Fleischer, with Mark Wahlberg as mentor Victor 'Sully' Sullivan; the film grossed over $400 million worldwide.
10. Why was the first Sonic the Hedgehog film delayed after its 2019 trailer?
Answer: Fan backlash forced a redesign of Sonic
After the April 30, 2019 trailer drew widespread mockery of Sonic's human-like teeth and eyes, director Jeff Fowler announced a redesign and Paramount pushed the release from November 2019 to February 14, 2020.
11. Which actress took over the role of Lara Croft in the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot?
Answer: Alicia Vikander
Swedish Oscar winner Alicia Vikander played Lara Croft in the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot, directed by Roar Uthaug and released in March 2018. The film drew on the gritty 2013 game reboot, taking over the role from Angelina Jolie.
12. Which actor plays the villainous Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog films?
Answer: Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey plays Dr. Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik in Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog films, starting with the 2020 original directed by Jeff Fowler. In the third film he also played Robotnik's grandfather, Gerald.
13. Who directed the 1995 Mortal Kombat film and later the Resident Evil movies?
Answer: Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson directed 1995's Mortal Kombat, the first big video game movie hit with about $122 million worldwide, and later wrote all six Resident Evil films, directing four of them starting in 2002.
14. Which Hollywood star played Sully opposite Tom Holland in 2022's Uncharted?
Answer: Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg played Victor 'Sully' Sullivan opposite Tom Holland's Nathan Drake in Uncharted (2022), directed by Ruben Fleischer. Wahlberg had earlier been attached to play Drake himself during the film's long development.
15. Which actress voiced Princess Peach in 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie?
Answer: Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy voiced Princess Peach in Illumination's The Super Mario Bros. Movie, released April 5, 2023, alongside Chris Pratt as Mario and Jack Black as Bowser, and she reprises the role in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie.