A survey conducted by the online gaming platform Yahtzee Craze analyzed movies that have been adaptations of video games for the big screen over the past 20 years to find out which is the most searched for worldwide.
Uncharted, released in February 2022 starring Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland, takes the top spot, with over four million average monthly searches worldwide. The movie is based on the action-adventure video game of the same name which was originally released in 2007 and has gained huge popularity around the world.
Coming in second is Sonic the Hedgehog, the first of which was released in 2020, followed by a sequel in April 2022. The film records an average of 1.83 million monthly searches worldwide.
Need for Speed ranks third, with an average of 901,000 monthly searches. The movie starring Aaron Paul and Dominic Cooper was released in 2014, making it one of the older movies on the list. The game the film is based on made its debut in 1994 and the last new game was in 2019.
Further down the list, Monster Hunter (2020) comes in fourth with 719,000 average monthly searches. The game of the same name is an action role-playing game that has been around since 2004.
The top five closes with the second oldest film on the list, Hitman, released in 2007 and based on the series of the same name that has been developed and released since 2000. The film has 532,000 monthly searches.
A spokesperson for Yahtzee Craze commented: “It’s interesting to see the variety of movies included in the list, especially because of their release date. In fact, regardless of the fact that the top ten is headed by Uncharted, the latest release of a movie adapted into a video game, other movies are much older, such as 2014’s Need for Speed, 2007’s Hitman, Silent Hill from 2006 and Warcraft from 2016.”
Nintendo is currently working with Illumination on an animated Super Mario movie, which is expected to be released in April 2023.
