Board Thread:Off-topic discussion/@comment-26516813-20160310031508/@comment-1845428-20160520063712

Making the movie explicitly for fans was probably the biggest mistake of the process (followed by the marketing) because there are a lot more non-fans out there, and fans are the only ones who seemed to enjoy it (again, I haven't seen it, but also I'm not a Ratchet fan).

I think that the Sly movie will have the edge based on two things; one, Sony knows that bad movies can still sell tickets with good marketing (see Pixels, Underworld and countless others) and should therefore put more money into it for Sly ("spend money to make money" or, "marketing is IMPORTANT"); and two, an animated action film is bound to do poorly when up against the live-action action (weird) films that we get nowadays (superhero films and such) whereas an animated heist film (possibly in the vein of Ocean's 11) is a bit rarer and may draw in more viewers based on concept alone.

All we have to hope for is a member of Sucker Punch's writing team being brought in (as they did with T.J. Fixman) because Sucker Punch, somewhat surprisingly even with inFAMOUS, has some of the best writers in the industry, sometimes surpassing even Amy Hennig of Naughty Dog fame (I know there are more good game writers out there, but Hennig is arguably one of the most well known).