6 iPhone games that would actually make great movies

Forget Temple Run and Angry Birds. These iPhone games are truly worthy of big-screen adaptations.

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In the never-ending quest to find something — anything — that might drive audiences back to movie theaters, Warner Bros. has hit on a particularly desperate idea: A film version of Temple Run, a wildly popular iOS game featuring an explorer who runs over bridges and collects coins.

It's hard to think of a game less suitable for big-screen adaptation. Temple Run's main character doesn't even have a name, and the game's style is nakedly stolen from movies that already exist, like Indiana Jones and Romancing the Stone. Cynical as it sounds, Temple Run is actually the second upcoming movie based on an iPhone game — an animated Angry Birds movie is already slated for a plum summer release date in July 2016.

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Scott Meslow

Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.