'Mega Man X' By Olan Rogers - A $700 Mega Man Fan Film

These days it's much easier to find a great video game than a great video game movie. Great video games are released almost every month but great video game movies are few and far between. For every Mortal Kombat or Tomb Raider there's Street Fighter or Double Dragon (Or Doom. Or Max Payne. Or Hitman. You get the idea).

Then there are properties out there we'll likely never see on the big screen. Super Mario Bros., for example, all but killed the chance of Nintendo ever letting anyone make movies out of their characters. Microsoft has been trying to push Halo for nearly a decade. These days we're left with Resident Evil movies that are tangentially related to the games at best. What's a fan to do if they want to see their favorite video game character outside of their XBox?

The answer is YouTube and the world of fan films. We've already seen a Portal fan film explode across the Internet, a solid series of Mortal Kombat films and now another popular character has got his due. Olan Rogers has mad a $700 fan film called Mega Man X that pushes its meager budget to its limits with a fun recreation of a game series many of us grew up with and loved. Check it out below.

Thanks to Kotaku for the heads up. Here's the film.

It goes without saying Mega Man X is really low budget but it's also told with the passion of a true fan. The nods to the games, such as the charge shot and way Mega Man flies backward, are all present, but in service of a story. That story, unfortunately, gets cut off right when it gets good – but that tends to happen when you don't have tens of thousands of dollars to make a short film.

For a better idea of what's going on here, both in front of the camera and behind it here's a description from the movie's YouTube page:

The beginning part of the video is a message Dr.Light records over 100 years ago, his lab is now abandoned. As the camera moves into the capsule you see a still running testing parameter where Mega Man X fights a hologram or drone in the form of Protoman. The reason I chose to use Protoman, was for the mystery surrounding him it's never officially said what happens to him. So after this test ends with a charged blast from X he faces a choice to kill but he chooses to show mercy, After which a hologram appears telling him that his testing is done. What isn't seen is who brought him out of the capsule which of course is Dr.Cain, maybe for another time. :)

This isn't a perfect video I understand this, this is all independently made I didn't have a lot of money but I decided to do it anyway I had 700 dollars, two green sheets, an amazing prop maker, two actors who worked for free because I didn't have enough money to pay them, they still gave 110% and one awesome friend who busted his butt on the animation side. Thank you for taking the time to watch and for your support. I HOPE!!!! I did this game justice!

Did you enjoy Mega Man X? Will Capcom ever let someone make the film?