General: Five Possible MMO Movies

Acidon

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Just thought of another movie that would be cool even though it is not a MMO would be Might and Magic based off imho the last great M&M games World of Xeen (IV - Clouds of Xeen and V - Darkside of Xeen).

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This. I was pretty young when playing the Xeen series from Might & Magic, but it sure left an impression on me and was part of my fantasy gaming upbringing. I still have the maps that came in the boxes!

If not a movie, I would love to see these games re-done with todays game technology. Updated graphics and gameplay and you would have (imho) a massively popular game series.

At age 34, I have played many games in my life. Another series that was amazing to play from the start was Ultima. Anyone remember Ultima Underworld (I & II). The first underworld game had a story so immersive and awesome that I still remember it today. Getting locked in some very old caves and having to crawl your way into the deepest parts of the cave system in order to find a way out (and save the day!) was amazing.

The Wolfenstein series was awesome fun, too. Remember the first one? lol.. I don't think anyone would have the patience to play games like that these days.

I didn't mean to hijack things here. As to the original topic, I would absolutely LOVE to see an EverQuest movie. For those that have spent the time to read up on the Lore of EQ, there is plenty for a great movie. Hell, there's plenty for a series if you ask me.

Acidon

Rosmariini

I think WoW movie would get lots of viewers even if it would suck just because of the huge fanbase.

Stargunner23

 The only way any of these will make a good movie is if the people involved with it forget that their source material is a game. I'm only familiar with Warcraft and D&D so I won't comment on the others, but both of these have some amazing stories and characters that could be brought to the screen. If the writer/director/editor/whoever approaches the material this way, as a story about some characters, with some event(s) happening around them. Also, they need to keep in mind that movies are a much more limited medium that video games.

One has 2-2.5 hours tops to have the plot and characters introduced, conflicts resolved, and the story brought to a reasonable satisfying ending (a little foreshadowing is good if a sequel is planed, but don't leave everyone hanging). If I'm following the storyline in warcraft though, what do I have? 3 titles which take dozens hours to work through (Warcraft I-III), and WoW that can pretty much take all the time it wants to explore various plotlines, characters, and settings? You don't have this luxury in a move, so the scope has to be limited from the very beginning. Tell the story of Arthas' fall, or Drizzt's escape from the Underdark, or something else limited in scope and no more.

Sharangir

 I would love to see a Warhammer movie. The humor that greenskins bring with them in every Warhammer game, the lore including the Chaos Gods, etc... make a great movie concept, better than Warcraft.

 

Other than that, the Tabula Rasa clip has huge movie potential as well.

Horusra

I do not know if it has been said, but as far as DnD movies...I would love to see a well financed Dragonlance movie based on the original novels and secondly a Forgotten Realms movie...but if they are going to be low budget and have to make cuts I would rather them not be done.

USFPutty

Originally posted by jufo


And perhaps it is just me, but I just picture an EVE movie, as an expanded Star Wars movie.. now with 4 factions instead of just Imperial and Rebels.. and with no jedis of course. But other than that I would actually believe that a movie about 4 interplanetary kingdoms at war, which would make all wars on earth look like insignifficant battles, would be a great concept. And if nothing else, then the large spacewar scenes.

I can just imagine it... and though I imagine it as quite cool, I can't stop imagining a Death Star hovering by, in the background at different times

Actually, I'd see an EVE movie looking and tasting a lot more like something like the Alien series, with a pinch of Firefly.  Actually, you could even throw some Chronicles of Riddick in there (crazy space religion WHAAAT).  And a dash of Battlestar Galactica.  In the beginning you want to start the movie with the arrival in New Eden and subsequent "holy crap, we're trapped in another galaxy".  Fun!

aleos

 i think Anarchy Online would be a bad ass movie.

Reklaw

1.City of Heroes = A No No for me as a movie, I like my superhero's to have something mystical, but then again regardless that I am a Superhero fan I for some reasons can not get into MMORPG's like CoH/V, ChampionsOnline. But please do make a movie about CoH/V cause I am sure lots of people will look forward to it, perhaps I will even go and see it, but would not be looking forward to it.

2. Lord of the Rings Online, really not sure how this would work out, okay put Peter Jackson on the helm and they might become awesome, but think he's pretty busy the next couple of years with projects like The Hobbit 2011, Adventure's of Tintin 2011, presumed Halo the movie 2012.

3. D&D, definitly want a movie from that, but this time let it be done so it justify's the serie and not like the former movies where one (the first) was kinda alright but very lowbudget not really enjoyeble, the other one slightly bigger budget but they made a wierd type of comedy flick of it, both didn't do justice towards the IP, let someone please do the IP justice.

4. Tabula Rasa, already heavy inspired by movies like StarshipTroopers and War of the Worlds and plenty of other al ready made Sci-fi movies, so it wouldn't be anything special apart from it's title perhaps.

5. Warhammer only if made like their intro movie, feel the same way about the World of Warcraft movie as I feel if it's done like their CGI intro movie's it will do the games justice.

6. EVE, awesome space sim with a touch of MMO, don't think a movie can do it justice, but will agree if done as a serie, think BSG/StarGate there can be lots of creativity in making EVE a tv serie.

Oh and .......I did enjoy the read

JohnWulf

EVE-Online is the ONLY 1 mentioned that I would have any real interest in watching, either as a Movie or a HBO/SyFy series...

 

In fact I think a Series would be great, possibly based upon Actual events occuring in the game as time goes on...

Events that Real People are playing a part in , not just the NPC side of things...

The major Alliance conflicts and Sov Wars ongoing and so on...

Difficult as that might be to do, it could make for Great TV...

Alverant

I think Eve would work better as an hour network drama. I don't play the game, but everyone says how deep it is and about the politics and economics add depth and so on. A movie would probably be made by Michael Bay and have 1 hour 55 minutes of ships blow up and 5 minutes of plot. That wouldn't do justice to the game. The only problem with the TV series is that most of it would take place on stations, planets, etc and no in the ships which would cause a disjoint with the game.

Now a CoX movie would work. You don't have to spend the whole movie showing how they got their powers. Who said the origin has to be the central plot? Spend the opening credits showing what their powers were and maybe a bit of background. That's all you need. Remember the newest Hulk movie? OK bad example. Remember Watchmen? They didn't go into the origins of every character (just one as a subplot).

You don't even have to write a whole new plot. Just pick one of the better story arcs and fluff that out to 2 hours. Dark Watcher's arc comes to mind.

JYCowboy

Originally posted by Alverant


I think Eve would work better as an hour network drama. I don't play the game, but everyone says how deep it is and about the politics and economics add depth and so on. A movie would probably be made by Michael Bay and have 1 hour 55 minutes of ships blow up and 5 minutes of plot. That wouldn't do justice to the game. The only problem with the TV series is that most of it would take place on stations, planets, etc and no in the ships which would cause a disjoint with the game.
Now a CoX movie would work. You don't have to spend the whole movie showing how they got their powers. Who said the origin has to be the central plot? Spend the opening credits showing what their powers were and maybe a bit of background. That's all you need. Remember the newest Hulk movie? OK bad example. Remember Watchmen? They didn't go into the origins of every character (just one as a subplot).
You don't even have to write a whole new plot. Just pick one of the better story arcs and fluff that out to 2 hours. Dark Watcher's arc comes to mind.

 

Kinda a bad example.  Dr Manhattan was the only hero with physical powers.  Ozymandias could be pointed out to have the next super powers with his speed and genius but thats about it.  Oz would not be a hero of the film either.  Manhattan's orgin was significant in that his appearance was to show the transition of the heroes into the new age with real powers and how they impact our world which is part of the story.

I would imagine a CoH movie would be handled much like "Hero High" with giving the audiance this setting to start.  Intro characters and learn thier story in thier own words as the plot goes.

Alverant

Originally posted by JYCowboy 
Kinda a bad example.  Dr Manhattan was the only hero with physical powers.
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I would imagine a CoH movie would be handled much like "Hero High" with giving the audiance this setting to start.  Intro characters and learn thier story in thier own words as the plot goes.

While Dr.M was the only one with superpowers, you don't need superpowers to be a super hero. Why did Night Owl start fighting crime? Is Ozzie a mutant or the peak of human ability? Batman, Mystery Men, and Punisher had superhero movies but didn't have powers (or if you want to be technical, minor powers). For the most part the better superhero movies are the ones with an origin in them. But that could be because sequels tend to be worse regardless. I'd like to see the best effort of a movie be made with the heroes already having their powers.

I agree about "Hero High", but I can also see a Watchmen style history during the opening credits. One of the trailers for City of Heroes did a good of this showing Statesman fighting crime during Prohibition, WWII, etc with his costume changing and seeing other heroes.

ChromeBallz

Funny to read this now... They announced this at Fanfest