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What mmo could be nice to convert into a movie ?
Jowen
Member Posts: 326
Sorry for the title rip-off, but could it work the other way around too?
What MMO games and in particular what game elements do you think could be interesting to see in a movie in the cinema? And I mean a movie for the broad audience, not only for geeky fans.
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None.
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Age of Conan. Maybe that Austrian body builder can play the main character. What's his name.
Agreed.
none at all...its a stupid idea as we will soon see with the WoW movie
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
Um....dunno.
Eve maybe?
D.
I'm in the process of writing a screenplay loosely based on one of them. But can't say which one right now.
The sad thing is, the WoW movie will probably be a smash hit revenue wise only because of the WoW moniker. Which just makes me puke when I think of the WoW movie, followed by all the other drivel hollywood will churn out afterwards, trying to cash in on the "mmo movie" craze.
That's easy-- City of Heroes.
There's enough lore and enough of an origin story for the Freedom Phalanx to provide a backstory for it, and the superpowers and abilities that the different heroes and villains would have would translate well to the big screen. Plus, there'd be lots of explosions and destruction, which is always good.
Of course, it wouldn't be anywhere near high art, but it could be a decent popcorn flick for the summer.
I cant wait to see the WoW movie. I think WoW is the best mmo for movie.
Maby EVE would be good to
Lineage, here's the proof...
Warcraft and Everquest are already in the making, I believe EQ has the best chances of a good quality movie.
But WoW will have more viewers due to the fact that it is a more popular game.
Other games, it's difficult to say, because at the moment all MMO are the same, so if you do more MMO inspired movies, you will just making boring clones of WoW and EQ.
*Begins getting nightmares of Dungeons and Dragons*
no...
NO...
NO! no! get away!!...
NOOO... ahghhgghghg.... *scream gets cut off*
Enough said.
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I would like to see anarchy online movie. They already have an animated series, and its really good. Gr8 story and sci-fi setting.. definitely would go and watch it.
I agree CoH/CoV would probably make the best movie of any MMORPG.
LOTRO.... oh wait...
any sandbox game. these games have very loose backstories, have real conflict in them, territory control, alliances, and traitors.
basically everything you need to make an epic WWII move without actually being WWII.
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
Is that you Uwe Boll ?
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"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb." -- Batman
I don't believe any MMO out today would be able to hold an audiences attention, with the exception of Eve or possibly Earth and Beyond. Both have a deep history and can easily be developed into a 2 hour movie.
Conan has been done and would only appeal to the fans of the books and old movies. While I wouldn't mind seeing another conan movie, I don't think it would draw the audience numbers that studios are now aiming for.
WoW might flop in theaters just because most audiences would expect the story to be something as epic as lotor. It could be pulled off but I don't think it would be nearly as successful as people think.
City of heroes wouldn't work because you need to focus on certain characters and telling thier story. I think that would be kind of hard with hundreds or thousands of other heroes flying around saving people while your main character is debating what to do about a villian. If you take away the other heroes and just provide the story with a couple then your not really staying true to the IP and it will flop because of that also.
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The CoH comics stuck to the main signature heroes in the game (Statesman, Positron, Manticore, etc.), so it's possible for a movie to do the same. It would make sense, after all, since those are the ones that most people familiar with the game would know offhand.
CoH wouldn't be any different in scope or execution than an X-Men or Justice League film. Focus on the main heroes and villains and their conflict (i.e., the Freedom Phalanx vs. Arachnos) and it could work.
maybe LotRO or SWG
*sorry*
I think Eve would make an excellent movie or Anarchy Online
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
There can never be a truly good MMO movie because of the vast number of players in the game. The best we can hope for is a halfway decent plot, centered around a handful of characters in an MMO setting.
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My current Guild Wars character:
Dauthix The Avenger (Paragon/Ranger)
SWG.
ok, that was just a really bad joke. No worries, I don't plan on a career in comedy.
I noticed that others beat me too it. I'm so lame lol
with the crap hollywood pawns off on us as of recent, probably any of the bad ones with a crap story line, especially any of the bad oneswith crap story lines that are popular, like WoW for instance... hey, wait a second....
Please of please, no more superhero movies! I was sick of them back when I was 10, now even more so...
I would like to see EVE movie, actualy I would like to see a SF movie, MMO based or not, lately finding even a decent SF is as easy as explaining the super string theory to a monkey, but hey, all one can do is hope, hehe, maybe next Blizzard movie will be about Starcraft.