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Scrap WoD, DUST 514. Make EVE TV series.
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Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#1 - 2011-10-14 04:45:24 UTC
Know something that will bring you to over one million subscribers? EVE TV series. Same production values of Battlestar Galactica.

Story? One or two years before, and leading to events in Empyrean Age. You make people care about your universe and deliver the Empyrean Age content in the final season, you get a blockbuster TV series. Empyrean Age is THAT good.


You know i'm right, Hilmar. Hit the switch.

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Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#2 - 2011-10-14 04:49:42 UTC
Oh right cause they can just recycle all of the DUST and WoD works and just all their money back.....

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Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#3 - 2011-10-14 04:53:09 UTC
Xercodo wrote:
Oh right cause they can just recycle all of the DUST and WoD works and just all their money back.....


Not really. But if they scrap these now, they can start working on a TV series instead of having to wait 2 years until DUST and WoD are over and released.

Besides, if they ever release these then we might one day have WoD people asking for a TV series which would indeed take away resources from the EVE tv series, and we would all get right back to where we are today.

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Thorn Galen
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#4 - 2011-10-14 04:53:58 UTC
Renan Ruivo wrote:
Know something that will bring you to over one million subscribers? EVE TV series. Same production values of Battlestar Galactica.

Story? One or two years before, and leading to events in Empyrean Age. You make people care about your universe and deliver the Empyrean Age content in the final season, you get a blockbuster TV series. Empyrean Age is THAT good.


You know i'm right, Hilmar. Hit the switch.


Now you're talking. It has the potential of being very awesome. Personally though, I would rather see it as a 10 or 12 episode mini-series, rather than a series which goes on and on. if it were to be (x) amount of seasons, they should do like they did for BSG, a limited number of seasons.

Hell yeah, Eve on HD TV as a series!

Ok, which actors would you want to see in it, considering it would be made for TV ?

I'd like to see the likes of Milla Jovovich, Nathan Fillion (from Firefly/Castle), Laurence Fishburne, for starters.

A movie is being made based on Halo, I don't see why Eve shouldn't get some screen-lurv.

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Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2011-10-14 04:54:03 UTC
dust can be fine if ported to 360, and no not PC.
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#6 - 2011-10-14 04:58:19 UTC
i don't think you fully understand just what you're talking about entails.
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#7 - 2011-10-14 05:02:50 UTC
Renan Ruivo wrote:
Know something that will bring you to over one million subscribers? EVE TV series. Same production values of Battlestar Galactica.

Story? One or two years before, and leading to events in Empyrean Age. You make people care about your universe and deliver the Empyrean Age content in the final season, you get a blockbuster TV series. Empyrean Age is THAT good.


You know i'm right, Hilmar. Hit the switch.


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Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#8 - 2011-10-14 05:03:35 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
i don't think you fully understand just what you're talking about entails.


Making a pilot, showing to a studio who will sponsor it, and working on 10 to 12 episodes for a tentative mini-series with 24 episodes? Then picking up and going forward with it if it proves successfull? Look around you, sci-fi series are beginning to pick up steam again.

You show it like it is to the right people, and they are going to be begging to CCP to let them make a TV series.

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Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#9 - 2011-10-14 05:08:49 UTC
Renan Ruivo wrote:
sci-fi series are beginning to pick up steam again.


Oh yeah. Totally, like Terra Nova.

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Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#10 - 2011-10-14 05:13:00 UTC
Alpheias wrote:
Renan Ruivo wrote:
sci-fi series are beginning to pick up steam again.


Oh yeah. Totally, like Terra Nova.


Hey i'm not saying they're good.. just that theres a renewed interest in them by studios.

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Nehmen Geld
#11 - 2011-10-14 05:13:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Nehmen Geld
Renan Ruivo wrote:
Know something that will bring you to over one million subscribers? EVE TV series. Same production values of Battlestar Galactica.

Story? One or two years before, and leading to events in Empyrean Age. You make people care about your universe and deliver the Empyrean Age content in the final season, you get a blockbuster TV series. Empyrean Age is THAT good.


You know i'm right, Hilmar. Hit the switch.


Assuming that this worked (and hey, why not, who would ever have thought that BSG could be remade so successfully) there is one thing to fix first; Incarna would have to be completed first. Nobody would ever play a BSG MMORPG if they could never leave their Viper...
Azahni Vah'nos
Vah'nos Family
#12 - 2011-10-14 05:33:29 UTC
As much as I would like to see a TV series happen, it can be a pretty big risk. There have been many shows that have failed to connect with a larger audience even though for me personally, I quite enjoyed them.

One example for me was Firefly, which I thought actually got better as it went along, but studio execs believed otherwise.

EVE has all the elements to be like Game of Thrones where political intrigue mixed with action/war is central to the storyline. People that I thought would never like the Game of Thrones TV series actually love it and can't wait for the next season.

Wasn't there a group at one stage making a fan made EVE movie?

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Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#13 - 2011-10-14 05:41:18 UTC
Thorn Galen wrote:
Ok, which actors would you want to see in it, considering it would be made for TV ?

I'd like to see the likes of Milla Jovovich, Nathan Fillion (from Firefly/Castle), Laurence Fishburne, for starters.

A movie is being made based on Halo, I don't see why Eve shouldn't get some screen-lurv.


Thought on a few.. none that would ask multi million budgets so sorry, no Will Smiths.

Louis Gosset Jr. as Malaetu Shakor

Jacqueline Samuda as Jamyl Sarum

Hugo Weaving as Tibus Heth (ok maybe too high profile.. but he is perfect for the role!)

Carmen Argenziano as Mentas Blaque

Cliff Simon as The Brooker (would be awesome to watch Hugo Weaving and Cliff Simon as characters who work together but despise each other)

James Morrison as Souro Foiritan

Penny Johnson as Karin Midular

Brian Dennehy as Dochuta Karsoth

Marc Alaimo(Gul Dukat from DS9) as Otro Gariushi

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Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#14 - 2011-10-14 05:44:56 UTC
ideally the TV series should be a slideshow, just like pretty much everything that happens in game

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The Apostle
Doomheim
#15 - 2011-10-14 05:48:45 UTC
Alpheias wrote:
Renan Ruivo wrote:
sci-fi series are beginning to pick up steam again.


Oh yeah. Totally, like Terra Nova.

And haven't you got THAT right.... Just launched in Oz, watched all the promos, went ohhh... ahhh.... Tagged on TV diary etc.....

Watched it for 10 minutes and nearly choked on my popcorn.

Put Clear Skies 3 back into the DVD, cranked up the sound and ate all my popcorn.....

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Turbo Nuclear Pirate Punch
#16 - 2011-10-14 05:49:00 UTC
Nehmen Geld wrote:

Assuming that this worked (and hey, why not, who would ever have thought that BSG could be remade so successfully) there is one thing to fix first; Incarna would have to be completed first. Nobody would ever play a BSG MMORPG if they could never leave their Viper...


This is actually a good point I hadn't thought about. Nothing but space-based combat does not a good sci-fi show make, so there'd have to be SOME amount of walking around (especially if the events leading up to the Empyrean Age were those featured in the book), players coming in to check it out would want to be able to take part in that at some level.

I'd watch it. I love this Universe and all the story and lore and characters it entails. Just so long as it was done well by a studio/writers who cared just as much for it. Hell, put the Mercury team on it.

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Doomheim
#17 - 2011-10-14 05:49:20 UTC
Andski wrote:
ideally the TV series should be a slideshow, just like pretty much everything that happens in game

New video card?

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Thorn Galen
Bene Gesserit ChapterHouse
The Curatores Veritatis Auxiliary
#18 - 2011-10-14 05:52:37 UTC
Azahni Vah'nos wrote:
As much as I would like to see a TV series happen, it can be a pretty big risk. There have been many shows that have failed to connect with a larger audience even though for me personally, I quite enjoyed them.

One example for me was Firefly, which I thought actually got better as it went along, but studio execs believed otherwise.

EVE has all the elements to be like Game of Thrones where political intrigue mixed with action/war is central to the storyline. People that I thought would never like the Game of Thrones TV series actually love it and can't wait for the next season.

Wasn't there a group at one stage making a fan made EVE movie?


Yeah, it was a frikken brilliant show! I would love to understand the reasons for it being canned, such a damned pity. The movie was very decent. There was talk at one stage that Fillion might be interested in buying the rights to Firefly, if only that were true.

Making series is a huge risk and there are many failures - one just has to look at SyFy channel to see the rubbish they serve-up there. Problem is budget, always a question of money.

I believe that with a decently written script and outline of what the Eve TV series *could* be would probably bring on board a major studio or two as sponsors. Now we just need the talent of JJ Abrams to write and direct the pilot.

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I will buy you a new pair of shades, ok ?
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Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#19 - 2011-10-14 05:53:53 UTC
The Apostle wrote:
Andski wrote:
ideally the TV series should be a slideshow, just like pretty much everything that happens in game

New video card?


clearly you've never been on grid with 600+ dudes

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Ciar Meara
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#20 - 2011-10-14 07:54:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Ciar Meara
Confirming that epic Amarr TV series with EVE IP would rip the face of Battlestar Galactica and wear it on its funeral (especially considering the awefull, awefull ending of BSG).

I'd like to cast Clarice van Houten as Our Lady Sarum, when she is done in game of thrones.

edit: I love Marc Alaimo(Gul Dukat from DS9), he was an awesome dukat, but would be more suited for an Amarr role !

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