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Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#41 - 2012-08-29 23:56:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Paul Oliver
Akai Kvaesir wrote:
No matter what the storyline is, the four main characters should be Nathan Fillion and David Tennant, with Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana rounding it out. I mean, how freakin' sweet would that be?!

EDIT:
My racial breakdown:
Amarr - Zoe Saldana
Caldari - Sigourney Weaver
Gallente - David Tennant
Minmatar - Nathan Fillion


Does the "I play the David Tennant race" dance (does kinda look Gallentean doesn't he).

Akai Kvaesir wrote:
A half hour Clear Skies type show on SyFy would be cool


Would you have it on before or after wrestling, or maybe just squeeze it in between a pretentious "Syfy original series" from Canada and a reality show.

No...

Oh yea and I nominate Christopher Walken for the role of Tibus Heth.
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#42 - 2012-08-29 23:59:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Akai Kvaesir wrote:
No matter what the storyline is, the four main characters should be Nathan Fillion and David Tennant, with Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana rounding it out. I mean, how freakin' sweet would that be?!

EDIT:
My racial breakdown:
Amarr - Zoe Saldana
Caldari - Sigourney Weaver
Gallente - David Tennant
Minmatar - Nathan Fillion

Granted, this is all highly theoretical anyways, but I'd be supremely happy just to see a tv/film adaptation...Hell, even just a proper Hollywood-produced Clear Skies movie, even if it was all CGI (which could be a cool homage to it's machinima roots).


Needs some Christopher Eccleston in there as well, he seems to do slightly deranged very well, just look at the insanity he brought to the role of the 9th Doctor and Destro (GI Joe), looks like he just landed a role in the next Thor film to.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Akai Kvaesir
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
#43 - 2012-08-30 00:03:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Akai Kvaesir
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Akai Kvaesir wrote:
No matter what the storyline is, the four main characters should be Nathan Fillion and David Tennant, with Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana rounding it out. I mean, how freakin' sweet would that be?!

EDIT:
My racial breakdown:
Amarr - Zoe Saldana
Caldari - Sigourney Weaver
Gallente - David Tennant
Minmatar - Nathan Fillion

Granted, this is all highly theoretical anyways, but I'd be supremely happy just to see a tv/film adaptation...Hell, even just a proper Hollywood-produced Clear Skies movie, even if it was all CGI (which could be a cool homage to it's machinima roots).


Needs some Christopher Eccleston in there as well, he seems to do slightly deranged very well, just look at the insanity he brought to the role of the 9th Doctor and Destro (GI Joe), looks like he just landed a role in the next Thor film to.


Lord Victor, from the books, perhaps?

EDIT:

Also, Stellan Skarsgard as Tibus Heth. OMFG yes please!

Frogblast the Vent Core! When the W'rkncacnter came, Pthia was killed, and Yrro in anger, flung the W'rkncacnter into the sun. The sun burned them, but they swam on its surface.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#44 - 2012-08-30 00:08:14 UTC
I'd have gone with a descendant of Alexander Noir, the nutjob who supposedly crashed his Nyx into the Caldari station

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Garreth Vlox
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#45 - 2012-08-30 00:08:31 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
CCP Phantom wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.


I think lots of people disagree with that statement, especially after they have watched the Clear Skies series. Smile


That's not a movie proper, its a machinima, significant difference IMO.


Ok how about the last Tekken movie?

The LULZ Boat.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#46 - 2012-08-30 00:11:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.


The resident evil series would like to take a bite out of you, based on a video game, panned by the critics, made a metric shedload of cash at the cinema and on DVD.

then there was Doom which kind of proves Akirei's point, even Uwe Boll couldn't have made that worse.

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Abel Merkabah
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#47 - 2012-08-30 00:12:58 UTC
This would be brilliant.

Personally, I'd like an original story in the EvE universe, using the artistic style of EvE and EvE's "spirit"; not a show based on prewritten lore. Of course lore could be referenced and would be used to add context to this original story.

I think what EvE would be best at offering to a series would be style and personality.

Of course, any EvE show that would be created, I'd give it a watch.

James315 for CSM 8!
Denidil
Cascades Mountain Operatives
#48 - 2012-08-30 00:33:09 UTC
Gillia Winddancer wrote:


And for the record, I rather disliked Babylon 5 so nothing like that please. No offence but I found most of the actors there to be rather crap.


pod this person back into the literary stoneage where they live.

Tedium and difficulty are not the same thing, if you don't realize this then STFU about game design.
Aricaan
Rum and Quafe
#49 - 2012-08-30 00:41:29 UTC
I would pay 30 bucks a month, just so I could see Steve Buscemi say pubbies every once in a while.
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#50 - 2012-08-30 00:53:21 UTC
I don't like that idea at all.

If you want to make a good movie you first and foremost need to know what story you want to tell - once you have the story you can start thinking about the setting in which this story is best conveyed.

It is the medium and the audience that decide which setting you choose - in the 19th century you might write a novel that is set in Belgian Congo, in the 70s you might direct a movie that is set in Vietnam and in 2012 you might create a videogame set in post-apocalyptic Dubai.

An EVE movie or TV series would start out with a setting looking for a story and chances are that setting itself would be way more complex than any story you could shoehorn into it.

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Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#51 - 2012-08-30 01:35:02 UTC
No thanks. Movie yes; TV, no.
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Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#52 - 2012-08-30 01:45:38 UTC
Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Sam Elliot, Angelina Jolie, Leelee Sobieski, Helen Mirren, Ice Cube, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson, Rhona Mitra, ... more
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Vince Arron
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#53 - 2012-08-30 01:51:46 UTC
Because all the other game to TV show-movies worked out so well right?

Game story telling doesnt work with in the Movie or TV format you are taking a interactive medium and turning it into a spectator sport.

it hasnt worked, it doesnt work and it wont work.
Natsett Amuinn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#54 - 2012-08-30 01:56:43 UTC
Celeste Taylor wrote:
Syfy is launching Dominion as both a game and television series by Farscape's Rockne S Obannon. I wish them all the best and am sure it can be done.

edit both the series and MMO take place at the same time frame and events in the series will influence the MMO IIRC.

Defiance?

The Trion Worlds free to play cross platform MMOFPS that ties into the syfy show of the same name. The special effects are being done by the same guy that did the BSG remakes.

No idea what dominion is.

I have to agree with the guy that mentioned AMC. I would also love to see a CGI movie made for EVE as well. Make a direct to video.
Antisocial Malkavian
Antisocial Malkavians
#55 - 2012-08-30 02:01:56 UTC
They did it was called Band of Brothers and it was in EVE (for a while anyways)

And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit.

Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#56 - 2012-08-30 02:02:11 UTC
New HBO miniseries.... Generation Goon?

I might watch it Big smile

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
Natsett Amuinn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#57 - 2012-08-30 02:08:29 UTC
Vince Arron wrote:
Because all the other game to TV show-movies worked out so well right?

Game story telling doesnt work with in the Movie or TV format you are taking a interactive medium and turning it into a spectator sport.

it hasnt worked, it doesnt work and it wont work.

Belive it or not, the first Resident Evil movie was actually pretty good. Maybe you didn't like it, but most people seemed to.

Aside from that the only other movie that actually comes to mind is House of the Dead, whatever it was called, and yeah it was awful. Had nothing to do with being a movie based on a game though, it was just a bad movie.

Bad movies aren't usually bad because of what they're based on, they're bad because they weren't done well. Most Stephen King novels have been turned into pretty bad movies, even when he wrote the screenplays himself. It's not because books don't make for good movies, it's because the movie wasn't made well.

Once upon a time comic books were notorious for being made into bad movies. Look at some of the biggest movies to come out lately. Iron man, Avengers, the first and second spider man, the last three batman movies. If the movie industry looked at what was done in the past and said, "well, movies based on comic books are bad" we would have never got some really great movies made.

Thankfully the world isn't full of people that make rediculous statements like the one quoted.
Antisocial Malkavian
Antisocial Malkavians
#58 - 2012-08-30 02:10:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Antisocial Malkavian
Yeah there are what 6 resident evil movies now?

and hell; video games to movies is a better premise than board games to movies AKA Battleship
*barf*

And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit.

Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#59 - 2012-08-30 02:13:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Mars Theran
Cast of Characters:

Kiefer Sutherland - Caldari
Donald Sutherland - Caldari
Charlie Sheen - John Rourke
Bruce Willis - Amarr
Mickey Rourke - Caldari
Sam Elliot - Gallente
Helen Mirren - Gallente
Don Cheadle - Amarr
Steve Buscemi - Caldari
Angelina Jolie - Minmatar
Leelee Sobieski - Amarr
Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson - Minmatar
Halle Berry - Minmatar
Uma Thurman - Amarr
Morgan Freeman - Minmatar
Samuel L. Jackson - Minmatar
Rhona Mitra - Gallente
Ben Afleck - Gallente
Milla Jovovich - Gallente (little edit there)
..also: Gary Oldman - Amarr
Lucy Liu - Caldari

Just a thought, and by no means fully decided on. Of course, they could always hire myself and a bunch of other players. I'd get my passport and take some time off work for that, provided the pay was decent and expenses were covered. Big smile
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Arya Greywolf
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#60 - 2012-08-30 02:15:51 UTC
Yokai Mitsuhide wrote:
If it ended up anything like the newer BSG I would be over joyed. TV needs more/better sci fi.


Sorry, are you male or female?