EVE General Discussion

I have been pondering something, maybe the community and CCP can possibly look into it, and not just look at home made pvp clips and consider an actual movie.

After 13 years of existence one would think EvE Online would have a movie out. There are enough story lines around to beable to make one. I mean look at this for example below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qEXq0cH3x0&feature=youtu.be

How does Warcraft have one coming out, and i must say rather interesting as well. I plan on watching it. But can no one imagine for themselves how fantastic it would be to see a Eve Online movie with a story line? Immortalize EvE Online in a movie and capsuleers.

I have seen that. That is more just a very basic community attempted movie. I am talking about something like what you see in the trailer i linked. Now that is a full blown movie that will be in theaters. Millions will see it, subscriptions and advertising will sky rocket, but in the end it will immortalize EvE Online on a larger scale with millions more seeing it, and seeing what so many players over the years have achieved in EvE Online.

Here is a HD version released from Universal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzb956kdgc

EvE Online has some truly great story lines, and A LOT of great people that play EvE. Why can CCP not negotiate the development of a movie with one of the great movie studios?

Bagsie Lexa Doig to play me.

When ever I think along these lines I remember this and realize how lucky we have been.

There's been talks of a TV-series, maybe sometime...

Mittani's attempt at getting the EVE playerbase to fund his business with a full-blown propaganda piece failed. Not more.

The other book that comes to my mind, Andrew Groen's "A History of the Great Wars of EVE Online" got funded beyond his wildest expectations (and yes, I backed that. Whereas I didn't give the slightest **** about that propaganda crap that Mittani wanted to release).

Given the size of the planets population, there are still Billions of people who never ever heard of Warcraft.
To make a movie successfull today you have to get the people into the cinemas who never played Warcraft.
Even when everybody who has played Warcraft woud see that movie, the numbers woudn't be enough to make it a Blockbuster.
It's all about marketing today and if they would have a good script with a thrilling story a EVE Movie could be a success too.

Games-to-movies have been really hit-or-miss for another thing. Much as I'd love to go see MechWarrior/Battletech or Eve made into movies, they would in all honesty have to be done incredibly well to do any real justice to either franchise. Same for several other examples, but those for me personally are the biggest ones in my mind.

I'm not even a huge Battletech fan and Eve is not even my favorite game but I sure as hell would kill to see the Clans hitting the IS borders or some massive Sleeper incursion break out in New Eden known-space on the big screen...in IMAX 3d, no less. Trouble is, with the kind of history the movie industry has with such adaptations, script would likely be horribly done or just have no real feeling or substance in them. I hope I'm one day proven absolutely wrong, but doubtful.

He's way too polarized for it to work imo. No matter what he said it would be, people would not believe him. The association with his media enterprise pretty much made it so it would be mostly goon funded or bust. Especially since it had to be funded before anyone could see if the claim of "It won't be biased" were true or not.

Now the question is, could the community even be able to back up a project hard enough even if the launcher was as neutral as we can find?

By "he" I assume you mean Mittani. People could actually email the author directly, he was writing the book and it would only be CCPs oversight he needed. Jeff made this clear in his AMA.

Potentially, but only due to how overly serious players take in-game politics. Objectively there's no reason to expect anything different from Mittani than any other player out to make cash off the game. And the thing is, biased or not, we all know how the story would end. I think a lot of people didn't like that the story would end with goons winning, but then that's how it goes since they actually did.

I honestly doubt there's enough players to back any serious project, and only handful of "neutral" players that would be able to bring a serious writer to the table.

As strange as it sounds coming from an Imperium member, I've always shown in the past that I'm not exactly Mittanis biggest fan, and my membership of the Imperium is purely down to members of an old corp from rental days way back moved into SMA and I floated across to join them. Sure enough, it would be preferable if someone like Chribba were to push and idea like this, but regardless, I backed it before and will again if it comes back up purely because I'd like to read some quality EVE based fiction and think Jeff could provide that. Even if it were a little biased and even when the inevitable "goons win" conclusion is reached, I think it would be an entertaining read.

That said, I'd be on board for anyone attempting to write or get a writer to do the same, and if a movie is really what people want, that's far more likely to occur if there's a well written book to base it on, so get writing people. Straight up history book though, not so much.