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What if CCP and HBO collaborated...

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Proclus Diadochu
Mar Sarrim
Red Coat Conspiracy
#1 - 2012-08-29 21:30:01 UTC
...to make a TV Show? C/D

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Yokai Mitsuhide
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-08-29 21:31:35 UTC
If it ended up anything like the newer BSG I would be over joyed. TV needs more/better sci fi.
Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-08-29 21:36:21 UTC
I dunno but you can be sure atleast the Gallentean women would be showing their breasts each episode, the Amarrians would be played by people with really british/shakespearian accents, and the Civire would never stop cussing.
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Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-08-29 21:37:42 UTC
Yokai Mitsuhide wrote:
If it ended up anything like the newer BSG I would be over joyed. TV needs more/better sci fi.

He said HBO not the Syfy channel.
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#5 - 2012-08-29 21:40:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
The Jove would live in the North, beyond the wall.

More BSG would be good though, Syfy y u kill all the good stuff?

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Yokai Mitsuhide
Doomheim
#6 - 2012-08-29 21:52:05 UTC
Paul Oliver wrote:
Yokai Mitsuhide wrote:
If it ended up anything like the newer BSG I would be over joyed. TV needs more/better sci fi.

He said HBO not the Syfy channel.


Yeah... I can read. All I said was if it was LIKE that show, I'd be happy.
Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#7 - 2012-08-29 21:53:07 UTC
Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.
Steve Ronuken
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#8 - 2012-08-29 21:55:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Steve Ronuken
The crew of a supercarrier, trying to get home, after being sucked through a wormhole into W-space.

A DED team, hunting a notorious Capsuleer, who's been abusing tech like the Dust mercs have, formenting revolt and regime change.

Rebel Slaves, fighting the might of the Amarr Empire. A Moderate tries to get the Theology council to soften their hardline view.

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Steve Ronuken
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#9 - 2012-08-29 21:56:44 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.



Yes and no.

If the setting is interesting and detailed enough, it can easily support a story.

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CCP Phantom
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C C P Alliance
#10 - 2012-08-29 21:58:25 UTC
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

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Akirei Scytale
Okami Syndicate
#11 - 2012-08-29 22:04:59 UTC
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.
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
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#12 - 2012-08-29 22:05:54 UTC
Paul Oliver wrote:
Yokai Mitsuhide wrote:
If it ended up anything like the newer BSG I would be over joyed. TV needs more/better sci fi.

He said HBO not the Syfy channel.

Either way I'd be on-board. I think after BSG ended it's run SciFy channel got out of the SciFi game (they're the wresteling and reality show channel now). I'd obviously watch an Eve-based show though...

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Yokai Mitsuhide
Doomheim
#13 - 2012-08-29 22:06:23 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.


Bad directors are to blame for horrible video game movies, video games have awesome content that could be great in films if they ever did them right. Silent Hill is a good example, great movie. Although the upcoming sequel looks awful...lol.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#14 - 2012-08-29 22:08:19 UTC
If CCP and HBO collaborated, we'd have one kick-arse movie that would only be accessible to HBO cable subscribers. So drop that idea. There's a reason that Game of Thrones is the most pirated TV series in the world: you don't light a torch only to hide it under a bushel.

Instead, what if CCP was to collaborate with JMS? I think the EVE universe is most like the Babylon 5 universe: it's a place where bad stuff happens, and people actually have to trust people they don't like in order to get things done.

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Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#15 - 2012-08-29 22:08:40 UTC
Since it would be on HBO does that mean there would be boobies? If not, its not worth it.

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Vaknar Onzo
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#16 - 2012-08-29 22:09:34 UTC
Oh my god, this would be the best thing ever. Generation Kill is my favourite TV show.. this would be incredible.
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#17 - 2012-08-29 22:12:03 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
The stories of video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.


Fixed.

Yes, turning a story of a game into film as you would do to a book or a comic is a terrible idea. But creating an entirely new story using the background universe of a game can work, if the universe is detailed enough. EVE as a game doesn't really have it's own main storyline, so there is some potential there.

Question is, would it attract enough viewers to be worth the money? Even if every single EVE subscriber watched it that wouldn't be anywhere near enough. Therefore the movie would have to appeal to the general SF crowd, and the use of the EVE universe would be just an afterthought.
MeBiatch
GRR GOONS
#18 - 2012-08-29 22:13:54 UTC
HBO AMC or Space chan... they would all do a good job of it...

though tbh i like the writers are AMC the best right now..

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Celeste Taylor
Ruby Dynasty
#19 - 2012-08-29 22:14:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Celeste Taylor
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.
Yokai Mitsuhide
Doomheim
#20 - 2012-08-29 22:15:11 UTC
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
Akirei Scytale wrote:
The stories of video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.


Fixed.

Yes, turning a story of a game into film as you would do to a book or a comic is a terrible idea. But creating an entirely new story


No man, that is exactly what makes all these video game movies suck to begin with, they change all the things that made them great video games.
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