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Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#81 - 2012-08-30 07:50:19 UTC
Paul Oliver wrote:
And come to think of it, Dennis Hopper would probably make a good President Souro Foiritan.

You know Dennis Hopper is dead right?
Ciar Meara
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#82 - 2012-08-30 07:54:18 UTC
Paul Oliver wrote:
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.


Man, ad some spaceships and that sounds like a show I'd watch and buy the blue ray on preorder!

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Singoth
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#83 - 2012-08-30 08:03:51 UTC
Movies based on video games fail because the stuff you do in the game, is boring to see in a movie... or way over the top so it becomes a laughable B-movie.

However, EVE is different because it has no main storyline.
I would love to see a proper movie within the EVE Universe, maybe a lot of small movies based on the EVE Chronicles would be GREAT as an EVE-series IMO.

A take out of the daily life of a capsuleer is boring... Spreadsheets: The Movie is not going to be a good idea.

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pussnheels
Viziam
#84 - 2012-08-30 08:26:11 UTC
HBO umm. Sex, blood alot of harsh language and spaceship
We already have 2 out of 4

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Barrak
The Painted Ones
#85 - 2012-08-30 08:29:26 UTC
EvE is to racist to make it to TV and if it did it would be a dumbed down version.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#86 - 2012-08-30 09:52:09 UTC
Barrak wrote:
EvE is to racist to make it to TV and if it did it would be a dumbed down version.



EVE's not really racist. Not in a way that people can find offensive, at least.

The Amarr are slavers, sure. And enslave people who aren't of their culture. /However/ they're not doing it on the lines of the colour of your skin.

It'd be like calling the British racist, if they decided to invade France and enslave /everyone/ there.Culturist, perhaps?

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Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#87 - 2012-08-30 10:24:56 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



Thing is that you either get the moneys to do it right and the right people or you just make a cheapo bad scripted/effects whatever stuff bad film.

Latest examples I have in mind are Prometheus and Battleship despite bimbos and some amphetamines fans. Those could be really awesome, we're in 2012!!
Everyone remember that 5th Element when it got out? -THAT was fantastic.

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Fatbear
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#88 - 2012-08-30 10:57:42 UTC
Yokai Mitsuhide wrote:
If it ended up anything like the newer BSG I would be over joyed. TV needs more/better sci fi.


You'd be overjoyed at a series that set out as action-loaded space-combat orientated fight for survival but turns into a neo-religious dialogue on the repetitive destructive nature of mankind that doesn't involve a single combat scene (barring the final episode) for two full seasons?

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Cede Forster
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#89 - 2012-08-30 12:23:17 UTC
oh i can see it already

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Bing Khagah
Doomheim
#90 - 2012-08-30 12:35:40 UTC
Edenwood. Do it.
Skippermonkey
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#91 - 2012-08-30 12:42:45 UTC
Just imagine this as 'game of Thrones' in space

All four empires taking sides against each other (FW) while the Sansha are secretly making their plans to invade, with the occasional sub plot involving nulsec and wormholes

HBO could do it great justice.... the thing is, are the general public interested in a sci-fi series?

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Lord Ryan
True Xero
#92 - 2012-08-30 12:52:23 UTC
Judging by Rome and Game of Throwns I would say it would be awesome.

Judging by the new inventory and ISD it would probably blow.

So I guess it would be a toss up. I would by the Bluray box set regardless to support the genre. Only way to get good SciFi is pull out the wallet anytime anything halfway decent comes out.

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Virgil Travis
Non Constructive Self Management
#93 - 2012-08-30 12:52:29 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Barrak wrote:
EvE is to racist to make it to TV and if it did it would be a dumbed down version.



EVE's not really racist. Not in a way that people can find offensive, at least.

The Amarr are slavers, sure. And enslave people who aren't of their culture. /However/ they're not doing it on the lines of the colour of your skin.

It'd be like calling the British racist, if they decided to invade France and enslave /everyone/ there.Culturist, perhaps?


We do it every week, it's called the booze cruise, duty free anyone?

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Lord Ryan
True Xero
#94 - 2012-08-30 12:56:11 UTC
Gogela wrote:
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...



SciFy channel went to ****, not that it was ever very good. History channel is almost as bad, rarely anything about history. HBO does make some of the best series, all Showtime had was Weeds.

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Anslo
Scope Works
#95 - 2012-08-30 12:59:52 UTC
Pay Ian Chrisholm
Hire him a crew
Buy him a studio
Give him a year
Season 1 of Clear Skies once a week show up and ready

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Jace Errata
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#96 - 2012-08-30 13:05:39 UTC
EVE should be a Michael Bay movie.

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#97 - 2012-08-30 13:08:40 UTC
Rather than a movie based on current lore, what about an EVE prequel?

The classic story of boy meets girl, they join rocket surgery school together, struggle through major incidents between the Frandinavians and Sinorussians, get hired into a colonisation effort to new worlds on the other side of a fantastic natural wormhole. His (or her) ship goes through one day, wormhole collapses the next.

There's plenty of scope in that for drama (love triangle: bisexual French male, Nordic female, Chinese male, or perhaps a religious twist: shady cultist types "recruiting" "converts", and conflict between the nation-states and the emerging megacorporations), character development, and firmly implanting in the audiences mind that this universe doesn't play fair. Oh, and the sequels. One one side, the descent into barbarism due to the lack of critical supplies such as industrial plant. On the other side, the descent into barbarism due to a major war that left no survivors (the megacorporations started lobbing instead of lobbying).

What happened to Earth? What happened to that original star gate network and the worlds on the other side of the New Eden wormhole? My only question is whether two hours is enough time to develop a plot that involves two major factions (the Scandinavian French descendants versus the Sino-Russian accord) and two lead characters, the buildup towards a catastrophic interstellar war and the failed delivery of critical equipment to a number of colonies on the other side of the wormhole.

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Lord Ryan
True Xero
#98 - 2012-08-30 13:09:46 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
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.

The RE movies after the first are not very good. Although I keep going and seeing them, so who knows what my point is.

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Lord Ryan
True Xero
#99 - 2012-08-30 13:11:13 UTC
Aricaan wrote:
I would pay 30 bucks a month, just so I could see Steve Buscemi say pubbies every once in a while.


Steve Buscemi could play The Mittani!

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Lord Ryan
True Xero
#100 - 2012-08-30 13:15:12 UTC
Antisocial Malkavian wrote:
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*


I liked Battleship. Saw it the theater, bought the Bluray. I put up my $$$

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