EVE Fiction

The scale of the fights seen and experienced in EVE Online I'm not entirely sure cinema could portray correctly.

I mean think about it.. Titans are HUGE and thats a massive understatement. The crew size of that ship alone is the population of a city. How could a movie properly portray that to an audience that has never seen or probably heard of EVE Online before?

Now with that, I don't think its impossible to create a movie about EVE Online. A great director can take the world and really run with it. I just think it'd have to be about a more intimate side of the story (like the conflict mortal humans have with capsuleers) instead of just one immensely huge battle of thousands of capsuleers and millions of mortal crew members.

I think it could work. If I were doing it....

-The story would focus on individual capsuleers, rather than alliances that would have large blob fleets. At least for the first film, while you're introducing the New Eden milieu and its concepts. (High sec, low sec, the null sec wild frontier. Capsule-controlled ships, cloning, transneural burning. Capsuleers as powerful freebooting entrepreneurs).

-The battles would be between small gangs, maybe with BCs or smaller. The hunting-and-being-hunted aspect of EVE combat could be pretty interesting in a film. Kind of like in the old submarine warfare films. Dscanning, combat probes, warping to optimal weapon range, etc.

-Combat scenes could be shown from the pod goo pilots' perspectives. I.e. camera drones views, HUD overlays sometimes when they would be useful to tell the story, or just visually interesting. Dialogue would be between pilots, not between crew members.

-Crews would get about as much attention as they do in the game-- not much. Could be seen board the ship before launch, a few brief scenes of them operating the guts of the ship during combat. But the real focus being the pod pilot, to give the impression that the crew are just hardly-remembered expendables. EVE is dark, after all.

After Film One introduces the audience to the general EVE concepts, Film Two could start introducing the racial factions and other backstory. And maybe null sec alliance wars and giant fleet battles.

Anyway, I think an EVE movie could be really, really good. There's a lot of material there for a great film. I'd hope it would be more like Blade Runner (with those kind of heavy atmospherics) than like Star Trek or Star Wars.

Yep, a great example, that is. I watched that one and I can tell I really enjoyed it. Exactly! I forgot to mention it here, but yes. It is a good example of how the game could be "storized". If you understand what I mean.

Filmatizing EvE Online will demand resources that are out of this dimension.

And I would like to explain why...
Have you ever seen a movie that are based on i.e a book and thought "That's it??" - EvE is too big and massive when it comes to all the stories. Sure you could make a movie out of each event that have happened in the game, but still that would not be enough to cover it.

However, to take it to a different angle..
Series

A great way to cover it all and you can even "milk" it for what it's worth, I would propably watch it till the end.

A very good example would be The story of Lord Hedge Part 1
I bet there's alot more out there, but this one really got me into it.

To narrow it down more and to add a base layout for a good start of a series:

A young clone is made - Decides for either Management / Warfare or both - Have a hard time and meets alot of obstacles - Struggles with flashbacks from past clones <- and from there the character in the series evolves.

And to add the little extra, We, the players, will have something to say in the series in form of forumpolls and suggestions.

My 10 cent

Yours
Ritch