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What if CCP and HBO collaborated...

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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#121 - 2012-08-31 03:34:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr Epeen
Proclus Diadochu wrote:
...to make a TV Show? C/D


It would never work.

"Why?", you ask.

Here's why.:

- You can't make a show without people.
- People will be walking in stations.
- Walking in stations causes rage.
- Rage causes forum meltdown
- Forum meltdown causes show to be nerfed to FIS only
- FIS only causes show to be cancelled after 4 episodes.

Mr Epeen Cool
Veshta Yoshida
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#122 - 2012-08-31 04:44:30 UTC
HBO? They are the ones doing the adaptiation of those wannabe-Tolkien books right?

Much rather CCP teamed up with intelligent creators, like the ones responsible for Archer on FX. That show is infinitely more entertaining and the style/language is pointed enough to convey what Eve is about (read: Eve is not about people playing dress-up .. at least not any more).

Gratuitous nudity and excessive blood spatters can only get you so far, proper writing and storytelling will take you all the way.
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#123 - 2012-09-01 11:05:07 UTC
Pick Luc Besson, tell him to script something. The film might not ever come out but if this guy puts his hands on, you can be sure whatever he gets out of it would be absolutely fantastic but also require billions of $$.

Welp, I can only dream about it.

brb
Yokai Mitsuhide
Doomheim
#124 - 2012-09-01 17:55:23 UTC
Lord Ryan wrote:
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 $$$


I just recently watched that, I thought the Aliens were really well done...too well done to be in a battleship movie.
Mysa
EVIL PLANKTON
#125 - 2012-09-01 18:01:05 UTC
Mars Theran wrote:
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


Chuck Norris - Jove

SoloFoLife! -KEKE the Merlin wonder
Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#126 - 2012-09-01 19:43:15 UTC
Akirei Scytale wrote:
Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.



Yeah, no ... See, you're thinking of Tetris.

That sort of thinking is also the same reason why most "game" based movies suck, because the people who make them try to go with the most popular games. And the most popular games really have a ****** background story to begin with.


However, we haven't had any MMO based movies yet ...

The world is a community of idiots doing a series of things until it explodes and we all die.
Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#127 - 2012-09-01 19:46:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Renan Ruivo
Veshta Yoshida wrote:
Gratuitous nudity and excessive blood spatters can only get you so far, proper writing and storytellingexplosions will take you all the way


FYP

The world is a community of idiots doing a series of things until it explodes and we all die.
Red Teufel
Calamitous-Intent
#128 - 2012-09-01 21:46:32 UTC
What would an EVE movie series be like? Gundam Wing but with DUST and EVE lore. Though i don't see how it would be so great if people could never die. crap they killing me....see you back at home braw.
Abel Merkabah
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#129 - 2012-09-01 21:55:38 UTC
Red Teufel wrote:
What would an EVE movie series be like? Gundam Wing but with DUST and EVE lore. Though i don't see how it would be so great if people could never die. crap they killing me....see you back at home braw.


It would have to tie in the economic repercussions of "death" and the fact that crew still die. Matter of fact some stories would be made all the worse for someone who couldn't die. Imagine financially ruined having to live for eternity with that failure, even better if the person had to constantly live in the shadow of the one who ruined him.

James315 for CSM 8!
Hiyora Akachi
Blood Alcohol Content
T O P S H E L F
#130 - 2012-09-02 00:28:15 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
The Jove would live in the North, beyond the wall.

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



So they have more time slots available for their ****** movies....
Cat Casidy
Percussive Diplomacy
Sedition.
#131 - 2012-09-02 05:50:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Cat Casidy
Pinstar Colton

As for the show itself, I think the best would be a comedy about a pirate gate camp in some null sec system border system. Waiting for ships to gank. Most episodes would have the pirates sitting there...with no targets, bored out of their minds. To pass the time, they start trading stories with each other. These stories would form most of the individual episodes. The tale of the dumb miner...a story about scamming someone out of millions, the ultimate corp heist... the 100 rifter capital ship kill...

Occasionally, the action would cut away from the flashbacks to show some actual action happening at the gate. To tie the whole thing together, several of the people who come through the gate happen to have had a role in previous flashbacks... thus coloring the pirates reaction to them.[/quote wrote:

[quote=Ranger 1]Step 1:

Use the existing tools and make an ongoing series of YouTube videos, with high production values and a witty and action filled script. Get some big name voice actors if at all possible. Nathan Fillion is known for doing stuff like this, and it might also interest Karl Urban (who is known for taking roles in the SciFi fantasy genre simply because he personally prefers them)... he should be done with Judge Dread now.

Step 2: Make them engaging enough that they develop a cult following. Promote them, get them in the face of the public, link them everywhere... with luck win a few awards.

Step 3: THEN talk to someone about taking it to the next level, or simply enjoy the increased attention generated from YouTube.


Put these two ideas together by tomorrow!

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Proletariat Tingtango
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#132 - 2012-09-02 06:02:01 UTC
The only game in recent memory that would translate well into a movie might be Bastion. I can't think of anything else that would survive the loss of interactivity. Although you could certainly set something in the Eve universe quite easily since you can condense most of the lore and 'story' of Eve into a few pages of text and add to it liberally to suit the needs of a narrative/plot.

For the sake of drama, it would be best to set it before the existence of pod pilots. I bet some kind of chronicle told from two different perspectives during the collapse of the Eve-gate would be really good, but if you made a movie in the most 'current' eve universe, the movie would suck and there would be no tension.

I could see something in the eve universe working, but only with more money in the budget that would ever get spent on such a thing.
Cat Casidy
Percussive Diplomacy
Sedition.
#133 - 2012-09-02 06:36:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Cat Casidy
to be fair i think a real reason, aside from whats already been said, that game movies suck is that they're telling a story that anyone who's interested in has already experienced. that and they're usually made for the sole purpose of getting (insert game name here and call it X) fans to come to the movies and nobody bothers to actually make a good movie since X already sold a bajillion copies so if they get a decent fraction of the players, bam they made their money back and then some.
I can see an eve whatever working because there is no storyline that everyone's already played and jut want to see the cinematic version of it. the whole point of eve is you can do pretty much whatever the hell you want, here's the background, here are your tool, have fun. With that mindset a writers can write any story they feel like and toss it into the eve setting and it would make sense.
The mass effect universe could probably fit well into the move/tv theme as well given the insane amounts of backstory you pick up while through them. plenty of material to work with and holes to fill in, expand on etc. And like EVE they expanded the franchise into books.

-edit- hooray for not saving my paragraphs

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ctx2007
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#134 - 2012-09-02 09:18:27 UTC
Its a sad fact as previously mentioned sci-fi tv has had a bum deal recently. The only way EVE would work would be to have vampires in it Ugh

You only realise you life has been a waste of time, when you wake up dead.
Nutbolt
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#135 - 2012-09-02 10:55:48 UTC
Didn't Sanctuary start of as a web mini-series...? Then it got 5 seasons on SyFy. Funding for a web mini-series, some global version of kickstarter so everyone can chip in? Perhaps not PLEX for Epicness though as that would crash the market as everyone would do it :)

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Lord LazyGhost
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#136 - 2012-09-02 16:18:52 UTC
animated movie like clearskys would be good. along like the final fantasy movie the spirit within awsomeness :)
Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#137 - 2012-09-02 16:52:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Paul Oliver
ctx2007 wrote:
Its a sad fact as previously mentioned sci-fi tv has had a bum deal recently. The only way EVE would work would be to have vampires in it Ugh
They're called "Blood Raiders" sheesh. P

The more I think about this the more my thoughts seem to gravitate towards a Dune sort of storyline with the whole four factions and planetary conflict theme.
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
Cat Casidy
Percussive Diplomacy
Sedition.
#138 - 2012-09-03 05:45:55 UTC
Only if we get random worms destroying peoples PI setups

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ugh zug
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#139 - 2012-09-03 06:43:54 UTC
HBO would never go with it, as most people wouldn't pay to watch it.... the better match would be netflix, or hulu.

Want me to shut up? Remove content from my post,1B. Remove my content from a thread I have started 2B.
Soldarius
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#140 - 2012-09-03 09:23:12 UTC
If I remember the lore correctly (I'm sure you'll correct me if not), the Jove introduced capsuleer technology to rebalance the Caldari/Gallente war. Caldari were losing.

Whichever it was, I think exploring the implications and effects of immortal capsuleers on interstellar warfare would make for an epic storyline.

On the other hand, I wasn't terribly impressed with the recent eve book. But I think that is just because I don't care for the author's style.

For something to be successful, it will need a decent story and decent actors. You know what this means, right? We need Samuel L. Jackson.

"Motherfuckin' snakes on a motherfuckin' spaceship, ************!"

What about Mark Hamill? I bet once they've been given some exposure to Eve, both of them would accept a role.

http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY