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All this talk of Space Hulk movies hey, did any of you see GW's Hive Infestation? Live action Space wolf terminators against Genestealers. I was at the Games day many years ago where they showed that and another film about Dark Angels I forget the name. I’m pretty sure they were only trailers and nothing came of them but I know a few Vets with copies of Inquisitor on VHS.
IMO opinion GW will just do an improved version of Ultramamrines in 2-3 years, possibly pick up the whole Blood quest project again. .


Personally I would rather they let THQ run with Space Marine and make many sequels, I prefer a movie I am part of.

In this month's WD, it says that the Space Marine movie is availible on DVD and BluRay.

Marines are supposed to be fanatical, psycopathic killers, and the Hollywood would make them out to be emotional pousses.

i chose other because as cool as it would be to make it, its very likely that a director/ writer would change things in the warhammer universe, or give not enough plot.

Banzaimash wrote:Marines are supposed to be fanatical, psycopathic killers, and the Hollywood would make them out to be emotional pousses.

best description of a space marine ever.

*hat off to you*

Problems:

Marines in power armor with helmets can't show emotion, and therefor actors can not act.

Space Marines would actually be a hard sell to Joe 6 pack.

Way too much 40k background to explain, and way too much to explain about space marines. If everything isn't explained well marines would just look silly.

Solutions:

Center the story around IG. Writers and Hollywood love centering stories around the underdog. Joe 6 pack can understand the concept of IG with no difficulty.

I guess that the problem is that there are so many people that loathe GW that there might not be enough sales etc. to make a big budget one . It would be cool though...

I always thought the problem with this idea was GW's iron fist copyright policy.


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schadenfreude wrote:Problems:

Marines in power armor with helmets can't show emotion, and therefor actors can not act.

Space Marines would actually be a hard sell to Joe 6 pack.

Way too much 40k background to explain, and way too much to explain about space marines. If everything isn't explained well marines would just look silly.

Solutions:

Center the story around IG. Writers and Hollywood love centering stories around the underdog. Joe 6 pack can understand the concept of IG with no difficulty.

Why go for Marines? Eisenhorn or Ravenor would make a far better movie and take a lot less explaining to an uninformed audience.

Imperium good. Chaos Bad. Even creationist would get that with only a 10 - 15 minute intro.

Why not do a Horus Heresy series. GW would get loads of money and it would explain any future films.

Dan Abnett wrote Ultramarines the movie. He is a book writer, not a movie writer.

This is GW. If they made a movie they'd advertise it completely overblown as beautiful and amazing graphics, be amazing blah de blah de blah. Turns out it has poor graphics and you can only buy an exspensive collectors edition which isnt very "Collector" cus it was the only format they sold it in.

Warrior Squirrel wrote:Dan Abnett wrote Ultramarines the movie. He is a book writer, not a movie writer.

So you do a screen play of a book.

Sonophos wrote:I always thought the problem with this idea was GW's iron fist copyright policy.


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schadenfreude wrote:Problems:

Marines in power armor with helmets can't show emotion, and therefor actors can not act.

Space Marines would actually be a hard sell to Joe 6 pack.

Way too much 40k background to explain, and way too much to explain about space marines. If everything isn't explained well marines would just look silly.

Solutions:

Center the story around IG. Writers and Hollywood love centering stories around the underdog. Joe 6 pack can understand the concept of IG with no difficulty.

Why go for Marines? Eisenhorn or Ravenor would make a far better movie and take a lot less explaining to an uninformed audience.

Imperium good. Chaos Bad. Even creationist would get that with only a 10 - 15 minute intro.

But the Imperium ISN'T good. They are Nazi-spanish inquizition-KKK-witch burners dedicated to the destruction of everything that is free and good. It's supposed to be a sort of "Lesser of Two Evils" kind of thing. Making the Imperium the knights in shining armour is unfair to the fluff and the players, but the actual situation is something that joe sixpack won't understand. Combined with the special effects required, the near-impossibility of any romance, and GW's iron fist on copyrights, it's basicly never going to happen.

loota boy wrote:

Sonophos wrote:I always thought the problem with this idea was GW's iron fist copyright policy.


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schadenfreude wrote:Problems:

Marines in power armor with helmets can't show emotion, and therefor actors can not act.

Space Marines would actually be a hard sell to Joe 6 pack.

Way too much 40k background to explain, and way too much to explain about space marines. If everything isn't explained well marines would just look silly.

Solutions:

Center the story around IG. Writers and Hollywood love centering stories around the underdog. Joe 6 pack can understand the concept of IG with no difficulty.

Why go for Marines? Eisenhorn or Ravenor would make a far better movie and take a lot less explaining to an uninformed audience.

Imperium good. Chaos Bad. Even creationist would get that with only a 10 - 15 minute intro.

But the Imperium ISN'T good. They are Nazi-spanish inquizition-KKK-witch burners dedicated to the destruction of everything that is free and good. It's supposed to be a sort of "Lesser of Two Evils" kind of thing. Making the Imperium the knights in shining armour is unfair to the fluff and the players, but the actual situation is something that joe sixpack won't understand. Combined with the special effects required, the near-impossibility of any romance, and GW's iron fist on copyrights, it's basicly never going to happen.

I know the empire is uncaring conformism; you know this; the ordinary audience does not.

This would be the best twist in any 40k movie or series. Inquisitor stories would be the only way to depict it. Suits of armour marching around just won't cut it.

Love stories could easily be incorporated. Personally I always thought a series would be better than a film.

I voted no, because they would screw it up. Honestly, 40k is one of the most fluff-intensive universes out there. There's just too much that needs explaining that wouldn't work realistically in a Hollywood film. The flip side of the coin is that they barely skim the source material and just fill in the blanks themselves - there were at least a few scenes in Ultramarines: the Movie that made up complete bullgak about what certain gear could do. Apparently bolters just rip through Chaos Marine armor like it's made of tinfoil, right?

40k is just too intricate for any realistic single film to be made about it.

Maybe the Movoe Marines had vengeance rounds without gets hot!?

schadenfreude wrote:Problems: Marines in power armor with helmets can't show emotion, and therefore actors can not act.

Not true in the slightest. Voice actors actually worth their salt can do this easily, and the right body language can reinforce it.
There are a plethora of films and video games with helmeted protagonists/conversations over radio/out of shot/etc where you're in absolutely no doubt as to the emotions involved. This should never be used as an excuse for poor acting, because it doesn't excuse it.

There is however a problem with it in that it can make the individual characters harder to differentiate on screen. A lot of the time I was watching Ultramarines, it was very easy to lose track of which character (other than the obviously different Chaplain, Imperial Fist and Apothecary) was which.
A solution could be centring it around Deathwatch or Veteran marines who could have armour variants or customised wargear.

They would never be able to make the money back, very few people would watch it outside the small population that actually gives a damm about what a spacemarine is...

if the film grapics were as good as space marine game.
And also the story lines doesn't suck, and doesn't have ultramarines.
peace

I would like it, but I think they would screw up. Also, 50,000 more people joining GW. Good for their business but my local store would have no space left :(

Yes ofcourse, althoug it has to be 18+ to capture the grim dark.

Yes but only if;

Not a single detail of it is left to random people, both the story script and the set should be given to actual warhammer content writers, those who are among the core lore craft and not people who "want to innovate".


No inserting "lessons of contemporary social justice" or whatnot
No pandering, no "gender/race swaps", just 100% authenticity.

Because big budget tends to do all that exactly the other way around irritating to living daylights out of franchise fans.

(I would therefor expect that if it happened you're ending up with the emperor giving a speech about inclusion and global warming (although that would legit be hilareous now that I think of it, to the paradigm)